Scaring the hell out of myself

August 9, 2006 in Blog news by Ben | 5 comments

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.

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5 comments

  1. ESC’s avatar

    ESC on August 9, 2006 at 7:43 pm

    try autometa. it suggests tags based on the content of your post, and you can edit and add your own.

  2. Katie’s avatar

    Katie on August 10, 2006 at 9:34 am

    Doh! Good luck fixing it!

  3. peek317537’s avatar

    peek317537 on August 10, 2006 at 10:28 am

    I just got back from vaca, did the tapes arrive? Keeping fingers crossed.

  4. Ben’s avatar

    Ben on August 10, 2006 at 9:25 pm

    Yes! Did you get my e-mail?

  5. peek317537’s avatar

    peek317537 on August 11, 2006 at 7:46 am

    Well, I’m home and not at work so I’m sure it will be there when I go to work on Monday. Glad they arrived, hope she likes them.

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