Have you tried:
-deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
-switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
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dcamin
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Yes, those were among the first steps I tried. I have also downgraded to various versions (all the way back to 3.9.9) and upgraded PHP and MySQL on the server to current versions. The problem persists. The posts themselves are fine, it is only when they are displayed in a list, such as on the homepage or in a search results list. The first one in the list has the 1970 date but the others in the list are all fine.
Dates look fine to me. The IBM memorabilia is cool.
Nope…the first post on the home page has this URI:
http://www.houseonrynkushill.com/1970/01/01/local-mcm-house-for-sale/
and the first post in this category:
http://www.houseonrynkushill.com/category/bedroom/
has this URI:
http://www.houseonrynkushill.com/1970/01/01/the-boys-room/
1970/01/01 is the beginning of the Unix epoch, which makes me wonder if there is something strange with your server setup. Have you run a php_info test to see if anything weird comes up?
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dcamin
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Kjodle – I have a test page to pull php_info from and I have checked it. Nothing seems out of the ordinary. (If you had more knowledge than me (which is limited on that topic) and wanted to look, I can point you to a page with it.) I’m running on a WIMP stack, no Linux. It’s really vexing.
Amarjit – thanks for the comment on the memorabilia. It’s fun to have all of those historical things to share.
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dcamin
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Any other ideas on this? This issue is still happening. Through some digging, I did notice that I had a few posts that appeared to have had bad links inserted into them – some sort of hack. I cleaned them up, tightened the security profile of the site up, and ensured MySQL and PHP are all up to date. I’ve effectively swapped out all of the WordPress core files (by downgrading\upgrading) and run the Sucuri plugins. No dice. Anecdotally, it seems that the issue is when the query is run, the first result is somehow messed up. I don’t know enough about the queries and query process to analyze it to figure it out, though.
