2007.05.03
WordPress Geo Plugin Snafu
For a couple weeks now I’ve noticed that the page I use to write posts to this site wasn’t loading completely. The section that allows me to upload pictures or add custom fields was missing! Today I finally decided to start digging into why this was happening, and I isolated the problem as something within the Geo plugin.
Naturally I started Googling to see if I could find someone else who had the same problem and had found a solution. Unfortunately no solutions seem forthcoming.
The problem from what I can see (I’m not a PHP coder so this is educated guess work) is that in the file edit-form-advanced.php the code <?php do_action('edit_form_advanced'); ?> should pull in data and fields from plugins. Indeed the Geo plugin seems to have a hook function edit_form_advanced($not_used). I thought the “$not_used” was a clue but even when I pull it out things aren’t better.
This bug trac seems to indicate it might be a problem with PHP itself and mentions a problem with PHP 5.2.0 which was supposedly fixed in 5.2.1… but my host is running that already. The ticket also recommends using the latest cache.php include for WordPress but there was no love there.
I’m running the latest version of the Geo plugin (1.9.1) and have confirmed this behaviour in WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.2. Unfortunately I’ve only been able to test this on PHP 5.2.1 (I have no idea when my hosting provider upgraded). If anyone has any clues as to what could be happening I would love to know!
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- douglas.nerad » WordPress Geo Plugin Working Again says (June 3rd, 2007 at 12:44:43 )
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