Tom Fotherby

We just upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and “Lightbox plus Colorbox” (Version 2.7.2) fails. A problematic regexp.

This issue is affected us too when we reply to a comment from the main comments page in the dashboard. WordPress gives a message in red:

Notice: post_permalink is deprecated since version 4.4! Use get_permalink() instead. in /var/www/pphblog_sandbox/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3573

There is only 1 usage of this method in W3 Total Cache:


plugins/w3-total-cache/lib/W3/SharedPageUrls.php
111: $post_link = post_permalink($post_id);


Interesting, thanks for pointing out that the problem is with the one page I was checking and the other pages seem ok. I’ve no idea why one link works and the other doesn’t but clearly it is not a issue with your plugin so I apologise for wasting your time.

* OK: https://m.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xeniosblog.com%2Finterview-bbc-2-super-rich-us-documentary%2F&sid=0&referrer=social_plugin&_rdr (links to https://www.xeniosblog.com/interview-bbc-2-super-rich-us-documentary/)
* KO: https://m.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xeniosblog.com%2Fwere-getting-skued%2F&sid=0&referrer=social_plugin&_rdr (link not found)

Maybe it only occurs in the UK?

> Have you got a link to an example please?

This is the url that I’m being redirected to: https://m.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xeniosblog.com%2Fwere-getting-skued%2F&sid=0&referrer=social_plugin&_rdr – if you try it you can see it doesn’t work.

I totally understand this is a Facebook bug, but if we could edit the sharer.php url in the WordPress plugin admin page, we could workaround it.

Hi David,

1) Find a site with “Simple Share Buttons Adder” installed.
2) On a mobile phone, browse to the site and click the facebook sharer icon.
3) Receive a Error from Facebook.

This question was answered on the new WordPress stackexchange site: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/5/am-i-allowed-to-license-my-wordpress-theme-under-the-agpl.

The short answer is no you are not allowed to use the aGPL license for themes.

I asked matt this question on this blog: https://ma.tt/2010/07/theme-are-gpl-too/#comment-482312

His response:

> I think they should be GPL as well, but you should check with the FSF.

I’m not sure how to check with the FSF, they don’t seem to have a Forum.

The GPL kicks in only when software is distributed, hence why so many websites can use open-source software like jQuery without becoming open-source themselves. Being acquired is different from distribution (otherwise the Facebooks of this world couldn’t be worth so much).

FYI: I fixed this problem by looking in wp-config.php in the root directory for my wordpress 2.5.1 install and noticing there was no definition for AUTOSAVE_INTEVAL. I added this:

define(‘AUTOSAVE_INTEVAL’, 600);

Afterwards, no more flicker. No more killing my server.

Just to amend my previous comment. The browser doesn’t make a difference. I tried IE, firefox 2 and firefox 3 and they all give the flickering Save/Publish buttons and bombard the server with save requests. My 2.5.1. wordpress site is unusable! Surely this is a wider problem for more people?

I’m having the same problem. The Save and Publish buttons flicker and I think a tonne of autosaves are being sent to the server because the fan suddenly starts up and the machine gets overloaded and dies.
Wordpress is installed on Ubuntu 8.04 but I think the problem could be in the browser I’m using (Firefox 3 RC).

Can Anyone verify?

I have the same problem with wordpress 2.0.6. It happens when I look at archives or categories if there is a large number of posts. The first page shows a “previous entries” link but once you go to that page the “previous entries” link disappears so you can’t see the full list of posts. It’s really annoying!

I have edited the timestamp on the majority of my posts – I wonder if this is causing the problem.

Can anyone help?