Well, I figured out why my blog was getting all “blogger” on me.

I use a plugin called “Ultimate Tag Warrior”. This is how I put handy tags on the posts. Well, when WordPress upgraded to 2.04 last week or so (and said it was a required upgrade due to security issues), I upgraded.

Guess what? Any post that didn’t already have a tag suddenly got a blank tag whenever somebody looked at it. “Somebody”, I think, includes robots like Google, because by the time I looked at the database I had over 250,000 empty entries. That’s 250,000 blank tags attached to posts.

So, I did an SQL thingamajig and nuked. them. all.

That was the “gulp” moment, like what if I’m removing more than just the blank entries?

So far, so good.

(I’d put a tag on this post but I’ve disabled the plugin for the moment until it gets sorted out)

Edit: fixed it, they updated the plugin.