Title: truncated posts
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# truncated posts

 *  Resolved [daschan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daschan/)
 * (@daschan)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/truncated-posts/)
 * Hope someone here can help. WordPress seems to be limiting my posts to a fixed
   number of characters, whether I paste my text into the post field or type it 
   manually. On saving, the post is truncated. I have tried to get around this by
   switching to html editor. When I update the entire post is visible in the draft
   box, but again on saving, the post is cut off. I am unable to publish the post
   in its entirety.
 * Can this be a server-related problem? I’m not a techie, so if anyone has a clue
   what’s going on, please spell it out for me in layman’s language so I can understand
   or bring it to my ISP’s attention.
 * I recently (about 1 month ago) upgraded from v.1.5 to 2.0.2, and since then I’ve
   been having this problem. Will upgrading again fix it?
 * Haven’t modified the theme or made any other changes to wordpress installation
   except the upgrade.
 * Many thanks in advance to whoever can help me out here. — D. Chan

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/truncated-posts/#post-561171)
 * A link would’ve been priceless.
 * What theme are you using? Does the problem persist if you switch to the default
   theme?
 *  Thread Starter [daschan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daschan/)
 * (@daschan)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/truncated-posts/#post-561183)
 * Hi, here’s the link to the blog: [http://www.harekrishnamalaysia.com/krsnablog/](http://www.harekrishnamalaysia.com/krsnablog/)
 * But I deleted the post in question, and have since been trying to work with it
   as a draft.
 * Since posting here, I backed up the blog and then updated to v2.1.3, but still
   the same problem persists, and now I find that there is no option to use an html
   editor :-(.
 * Theme is Georgia (an old theme that was designed for WordPress 1.5, which I tweaked
   ever so slightly). I haven’t tried to switch to a different theme. Will do so
   and report back.
 *  Thread Starter [daschan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daschan/)
 * (@daschan)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/truncated-posts/#post-561186)
 * Okay, I’m back, and tried switching theme to default. Sorry, problem is still
   there.
 * Could there be a conflict with the webhost server software?
 * Any help very much appreciated. Thanks again–D. Chan
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/truncated-posts/#post-561190)
 * > and now I find that there is no option to use an html editor
 * Turn it on first. Users -> Your Profile. Check the top box.
 * Are you familiar with the difference between [the_excerpt](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt)
   and [the_content](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content) template
   tags? I’d wager your theme uses the_excerpt in index.php.
 *  Thread Starter [daschan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daschan/)
 * (@daschan)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/truncated-posts/#post-561191)
 * Oh oh, it’s me again. But I’ve discovered this same issue is also appearing in
   another blog I maintain, also v.2.1.3. Again, the post is truncated.
 * Is it possible that the post (now only saved as draft) contains some character
   or word that is “out-lawed” or that conflicts with the php? (Sorry, I really 
   don’t know anything, and am taking wild guesses at this point.) The post is long,
   2312 words or 12,983 characters not counting spaces.
 *  Thread Starter [daschan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daschan/)
 * (@daschan)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/truncated-posts/#post-561211)
 * The 2 different blogs are using 2 different themes. From what I can see, the 
   index.php file inside the Theme folder merely calls up the post.php file–there
   is no request or call for the_excerpt or the_content in the index.php file. The
   post.php file calls for the_content. Here’s code from the one blog’s post.php
   file (using Connections Reloaded theme):
 * `\`<p class="post-date"><?php the_time('D j M Y'); ?></p>
    <div class="post-info"
   ><h2 class="post-title">" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title();?
   >"><?php the_title(); ?>
   </h2>
    Posted by <?php the_author(); ?> under <?php 
   the_category(' , '); ?><?php edit_post_link('(edit this)'); ?><br/><?php comments_popup_link('
   No Comments', '1 Comment', '[%] Comments'); ?> </div> <div class="post-content"
   > <?php the_content(); ?> <div class="post-info"> <?php wp_link_pages(); ?> </
   div> <!-- <?php trackback_rdf(); ?> --> <div class="post-footer"> </div> </div
   >\`
 * And here’s a snippet of code from the index.php file:
 * `\`<?php get_header(); ?>
    <div id="main"> <div id="content"> <?php if ($posts):
   foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?> <div class="post"> <?php require('
   post.php'); ?> <?php comments_template(); // Get wp-comments.php template ?> 
   </div> <?php endforeach; else: ?> <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.');?
   ></p> <?php endif; ?> <p align="center"><?php posts_nav_link() ?></p>
 *  </div>`
 * No mention whatsoever of the_excerpt.
 * At any rate, this problem is happening even with the default theme.
 *  Thread Starter [daschan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daschan/)
 * (@daschan)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/truncated-posts/#post-561216)
 * For the other blog now set to default theme, this is a snippet of code from the
   index.php file:
 * `\`<div class="storycontent"><?php the_author(''); ?>
    <?php the_content(); ?
   > </div>
 * <div class="meta"><?php the_date(); ?> <?php the_time() ?> | <?php _e("Filed 
   under:"); ?> <?php the_category() ?> | <?php edit_post_link(); ?>
    <span class
   ="feedback"><?php wp_link_pages(); ?><?php comments_popup_link(__('Comments (
   0)'), __('Comments (1)'), __('Comments (%)')); ?> </span> </div>`
 *  Thread Starter [daschan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daschan/)
 * (@daschan)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/truncated-posts/#post-561230)
 * Hi again, just in case anyone decides to look at this thread and thinks of helping
   out. 15 hours after the problem appeared, it just as suddenly resolved itself.
   Or seemed to. I suspect that there was a glitch on the webhost server. Both blogs
   are on the same server. Now the blogs are working fine. Gawd knows. I sure don’t.
   So good luck to anyone else who runs into this weird behavior. I hope I have 
   better luck next time too. Consider case closed for now.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/truncated-posts/#post-561231)
 * Far out. Glad to see the update. My next question was going to be “Have you checked
   your web server’s error logs?” Still might be worth a check. Maybe host got aggressive
   with mod_security or something?
 *  [capforge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/capforge/)
 * (@capforge)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/truncated-posts/#post-561336)
 * Hi,
 * I am having the same issue. I wrote a long post, saved it, saw it published, 
   went back to edit it, and only had three paragraphs showing. There was no way
   to recover the remainder. I can live with doing my writing somewhere else and
   pasting it in, but if it won’t post at all that is definitely a problem. Any 
   ideas? website is: [http://www.capforge.com](http://www.capforge.com) theme is
   cutline WP version 2
 * This topic says resolved so maybe there is a standard answer now? Thanks,
 * Matt
 *  [quiquech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quiquech/)
 * (@quiquech)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/truncated-posts/#post-561346)
 * I had a similar problem last week, wrote a small post, saved and it went ok. 
   Edited it, wrote a bit more, pressed the save button and it went back to the 
   first version of the post.
 * It was a problem with the database : a corrupt index in the wp_posts table. Try
   to export all the database, drop the tables and import them again. It worked 
   for me.
 * Regards

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