Category Archives: WordPress

GPC Magic Quotes in WordPress is Compulsory

I just updated my Sticky Post and Post Footer plugins. A few people had told me that quotes in their text were backslashed.
That struck me as odd since I had done a get_magic_quotes_gpc() and stripslash() of all $_GET and $_POST variables.
What puzzled me even more was that their PHP magic_quotes_gpc option was […]

‘Categories’ returns 500 Internal Server Error

That’s right, folks. Another inexplicable error courtsey of WordPress :).
Every page loads perfectly except for Manage → Categories.
Not only would I get the “500 Internal Server Error”, my Debian server would give the following message:
glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0×08a11520 ***
I figured it couldn’t be my server since everything else worked fine, so it […]

XML Error in WordPress RSS Feeds

My RSS feeds started to act weird this evening.
The FireFox browser gave this error when I tried to view the feed.
“XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity … Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>”
The problem was caused by one of my plugins that inserted a blank line at the top […]