I am currently building a custom Wordpress theme for my rugby team. I just noticed something and I can't work out whether this has been happening for a while and I have only just noticed it or it is a new thing.

It would appear that any page address without a slash at the end of the address renders a white screen of death.

For example

(url)/fixtures/

works fine but

(url)/fixtures

Gives me a WSOD

I am currently building a custom Wordpress theme for my rugby team. I just noticed something and I can't work out whether this has been happening for a while and I have only just noticed it or it is a new thing.

It would appear that any page address without a slash at the end of the address renders a white screen of death.

For example

(url)/fixtures/

works fine but

(url)/fixtures

Gives me a WSOD

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• urls

Share Improve this question asked May 27, 2014 at 14:11 Ben WainwrightBen Wainwright 12911 silver badge77 bronze badges 2

• Have you tried removing the trailing slash in your permalink structure from Settings->Permalinks and then save the changes? d.pr/i/X2sR – TomHarrigan Commented May 27, 2014 at 14:14
• 2 Typical behavior is a redirect from slash-less to slashed. Do you have this trouble with a buncled theme like Twenty Fourteen and with plugins disabled? – s_ha_dum Commented May 27, 2014 at 14:41

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I solved my own problem by debugging all the different functions.php includes.

One of the files had some whitespace at the beginning.

I had the same issue, turns out i had ?> at the end of functions.php that was NOT needed. Deleted it and all is fixed.