[Resolved] White Flash While Page Loads

[Josh]

I am getting a white screen flashing on every page load. I tried disabling all of the plugins (except GM premium) and the white flash still occurs. With the GP child theme disable the flash goes away. Right now I have the child theme deactivated so the white flash doesnt happen.

Here’s the gist of it below:

– Two website with the same theme and child theme active
– One experiences a flash of a white screen after the page loads
– We disabled all other plugins and the flash remains
– We disabled the child theme and the flash goes away

[David]

Hi there,

do you have any functions or stylesheets in the child theme?

[Josh]

no, they have all been commented out

[Tom]

If it’s only happening with the child theme, it means something in the child theme must be firing.

Can you take a backup of your current child theme and then add a completely blank child theme? Then you can re-add things one by one until the flash comes back.

[Josh]

This is the code in the child theme – https://gist.github.com/joseph-farruggio/cefbb198788a20b114260132e2af0564

[Leo]

So when you remove that code, or use a blank child theme as Tom suggested, the issue no longer exists?

[Josh]

Correct

[Tom]

You’re safe to remove that code from your child theme. Just be sure to leave this part:

<?php
/**
 * GeneratePress child theme functions and definitions.
 *
 * Add your custom PHP in this file. 
 * Only edit this file if you have direct access to it on your server (to fix errors if they happen).
 */

That being said, that code definitely shouldn’t be causing any issues. It shouldn’t actually do anything at all unless you’re using a RTL language.

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