Another WP 2.6 Issue (Hope You Have This One)

My buddy Newscoma is in the process of moving her blog from wordpress.com to her own domain.  She ran into a really weird issue today with her jquery.js file giving an error - jquery.js?ver=1.2.6:11

Digging around, it turns out that there’s an issue in the /wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php that asks for meta data about all the posts.  I found this great article with the fix, and it points to these two lines in the edit-form-advanced.php file:

$metadata = has_meta($post->ID);

list_meta($metadata);

So if you have a lot of posts and a lot of metadata like ‘Coma does, this will take forever and time out.  All you have to do is comment out these lines and you are set.

Hopefully you have a hearty blog with lots of posts and lots of comments, and this problem will affect you.  And hopefully WordPress will fix this in their next release!