[wp-testers] Add comments to the posts will drop custom field of the posts?

[Mark Jaquith]

On Jan 26, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Ryan Boren wrote:

> Curious.  The change in behavior isn't intentional, as far as I
> recall.  If anyone can track down what 2.1 is doing to break old
> expectations, let us know and maybe we can address it in 2.1.1.

I installed Jerome's Keywords and experienced the behavior.  The  
problem is this:

1. Jerome's Keywords always assumes that it was able to successfully  
insert its field into the edit form.
2. If the edit_post hook is called in a circumstance where the plugin  
was NOT able to insert its field into the edit form, it assumes that  
the user wanted to delete all keywords. Thus, the plugin deletes all  
the keywords.
3. Commenting in 2.1 calls wp_update_comment_count(), which runs the  
edit_post hook.

While plugin authors are definitely to blame for assuming that  
"doesn't exist" is the same as "exists and is empty," we might want  
to consider using an alternative hook for announcing that the comment  
count has been updated for a post.

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3699

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