Where Has All The Content Gone?

Saturday, August 12th 2006

I would like to apologise to all of you who came here looking for documentation, plugins, or just a read. It seems that I screwed up when trying to add, what I call, "quick admin links" to posts. It's just some links that allow you to delete/edit comments and/or posts. Unfortunately I did the following with the "the_content" filter:

if (!current_user_can('edit_post', $post->ID))
    return;

Of course, that meant that all of you who were not logged in to my site, could not see any post nor comment contents, while I could see them just fine. And this brings up a good point. When using filters, remember to return the original content passed to your function, or you'll end up like me, contentless.

Here's what I should have done and now have done:

if (!current_user_can('edit_post', $post->ID))
    return $content;

Again, sorry to all who came looking for content.

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Comment by Will

2006-08-14 01:51:59

Hey,

I have done that a few times. lol Even worse, I deleted all members once, simply because I screwed up the where clause of an sql statement. he-he Thankfully I love backups.

Take Care,

Will

Comment by James

2006-08-16 08:56:42

You need an RSS feed! And if you have one, I need it more visible!

Great work m8, helping me through college.

Comment by WebtrafficJunkie

2006-08-17 19:42:56

Thanks for posting the mistake that you made, now I will have a better chance of not doing that myself. Thanks for the information!!

Comment by Bex

2006-09-04 23:23:57

;-)

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