Post preview stops working when I use affiliate links in content

  • Resolved kberkery

    (@majorsky)


    12 years, 7 months ago

    I’m pulling out my hair on this one. Here’s my site: http://ilovehorses.net/blog/

    I wrote a 1300-word article in WP, and everything worked fine in post preview. Then I began monetizing it by putting affiliate links in the content. After the 6th affiliate link I created, any other affiliate links in the content cause the post preview to stop working like this: The post preview gives me a regularly formatted WP page (with my theme’s look and feel) *except* all the editorial content disappears. Any content between the two “Share/Save” white bars (Add to Any plugin) is gone.

    I published the article to see if the problem lies only with the post preview, but the published article was also blank between the “Share/Save” white bars. So just publishing the article doesn’t solve the problem either.

    I’ve tried deactivating plugins, I upgraded to the latest version of WP, and I’ve tried shortening the affiliate URLs, none of which worked. If I remove all or some of the affiliate links from the article, then the post preview works again.

    I discovered that my theme, Amazing Grace, has a hyphen in the directory name on the server and that used to cause problems with older versions of WP, but from what I can tell that shouldn’t be an issue anymore. I haven’t come across any bugs like this one associated with Amazing Grace.

    Anyone have any ideas why I’m having this annoying problem? Thanks.

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  • Thread Starter kberkery

    (@majorsky)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    After digging on Google for days to find others who’ve had this problem, I discovered this WP bug:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-wordpress-page-goes-blank-if-more-than-20-captions

    Even though I only had 6 or 7 photos with captions in an article, this appears to be the problem I’m having. I made the change onepack (in the forum post above) recommended in wp_config.php:

    @ini_set(‘pcre.backtrack_limit’, 1000000);
    /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

    I’ve been trying to break my article since that change and I haven’t succeeded. I think my confounding problem is solved! *crossing fingers*

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