fullworks

Thanks, I’ll get in to that

fyi, in case others tumble here, there is a hot fix plugin now here for the 4.3 bug

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp33423-hotfix/

This is a bad bad issue created by 4.3. Like many others I was going mad with tracking this down. I’d recently moved servers on one of my sites and I thought that might be the issue.

Many thanks to those that contributed to the fix, it worked fine and I am grateful.

But why isn’t there a generic 4.3.1 fix released yet? I have over a hundred sites on a variety of hosts and manually checking which are blasting the poor hosts to death and fixing them is not something I relish.

That may well work nicely. Its a long time since I coded this, so I can’t recall why I was using preg_match rather than looking at the queries.

It could be because I coded it based on published htaccess solution e.g.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^/?author=([0-9]*)

Which work to some extent (although they break admin)

If you have solutions I’ll happily incorporate them