Title: Databaras error when editing, saving or creating posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Databaras error when editing, saving or creating posts

 *  [Gal Baras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galbaras/)
 * (@galbaras)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/databaras-error-when-editing-saving-or-creating-posts/)
 * When I create a new post or make changes to an existing post, I get the following
   error message just below the post editor:
 *     ```
       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 '' at line 1]
       select post_content from wp_posts where id=
       ```
   
 * I got this today without having made any changes I can think of, other than publishing
   a new post, like I’ve done hundreds of times already.
 * If I ignore this message and click “Update Post” or “Save Draft”, I get the same
   error message displayed in a page by itself. Sometimes, the message appears twice.
 * HELP!

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 *  Thread Starter [Gal Baras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galbaras/)
 * (@galbaras)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/databaras-error-when-editing-saving-or-creating-posts/#post-1302558)
 * OMG, it may be related to Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YRPP). I deactivated
   it and could save again. I reactivated it and everything went to shits again.
 * In the plugin’s admin panel, I tried to update the cache, which was 99.6% complete,
   and it “timed out”, no matter how many times I tried.
 * I’m thinking version 3.0.13 might have a bug. 3.0.14b1 doesn’t fix it either.
 * Mitcho?
 *  Thread Starter [Gal Baras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galbaras/)
 * (@galbaras)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/databaras-error-when-editing-saving-or-creating-posts/#post-1302716)
 * OK, this is official weird. With YARPP still deactivated, I created a new drafts
   post. While I was editing it, WordPress auto-saved once without a problem, but
   then I got the $%&#*$ error again when I published the post.
 * IMPORTANT: the saving operations actually succeed, so next time, I see my changed
   applied. The problem occurs after saving.
 * I’m baffled.
 * Anyone?
 *  Thread Starter [Gal Baras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galbaras/)
 * (@galbaras)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/databaras-error-when-editing-saving-or-creating-posts/#post-1302719)
 * Since I’m helping myself, this is becoming a blog for future generations, I guess.
 * Anyway, I found another problem with Thumbnails for Excerpts, so I deactivated
   it. Saving worked. I reactivated YARPP. Saving still worked. I downgraded TFE
   to version 1.3. Saving works.
 * The Thumbnails for Excerpts page shows others thinking version 2.0 is broken.
   Since it’s a rewrite for 2.9, which nobody has yet, that might be the reason.
 * I’m going to sleep on this a while, though.

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## Tags

 * [Database Error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database-error/)
 * [saving posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/saving-posts/)
 * [Thumbnails for Excerpts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/thumbnails-for-excerpts/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Gal Baras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galbaras/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/databaras-error-when-editing-saving-or-creating-posts/#post-1302719)
 * Status: not resolved

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