Day: April 20, 2006

Thanks to the very helpful geekgrrl on the WordPress.org support forums, clock is ticking once more, after being broken for a bit. All posts have their content once more.

I noted the problem this morning with this note “Post content and comments not rendering (WP 1.5.2)” and a similar post “All copy in posts has disappeared had the solution.

Deactivating the Markdown plugin, which is one of the default set in WordPress, fixed the problem immediately: all content reappeared. I’m still running v1.5.2 of WordPress. I have no idea if this affects other versions and combinations.

I don’t believe I ever activated the plugin, though it’s possible it was on by default. I’m curious whether Simon Waldman‘s experience was triggered by # of posts or is all of this somehow strangely tied to the date?

I’m going to reach out to the developer of the plugin, Michel Fortin. No blame, but maybe he can take a look at his code if similar reports confirm the cause.

Somehow, I broke my blog. All that shows up now are the headlines, categories, and timestamps. The content is still there in the database when I go to edit, but not rendering. I haven’t changed anything that I know of, but it is suspicious (maybe?) that post 1000 was the last one live. I’m making this post in a (futile?) attempt to see if post 1001 might help, while I also look directly at the database (not my expertise) and other search support forums.

When you can read this, all will be well again. How’s that for a Catch-22?

Update: working again. See next post for details.