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WordPress Troubles, Solved

Those of you who blog with WordPress will understand this. The rest of you will not understand this. Just go on with your lives, citizens.

I installed two plugins last night, that apparently don’t get along.

1: Title Capitalization

2: Maxblog’s Ping Optimizer

The combo is apparently an issue. What that does is this;  Which someone posts to the blog it goes out and Google and other info services to come and crawl the site. Trouble is if I go back and edit the post for a typo, it goes back and pings the list of info services again. They tend not to like being hit very often like that for no reason. The Optimizer, when it’s working right, likes to keep the pinging of the servers down to a dull roar, by pinging only the first time you post something, more or less.

The Title Capitalization plugin is supposed to filter post titles so that they have proper caps, the way, say, a newspaper would.

Where these two get into an argument is that what the Optimizer sees is the altered value, and so when it goes out looking for a POST of that filtered value, of course it doesn’t exist, being instead actually stored in the unfiltered version of the title.

Who knew?

Well, now YOU do.

The upshot of this is that we were dwn for a shot time while I untangled the database mess. We seem to be OK now, though.