Edits to some posts won’t save

  • Resolved hunsford

    (@hunsford)


    15 years, 11 months ago

    I have about 900 posts, and edits to roughly half of them simply won’t save. No matter what I do — add categories, change text, change title, change author, change excerpt, add tags, change publish date, etc. — the changes don’t save after I click Update Post.

    Instead, the page refreshes and WordPress displays a Post Updated message, but my changes aren’t there. The last edited date is unchanged, and no new post revision record is listed. If I preview before saving, the preview does not include my changes.

    It’s all the more confusing because not all posts are affected. I cannot identify any commonality among the posts that are affected. Some have been created natively in WP; others have been imported. They span many categories. Some have excerpts; some don’t. Most have tags; but some don’t. I can’t see a pattern.

    I’ve tried editing as admin, and also as a user with admin rights. I’ve tried deactivating all plugins. I’ve tried logging out and logging back in. I’ve tried changing settings, including back to default permalinks. I’ve tried both FF and IE 7. I’ve tried rebooting. I’ve tried using a different computer. I’ve even tried using a different ISP. (Yes, I’m grasping at straws, but I’m getting desperate.)

    I can save changes to categories, tags, users, settings, etc. Only posts seem to be affected. For the most part, I can create new posts, although sometimes my new post “saves” without the text or categories.

    Does anyone have any ideas?

    PHP 5.2.5
    MySQL 5.0

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  • Thread Starter hunsford

    (@hunsford)

    I finally figured out what the posts had in common: apostrophes. Any post with an apostrophe wouldn’t save. This turned out to be due to one of the changes that we’d made in wp-db.php in line 429 to correct another error when saving user profiles (you can read more here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/217836?replies=15).

    We’ve changed it back, so we’re back to being unable to save user profiles, but at least I can save posts again.

    I am having the same problem, but apostrophes don’t seem to be the problem. My old posts are fine, but suddenly, my new posts wont’ save. I can hit the save button and only part of the post remains, either the title or the actual post. But the tags, categories are erased once I hit save. I have disabled one plug in at a time and retried, but no change. Any ideas?

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