Nasty Problem With Basic Bilingual Plugin [en]

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1. I think I found a fix — indeed something in the “vanishing meta” department. It has something to do with comments (approving moderated comments?) but as I’m not quite sure what cause the problem, I’m not sure either how to test that it’s gone. Ugh.

2. I replaced the function bb_update_meta:

   // general custom field update function
   function bb_update_meta($id, $field)
   {
   // authorization
   if ( !current_user_can('edit_post', $id) )
       return $id;
   // origination and intention
   if ( !wp_verify_nonce($_POST['bunny-key'], 'bunny') )
       return $id;
   
   $setting = stripslashes($_POST[$field]);
   $meta_exists=update_post_meta($id, $field, $setting);
   if(!$meta_exists)
   {
       add_post_meta($id, $field, $setting);
   }
   }
   

   Now even I can’t edit “other-excerpts” from the post editing field, so I guess it at least prevents accidents!

3. Ah, this needs to go under the textarea in the admin edit post section:

   // hidden field to avoid vanishing meta
   
   
   echo '<input type="hidden" name="bunny-key" id="bunny-key" value="' . wp_create_nonce('bunny') . '" />';

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6. Hi Stephanie,

   Nice to know that you figured it out. Happy Hacking 🙂

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