Automattic CEO Toni Schneider was on a recent edition of WallStrip, and -- in a rare example of humility in the current bubble -- admits that Web 2.0 hasn't lived up to expectations.
As an editorial note, I use a privately-hosted WordPress installation to run this site. Extensible, easy to manage, full of third-party solutions and reliable. Long story short: a big thanks to Toni and the band (watch the video) for the software coming from development. Learn more.
So if you have been around recently, you've noticed some posts with empty bodies. This comes from a WordPress bug that apparently can't handle leading periods added by my mail server. In case anyone else runs into this problem, namely when you submit a post and the body content fails to show, take a look at this patch for the solution.
All that needs to be done is replacing lines 367-379 of <wp-installation-root>/wp-includes/class-pop3.php with this code:
while ( !ereg("^\.\r\n",$line))
{
$line = fgets($fp,$buffer);
if (preg_match("/^\s+\S+/", $line) && $count > 0)
{
$MsgArray[$count-1] .= $line;
continue;
}
if ((ereg("^\.\r\n",$line)) || (empty($line)))
{
break;
}
//Strip any extra leading periods and store the ...