WordPress 2.9: your attempt to edit this post has failed

  • Upgraded to 2.9 and also have this error when I try to save a draft of a new post:
    Create new post
    Add Title and some text.
    Save Draft.
    “Your attempt to edit this post has failed. Please try again”

    Going to the dashboard, the autosave appears to have saved the drafted posts. If I preview those posts, or add info then save draft or preview it is successful. Just the initial ‘save draft’ after creating a post is failing.

    If I create a new post it appears autosave is firing more than once, and then is hanging on “Saving Draft…”

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  • I solved my issue but needed to disable the auto-save function. The error is definitely related to auto-save. Although this is a nice feature in theory I think I can live without it.

    If anyone else has had no luck resolving the error by disabling plugins and doesn’t mind disabling the auto-save here is what to do:

    1. open the file post-new.php found in the wp-admin folder
    2. find the line that says wp_enqueue_script(‘autosave’); and type // in front of it to turn it into a comment rather than a command (this way you can reenable the feature later if you decide to)
    3. save the file and replace the old one on your ftp client

    Could be that “autosave” requires server config that has “safe mode off”?
    Is there any mentioning that 2.9.1 prefers servers which have “safe mode off”?

    @pfmrinteract: yes, i’m experiencing this problem with no Twitter Tools installed.

    WP version is 2.9.1
    PHP version is 5.1.2
    Apache version is 2.0.55

    Hi I am also experiencing this issue without Twitter Tools installed. Any solutions to this yet? Seems like a bit of a shoddy update from WordPress to me ??

    I had the same problem running WP 2.9.1 with the WP to Twitter plugin, the blank page after publishing a post. Deactivating the plugin eliminated the problem.

    IT seems to me the problem is with WP’s interaction with Twitter posting, since it’s reproducible with two different Twiter plugins.

    Anyone got a solution for people who DO NOT have the twitter tools plugin?

    Thanks, updating my php version worked!

    Upgrading to php 5 worked for me too. I’m not using Twitter Tools, but am using Tweet Blender, Tweet This and Twitter Publisher – enabling any 2 of these caused a “Your attempt to edit this post has failed” on a new post. Updating to php 5 meant I could post things again.

    just to add another example about this silly bug.
    I’ve a mu, with different sites on it. I’ve done same configuration on two of them, one works the second one provides the error on posting.
    I’ve tried removing plugins and enabling them one by one (I’ve no twitter plugin installed). At the end I’ve re-enabled all the plugin and the posting works again.

    This probably won’t contribute much, but I also am having this problem WITHOUT ever having ever heard of Twitter Tools, and I AM running PHP5. I have a dozen other plugins, though, but I’m too scared to deactivate them all.

    I really have to set up a test environment one of these days…

    hi , all
    i’ve same problem during upgrade to wp-2.9.2 , I deactivated allplugins, and upgrade successfully. thank’s to all of you. see you.

    regards,
    https://www.all-publisher.com

    I use WPMU 2.9.1 and buddypress 1.2 and got the error
    The method in this post worked for me
    https://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/02/wordpress-your-attempt-to-edit-this-post-has-failed/

    So true @drokkon I really have to set up a test environment one of these days…

    Just a quick update: searched all the files within my wordpress install for “JSON,” and found that Topsy Retweet was also referencing this library that was a suspected culprit. Disabled Topsy, but the problem is still there!

    It was the twitter tool that did this to me using MySQL 4 on another Blog MySQL 5 and the same twitter tool no problems… time to update datebase

    This is a problem that has occurred for people all the way back to 2.5.x. @pfmrinteract up a ways described the fix I applied when I got this problem with 2.8.x, and that is disabling autosave in post_new.php located in wp-admin. The fix is to disable the function via commenting it out with //

    Problem is, I just upgraded to 2.9.2 and the problem has returned, even with autosave being disabled.

    Also, no Twitter tools here

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