September 26th, 2006Unable to edit one of my wordpress pages
Strangely, I can no longer update my About page. I haven’t tried to update it since months and I’ve upgraded my wordpress to the latest version one not long ago. It’s only now that I realise that I cannot edit my About page any more. After I press Save, the page is redirected to post.php instead.
My other pages can be edited successfully. That’s so strange. I had to edit my About page via the database instead but still, it’s really troublesome to have to do that each time I want to edit my About page.
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I have edited my About page via the database and deleted all the text and saved the page. Then , I went in my wordpress ‘Manage pages’ page to edit the About page. I wrote the word ‘testing’ and pressed Save. The page could be edited successfully. It seems that it’s a word in my About page which was causing my page not to save properly.
I had kept a copy of my About page content so I pasted one paragraph of text and pressed the Save button. I did this for the rest of the paragraphs until the page doesn’t save and gets redirected to post.php instead. Then I pasted sentences by sentences until I managed to track down the word which was causing all this trouble.
It’s the word ’s e t’ . (sorry for the spaces in between, my post won’t save otherwise. )
I then edited my Links page (just to see if I get the same problem with other pages)and put the word ’s e t’ at the very beginning and the page can still be saved.
I put the word one paragraph below and it could still be saved. When I write that word further down or at the end of the page, the page cannot be saved. So weird.
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note: I’m very bored right now but I guess that it’s quite obvious. 
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hey aline!!
you’re FINALLY back!! only managed to check your new updated site today as i was busy the last couple of days. hope everything’s better now. take care aight.
Great to see you back.
Happy belated birthday.
Regards
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I had an instance where I had to update a website for a client, but it wouldn’t save either. It might’ve been the same problem as yours. Interesting.
I had the same problem once with one of my posts, it wouldn’t accept the word s*e*t either, and everytime I tried to publish it, I got the Error404 page, never tried to find the cause of it though. lol
But I do still have a problem with one of my Options page, the Reading one, I can’t update the options in that page anymore, I get the Error404 yet again.
Guess that’s a bug somewhere.
thanks for adding my link.Done the same on my blog.
Cyah
ah..I remember having that problem before.. the reading page options one..but i think that was when I was still running version 2.0.3 .
Try upgrading your wordpress to version 2.0.4 . If it doesn’t solve the problem, go there.
See the lines right after the person mentions .htaccess workaround . Add that code in your .htaccess file, preferably at the very top.
This happened to me but I am not on Wordpress. In ExpressionEngine, I fixed the problem by having the system to identify me by Cookie and not by Session.
Thx for the tips Aline
I’ll try them soon – pretty busy today!
Just to let you know that I moved to my new blog today
Please can u update my url in your blogroll list?Thx.And hopefully I’ll see you on my other blog soon 
Aline’s back.
You were greatly missed.
Anyway, it’s odd how a simple word like ’set’ can cause the entire page to break. Because the same letter combination appears in other words like ‘upset’ and ’settle’. :/
At least you located the problem, though.
And last but not least, welcome back!
Aline,you are back and a very late birthday greeting from the army recruit here!! XD
Good to see that you have managed to spot the error ^^