Mark Jaquith

This issue has been fixed by 2.0.7

My solution was to set to NULL before unsetting. We do unregistering of globals in wp-settings.php, so only one line needed to change.

Works for me using the Default theme and both WP 2.0.5 and WP 2.0.6 beta 1

One thing that could be causing this is if your Blog URL is set to something that is automatically redirected. Say that your Blog URL is http://example.com/ but http://example.com/ forwards to http://www.example.com/ In that case, the form’s POST would get wiped. But you’d likely have a lot more problems than this, if that were the case.

You’re not going to be able to stop this in every instance, but you can handle it on a case-by-case basis.

First thing to do would be to check out Bad Behavior [1] which may block malicious bots from being able to access your site. The second thing is to be reactive… find out the IP or the website (ping it!) and put the following line in your site’s .htaccess file (assuming Apache here):

# block site with IP address 123.123.123.123
deny from 123.123.123.123

That will make it harder for that site to rip off your content, because it will have to be done from a different IP address than the one hosting the ripoff site.

If that fails, find out what company is hosting the site and complain to them. Threaten legal action.

You can use the list_cats hook plus some regex to do that switcheroo in a filter. No core modification needed.

Untested, but something like this should work:


function txfx_put_count_in_the_link($text) {
return preg_replace('#</a> (([0-9]+))#', ' ($1)</a>', $text;
}

add_filter('list_cats', 'txfx_put_count_in_the_link');

hm, tricky. Only thing I can think of is writing a plugin that turns the global $is_apache to FALSE any time an .htaccess write would take place (maybe checking for $_POST submissions and comparing $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] with something. This will short-circuit the .htaccess write, as it won’t attempt it for non-apache systems. I can’t promise that this won’t break something else, however.

This plugin might do the trick:

http://greghurrell.net/wp/2005/07/02/autorelated-plug-in/

You’re going to have to provide some more information.

• Which plugin?
• What changes?

Also: WP’s links (the “pretty” ones, that is) are already pretty SEO’d. WP blogs do very well in Google. What changes does this plugin make?

Perhaps the database has become corrupted. If it is telling you that you need to install, it’s not detecting and users in the users table, which would be very odd for an existing blog.