I found a strange behavior in my blog after my recent upgrade to WordPress 2.1. Every time some one posts a comment the technorati tags for that particular posts were disappearing. After some debugging I found that it was caused by a plugin which I was using and not by WordPress itself.
And a little bit of searching let me to a thread in WordPress support forum, where some other people also were facing the same problem. With a little more digging I found an excellent explanation by Mark, where he describes the exact problem and also the solution. I am not going to explain the problem here because, Mark has already explained it in a very simple and precise manner and I don’t think I can do anything better.
The plugin which I was using to store my technorati tags was Bunny’s Technorati tags (to which I migrated some time back from Simple tags). I incorporated Mark’s fix and re-deployed the plugin and everything is working fine now.
I am going to update the plugin’s page at wp-plugin.org and meanwhile you can also bunny-tags.zip. Please note that this plugin was developed by Stephanie Booth and the full credit goes to her and I have just updated it to work with WordPress 2.1.
Let me know if you still face any issue with it. Happy upgrading 😉
Thanks for catching this! Mind if I incorporate your fix in 0.6?
Oh. Just downloaded your zip. It’s already 0.6! Wonderful.
I’ll make it available on my end too if you don’t mind.
Right, can’t edit the wiki anymore, so I did change the file on my server. Thanks a lot for this. Now I need to try and understand what you did and fix Basic Bilingual, which probably has the same problem!
Hi Stephanie Booth,
Welcome to my blog. 🙂
I definitely won’t mind you updating the plugin and making it available in your blog. 😉
I will try to update it in the wp-plugins.org site once they allow me to edit it.
Cheers,
Sudar
Hi Sudar, I am planning to start with PHP5.0. So, if u have any good ebook, please mail it to my id.
Hi Ramesh,
I don’t have any ebooks as such, but the following tutorials could be useful.
http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials.php
http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/627
http://www.php.net/manual/en/
Cheers,
Sudar
Sudar, how do you get the spiffy browser & operating system icons with posts?
Is there a particular plugin?
Thanks,
David Wilkinson
http://www.techzi.net/
David,
Yes I am using a plugin called WordPress Browser Detection Plugin for that. YOu can get the plugin at http://priyadi.net/archives/2005/03/29/wordpress-browser-detection-plugin/
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Sudar
Thanks for the quick response Sudar! Very nice stuff… 😉
David Wilkinson
http://www.techzi.net/
wp expert 😀
Aswin,
If you did check out my new year resolutions then you will get the clue. 😉
Cheers,
Sudar
I remember 🙂
Thank You. I had a lot of trouble with this. But thanks to the modified plugin my WordPress works fine again.
thanks for doing this!
Hey,
thanx for the zip file, I have already downloaded it and installed – looks good from the first glance. Will need some more time to examineit more carefully – will try to get back with detailed review asap…
Sudar — thanks again, because I think that you catching this is also helping me fix my basic bilingual plugin, which has the same problem: http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/18/nasty-problem-with-basic-bilingual-plugin/
My only problem is that I’m not sure how to reproduce the problem, so not sure either how to check that it is indeed fixed.
Do meta values disappear when comments in moderation are published? When people post comments? I can’t figure it out.
@Stephanie,
Are you still facing the problem with your Plugin or is it fixed now?