[wp-testers] Posting with wp-admin/sidebar.php fails

[Ryan Boren]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Mistah P <mistahp.testers at gmail.com> wrote:
> When attempting to publish a post or save a draft with
>  wp-admin/sidebar.php, the action fails and WP shows a simple error
>  page stating "Your attempt to add this post has failed." and then
>  links back to sidebar.php saying "Please try again." This occurs with
>  2.5RC2 and previously occurred with RC1 as well. Is that a nonce check
>  failing?

Fixed in trunk.

>  The "look and feel" of sidebar.php, and the lack of a tag input field,
>  makes it seem as if this file was left behind in development some time
>  ago, but I can understand how it might still be around for legacy
>  support. But if that's the case, if it's there for legacy support...
>  shouldn't it still work?

It often gets forgotten.  It works now, but it is still ugly and
lacking tags.  Maybe someone will adopt it for 2.6.

Ryan