16 January, 2009

This post is in: Ramblings, Web design & development

Help! WordPress is censoring me… or is it?

I love WordPress, but this evening I encountered a very odd bug. I don’t know whether it’s WordPress itself, my database, or a combination of the two.

Basically, WordPress wouldn’t let me use the word ‘settle’. Instead it returned a 403 error. However, it does seem to be working now. Very odd.

All I could find from Google was a similar weirdness from 2005, where WordPress had problems with words that were also PHP commands. But, as far as I can tell, ‘settle’ doesn’t seem to be a PHP command. And besides, that was four years ago.

This would just be an amusing quirk, if it wasn’t for the fact that I’m considering moving our entire organisation’s website – which could include a number of separately managed microsites – over to WordPress. Suddenly breaking for no apparent reason when typing an arbitrary word is a problem: not only is there no obvious reason and therefore no easy fix (other than to use a different word), it’s quite a job to isolate the problem in the first place.

That’s quite a bit of a bummer, actually.

Ramblings,Web design & development

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