Title: wpdb->prepare issue
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# wpdb->prepare issue

 *  [Joost de Valk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joostdevalk/)
 * (@joostdevalk)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wpdb-prepare-issue/)
 * Line 332 of admin.php needs to be changed, the `$wpdb->prepare` statement in 
   there isn’t needed, as there are no variables, so it can safely be removed.
 * If not removed, the plugin throws the following warning:
 * Error: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in /home/example/public_html/
   wp-content/plugins/akismet/admin.php on line 332 and defined
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/)

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 *  [Prasanna SP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prasannasp/)
 * (@prasannasp)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wpdb-prepare-issue/#post-3264950)
 * [Mark](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-argument-2-for-wpdbprepare-error-with-wordpress-35?replies=4#post-3567214)
   said that the issue will be fixed in the next release. So, waiting for it.

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