Darn! An Intruder in My Blog Again

19 Mar 2007 (Mon)

SOMEONE SNEAKED into my blog and turned my “Insight#4: Of Alexa, Dmoz & Technorati” post private!

Intruder in March 2007

Who’s that? Why did s/he do that? How did s/he do that? How to stop her/him from doing the same thing again?

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Posted by J.K. in Open Source, Problems, Technology | 5 Comments |

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  1. Marios Alexandrou says:
    March 19th, 2007 at 5:02 am

    That’s a WordPress quirk. I’ve done it to myself several times. I haven’t quite figured out how it happens, but it seems to happen when I’m doing a lot of maintenance i.e. opening multiple posts in multiple tabs, going back and forth with the back button, etc.

    If I had to guess I’d say that some sequence of events resets the post status radio buttons and when you save you end up saving the post as private.

    Any chance you made changes to the post after you first published it?

  2. J.K. says:
    March 19th, 2007 at 8:36 am

    I did make some changes. However, did not open multiple posts in multiple tabs, going back and forth with the back button, etc.

    Actually, I make changes to most of my posts many times because it’s an occupational hazard. I have a strong technical communication background. So, I often make editorial changes upon re-reading my posts, e.g. correction of typo, spelling or grammar; insertion of a little more information to make things clearer, sometimes even shifting text around a little.

    However, each time I think an intruder has come in, the posts that were turned off seem to be the more sensitive ones.

    Hmmm….

  3. TedFox says:
    March 19th, 2007 at 2:23 pm

    this is an acknowledged bug in wordpress. Basically if you are editing a post, and if you reload the post edit page, the post status will change from public to private (and vice versa) They are still trying to figure out how to fix it

  4. J.K. says:
    March 19th, 2007 at 2:29 pm

    I know what you mean. Have seen posts on these before myself.

    However, see also my post in a WordPress Support forum two months ago. (1) A weird problem: “When I tried to edit these two posts, the network simply took forever to display the contents. However, when I clicked on other parts of WordPress, there was no such problem.” (2) No moderator stepped in to say what you and Marios have said.

    In this case, however, perhaps it’s a little grey.

  5. Adam says:
    August 13th, 2007 at 11:31 pm

    I’ve had this problem a couple times as well. I think its a WP error not someone sneakily trying to make your posts private

 

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