why blank page is open on wordpress link?

Question

I got a copy of the index.php file with a different name (profile.php) and i create a link to profile.php on the index.php file like this:

<a href ="<? php bloginfo ('template_url');?> / profile.php"> profile </ a>

But when I click on the link opens a completely blank page

White screen of death is normally a PHP error in the file. Turn on error reporting, here are some debugging options http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1080679/php-and-wordpress-debugging. Also looking at your question, what you are doing will cause chaos - copying index.php and putting it into the theme? What are you trying to achieve? — McNab, May 08 '13 at 08:28

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 08 '13 at 08:32

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You have unnecessary white spaces in the href attribute which creates the following link:

Also in your code you have <? php but it should be without white space <?php

Change your line to:

<a href ="<?php bloginfo ('template_url');?>/profile.php"> profile </ a>

answered May 08 '13 at 08:32

user850010

Can you post the generated URL here (you can skip domain part if you want). It is also possible that the link works correctly to your profile.php in your theme but that the profile.php has some error and this is the reason for the blank page. – user850010 May 08 '13 at 08:48
if profile.php has not any wordpress function its load well, but if profile.php have wordpress function show blank page – pouya May 08 '13 at 09:12
That's odd. Turn on error reporting by setting define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); in your wp-config.php .Maybe you will get some useful error information. – user850010 May 08 '13 at 09:25
Remove the whitespace between bloginfo & `(` – user2019515 May 08 '13 at 16:33

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