When Tags Vanish: WordPress 2.1
NOTE: This article is out of date and likely obsolete.
Since upgrading to WordPress 2.1.3 a few days ago, I鈥檝e noticed tags disappearing on some of my posts. I currently use Bunny鈥檚 Technorati Tags, which stores them in custom fields.
It turns out there鈥檚 been a known problem since WordPress 2.1 was released two months ago. Some plugin hooks have changed, and plugins that used to only get called during post editing are also getting called during comment publishing. I grabbed an updated version of the plugin, and it seems okay now.
Oddly, most (but not all) tags survived unscathed during the two months running earlier 2.1 releases. It鈥檚 only since moving to 2.1.3 that it鈥檚 been consistent. Oh, well, at least it prompted me to find the fix.