Title: “Warning: Unknown modifier”
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# “Warning: Unknown modifier”

 *  [jfruh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jfruh/)
 * (@jfruh)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-unknown-modifier/)
 * Hi all-
 * Last night on my blog I started getting some very strnage errors. I have things
   set up so that when you click “Comments” at the end of the post, the comment 
   window pops up separately. Now if you enter a comment in this pop-up window, 
   clicking the Send button gets you this very odd error message:
 * Warning: Unknown modifier ‘1’ in /home/comics/public_html/wp-includes/functions.
   php on line 1348
 * Warning: Unknown modifier ‘1’ in /home/comics/public_html/wp-includes/functions.
   php on line 1349
 * [snip]
 * ***
 * The comments <i>do</i> appear properly on the blog; however, because of the error
   messages, many users are assuming that there is an error (duh) and posting comments
   multiple times. Can anyone tell me what may have caused this? The weird thing
   is that I wasn’t mucking about with any code last night, so I don’t understand
   what might have caused this to happen. The first time I noticed this happening,
   I had just done something a little odd. I had accidentally erased a legitimate
   comment while I was in the midst of purging some comment spam, so I went back
   and used the original name and text to repost that legitimate comment. But I 
   can’t imagine how doing that would have caused this! Any help anyone can offer
   would be, um, helpful.
 * jf

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-unknown-modifier/#post-130495)
 * Options.
    Find your spamwords list Copy it all Paste into Notepad Remove the 
   blank line(s) Paste it back
 * 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [jfruh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jfruh/)
 * (@jfruh)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-unknown-modifier/#post-130498)
 * Ah, that was pretty much it. It wasn’t whitespace, though: a spammer had been
   using ampersands in his name, and I had added said name to my spamlist, which
   caused this problem. Those bastards are clever! Thanks for the nudge in the right
   direction, though.
 * jf

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [jfruh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jfruh/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-unknown-modifier/#post-130498)
 * Status: not resolved

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