This must be a bug introduced in WP 2.8.2 that attempts to fix the XSS vulnerability in comment author's URLs.
When I click "edit" on comments with existing comment author's URL, the "Edit Comment" form comes up with an empty "website" field. And when I save the modification, the site URL is no longer there.
Have you tried:
- deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
- switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-related problems.
It's not plugins. It's the WP admin itself. It's the admins "Edit Comments" form that loses the URL of the commenter.
Anyway, I tried to disable all plugins and it wouldn't help.
It's indeed a bug.
I checked the change in the source files and found the bug in /wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php file.
In the previous version they had a variable $url
$url = get_comment_author_url();
But in WP 2.8.2, they removed that line but still use the (now undefined) $url variable as a value of the "URL" edit box:
<td><input type="text" id="newcomment_author_url" name="newcomment_author_url" size="30" class="code" value="<?php echo esc_attr($url); ?>" tabindex="3" /></td>
Not sure how to submit it to WordPress developers. I checked the latest SVN version and the bug is still there.
Raised for you as https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10466
Thanks. Looks like the bug fix will be available in 2.8.3
Posted 3 years ago #
I too have just noticed this problem. I tried on other blogs I have, and believe it's a bug. Thanks.
Posted 3 years ago #
I cannot edit comments at all after upgrading to 2.8.2.
I deactivated all plugins, switched to the default theme, and I am still unable to edit comments.
As an aside, I am also unable to add tags to posts. I can add them, but when I do "update post" or "publish", they disappear again and are not added after all.
Any advice on how I can remedy these?
Posted 3 years ago #
Nevermind.
I used the solution given on this forum post: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/275443?replies=9
It worked.
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