The last couple of times that I tried to update my wordpress theme list, when I click ‘Save’ (or Save and Continue Editing) there is a long wait after which I get presented with a blank page. Upon then checking the post it hasn’t been updated. This is driving me nuts as I have almost 100 new wordpress themes to add to the list! I am not using the TinyMCE editor, and instead using straight html code. When I try updating the post from blogjet, it comes back with an error message saying, “Error posting to blog: the xml-rpc server returned an empty resonse.”

What gives? I have no problem creating new posts. But the one post I need to edit the most frequently won’t let me update it!

Update: I found numerous posts about this problem in the wordpress support forums, but no real solutions. Of course, wordpress.org is currently taking another lunch break so I can’t link to them for ya at the moment. HOWEVER, on the plus side, I did finally get wordpress to allow me to update my theme list (made a few slight mods to the html for the page — really shouldn’t have made a difference and frankly I don’t know why it didn’t work and why it does now…I’m just glad its working finally!)

From the folks at WordPress:

An important security issue has been brought to the attention of the WordPress team and we have worked diligently to bring you a new stable release that addresses it. Our latest version 2.0.2 contains several bugfixes and security fixes.

I highly recommend that you download the newest release and upgrade your WordPress installation(s) ASAP (and backup your database before upgrading!).

For those of us with many blogs, this is one of those pains in the neck that makes you wish you had a hosted solution that did the upgrading for you. But all in all, the pros of getting all the features and customizability of the full version of WordPress makes it worth the hassle for those who are technically inclined enough to handle WordPress.

(The rest of you should check out WordPress.com — they’ve had a lot of upgrades lately, including new themes, WordPress Widgets, and more - which I’ll write about in a later post, but suffice it to say good things are happening over there )

BTW - It has not been clarified whether this security vulnerability which was found (and fixed) was in any way related to the supposed hacking of the WP 2.0 Theme Competition that was being hosted by kycap.com, but based on the dialog in the WordPress support forums it does appear that the KYCAP theme competition was a hoax, which, if true, is just evil. Fortunately, a new WordPress 2.0 Theme Competition has sprung out of this mess and is being run and judged by some of the more well known and respected (i.e., trustworthy) members of the WP community