Select all and copy before you try to publish anything!
Update: Apparently it’s not eating them, just holding on to them for a few hours before letting anyone see what they say…
Select all and copy before you try to publish anything!
Update: Apparently it’s not eating them, just holding on to them for a few hours before letting anyone see what they say…
WordPress would not be the most popular and widely used software in this category if there were really any issues of this sort. No one in the WP IRC channel on Freenet, many of whom are WP developers, knew anything about it. There is nothing in the WP forums that I can find, covering several years of threads, about it.
What’s almost certainly happening is that you’ve got a security issue on your PC. What happens when you connect to the site, like any site that requires login authentication, is that the site asks for a “cookie”, which contains records of previous logins, and it is then left to the browser to send its cookie for that site across the web for authentication.
For registered users, the cookie contains your login/password data. That’s why you can connect to a site you’re registered on, and you will be automatically logged in. An invisible handshaking process has taken place between the site and the browser connecting to it.
If, instead of posting something you’ve just written, you’re kicked back to the login page, then you’ve got a poorly configured PC. However you’ve got it set up, keep these things in mind. If you’re running Winblows, you only need one firewall. ONE FIREWALL! More than one will cause more problems than they solve. If you are using non-XP or pre-Service Pack 2 XP, then use Zone Alarm’s free version (the small, home type, not the big corporate type), and make sure the security settings are on their most reasonable level, not the most secure. If you’re running XP fully updated with SP2, then you have Microsloth’s firewall, and it is fine. Remove any other firewalls, such as ZAP or whatever the case may be. Run one antivirus program and one antispyware program. AVG antivirus installs easily, updates itself, and is free. Microsloth Defender (used to be Giant Antispyware) is available for free from Microsloth’s website. It also updates itself and both applications run in the background. If you’re using a router with a built-in firewall, then you don’t need one on your PC.
Now, I know what some of you are thinking. “He didn’t mention Norton Antivirus”. That’s right, I didn’t. NAV and all Symantec products are an IT industry joke. My friends and I refer to Norton Systemworks as “Norton ComputerKiller” and Norton Personal Firewall as “Norton InternetKiller”. I’ve heard of people who installed Systemworks, and that was the last time they saw their desktop. In my Advanced PC Hardware class last semester, we spent copious amounts of time laughing at the fools who still use the Norton software (yes, we’re a-holes), as the teacher told us numerous horror stories about it. Many years ago I tried NPF, and it stopped my Direct3D acceleration from working. NAV identifies all kinds of harmless things as “viruses”, and lets many viruses through, not to mention how it interferes with other applications and uses a hideous amount of your precious system resources to run. And it’s not free (hacking it, which is a complete waste of time, is troublesome, time-consuming and highly annoying, much like much like all Symantec software). So, it’s expensive, but at least it doesn’t work.
If you’ve had the misfortune of installing Systemworks, guess what? unless you blow away XP and reinstall from scratch, you probably can’t get rid of it. It’s buried so deeply in the registry (the gigantic database of settings and options that Winblows uses to keep track of things) that, for all intents and purposes, it can’t be expunged.
Symantec’s market share has been steadily declining since, a few years ago, its software mistakenly opened all 65k ports simultaneously on all routers worldwide (exposing the internet to an unheard-of security risk). Unfortunately, because of its partnership deals, NAV and some other Norton software comes preinstalled on many new PCs.
So, to summarize; Don’t be surprised if you get rid of NAV and, suddenly, your PC works a lot better.
Stress does eat comments. It has happened to me a couple of times.
Tim,
It’s the damn spam filter. After it screws you on the comment, go to site admin and it’s at the bottom it say 417 so far or something. click there and tell it “not spam.” It’ll post.