Title: Problems editing posts
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problems editing posts

 *  [gregorsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregorsmith/)
 * (@gregorsmith)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-editing-posts/)
 * Posting new posts is no problem, but if I try to edit it I get these errors
    
   Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: php_hostconnect: connect failed in
   C:\Domains\scamcity.co.uk\wwwroot\journal\wp-includes\functions.php on line 870
   Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to geourl.org:80
   in C:\Domains\scamcity.co.uk\wwwroot\journal\wp-includes\functions.php on line
   870 Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\Domains\
   scamcity.co.uk\wwwroot\journal\wp-includes\functions.php on line 870 Fatal error:
   Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\Domains\scamcity.co.uk\wwwroot\
   journal\wp-settings.php on line 75 Any ideas? Before you ask, I’ve not edited
   any of those files ever… So I dunno

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-editing-posts/#post-72509)
 * Looks like a hosting problem, not a wp one.
    Email your host with all the details.
 *  Thread Starter [gregorsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregorsmith/)
 * (@gregorsmith)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-editing-posts/#post-72538)
 * I removed the ping geourl lines in post.php and functions.php and everything 
   is working fine now
    So geourl was the problem

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [gregorsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregorsmith/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-editing-posts/#post-72538)
 * Status: not resolved

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