Category Archives: WordPress Core Errors

Posts about errors in WordPress Core files

DOING_AUTOSAVE E_WARNING

August 9, 2009 – 5:22 pm

The wp-includes/post.php file contains 4 error suppressors. The wp_save_post_revision function contains the line
if ( @constant( 'DOING_AUTOSAVE' ) )
When it is defined, it is when the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php file's _wp_ajax_delete_comment_response function defines it as boolean true. This is the only other place where the DOING_AUTOSAVE constant can be found within the WordPress core files.
Because I can see [...]

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WordPress and Suppressed Errors

August 3, 2009 – 3:59 pm

One of the errors found by the Error Reporting plugin was an E_WARNING thrown by the constant() function. Upon investigation, it was discovered that the core file had the function call prefixed with the "@" error control operator. The log file also contained a few database function errors. The corresponding lines for those were found [...]

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is_a Conclusion

July 29, 2009 – 3:10 pm

Errors:
For the majority of WordPress users, the use of is_a in the core files is of little concern. The E_STRICT errors, in PHP versions >= 5.0 < 5.3 only, can be safely ignored and are not a problem if error reporting does not include them.
Performance:
For those that have PHP versions >= 5.0 and desire a [...]

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wp-admin includes template.php

July 28, 2009 – 1:23 pm

This file causes two is_a E_STRICT errors.
function wp_category_checklist( $post_id = 0, $descendants_and_self = 0, $selected_cats = false, $popular_cats = false, $walker = null ) {
…..
// if ( empty($walker) || !is_a($walker, 'Walker') )
$class_name = 'Walker';
if ( empty($walker)
|| ( ( get_class($walker) != $class_name )
&& !is_subclass_of($walker, $class_name) ) )
…..
function user_row( $user_object, $style = ", $role = " [...]

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wp-includes Text Diff Renderer.php

July 27, 2009 – 12:22 pm

One is_a
class Text_Diff_Renderer {
…..
function render($diff)
…..
// if (is_a($edit, 'Text_Diff_Op_copy')) {
$class_name = 'Text_Diff_Op_copy';
if ( ( get_class($edit) == $class_name )
|| is_subclass_of($edit, $class_name) ) {
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