Title: Broken WordPress.org Search (database error)
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Broken WordPress.org Search (database error)

 *  [daveseah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveseah/)
 * (@daveseah)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-wordpressorg-search-database-error/)
 * For the past few days, when attempting to search the support forums, I’ve been
   getting an error message on the results page:
 * WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual
   that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near‘
   m working on a Plug-in to embed Gallery2, and gallery pictures. … Exactly like’
   at line 3]
 * I’m using Firefox 1.5 / Windows
 * Hopefully I’m not reporting this in the wrong place.

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 *  Thread Starter [daveseah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveseah/)
 * (@daveseah)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-wordpressorg-search-database-error/#post-350186)
 * Oops, that was the error I saw when I listed source, I actually see (in red letters
   on a pink background) when I tried “LZIL” as a keyword search:
 * XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
    Location:
   [http://search.wordpress.org/lzil](http://search.wordpress.org/lzil) Line Number
   63, Column 31:
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-wordpressorg-search-database-error/#post-350189)
 * Check the second sticky in the forums here (pink and titled “[closed] How to 
   search the forums”)
 *  Thread Starter [daveseah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveseah/)
 * (@daveseah)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-wordpressorg-search-database-error/#post-350375)
 * Thanks HandySolo. I didn’t realize that the search button was broken by design
   🙂
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-wordpressorg-search-database-error/#post-350376)
 * Oh, probably not by design. I think the preferred term is “unanticipated feature”…
   😉
 * Personally, I enjoy the irony of steering folks to Google to search here considering
   that first big honkin’ banner under the “Hosting” section.
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-wordpressorg-search-database-error/#post-350383)
 * *snicker* Yeah. That’s probably the “new definition” of ironic….

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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-wordpressorg-search-database-error/#post-350383)
 * Status: not resolved

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