WordPress bug?
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Looks like I found a bug in WordPress 2.3. It so happens that I have some pages in which I frequently use HTML entities. Since I upgraded to WordPress 2.3, when I try to edit such a page, all those entities are gone and replaced by their plain text counterparts. So all that escaped HTML I use so often is suddenly unescaped. 
Now as long as I don’t save those pages I’m fine. But this kind of makes it impossible to edit such pages. Pretty annoying.
So I first went to the WordPress support forums to ask for advice. Seems someone else had a similar problem, but the other way round. That ultimately turned out to be a misbehaving plugin, but my problem wasn’t solved with that.
So this night, a new ticket was opened in the WordPress trac, giving my problem official bug status. 
Let’s just hope they fix it soon.
Update: this bug was squashed in version 2.3.1.