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Guys and Gals,

I discovered my problem, I’m sorry for posting this issue as it was a logic error in my plugin. I’ve been working on this way too long today and I’m at the point I’m making stupid mistakes 🙂

I’ll explain what happened in case it may help someone else in the future.

In my plugin, I had a line of code that checked when the management page of my plugin submitted the form to update the plugin’s options, like this:

if($_POST['action'] == 'update')
{
	// we are saving my_plugin options from my_plugin_manager.php
	$sl->SaveOptions($_POST["my_plugin_options"]);
}

The problem is that anytime a setting is updated under the Settings menu on wordpress, $_POST[‘action’] == ‘update’ is always true.

I needed to pass a hidden form variable as an identifier so that it would only update when the form was submitted from my plugins management page, like so:

if($_POST['action'] == 'update' && $_POST['my_plugin_update'] == 1)
{
	// we are saving my_plugin options from my_plugin_manager.php
	$sl->SaveOptions($_POST["my_plugin_options"]);
}

I think I might have discovered a clue as to what is going on.

I get a lot of ping back and track back spam, though I have my blog set up so that I have to approve comments before they appear, this spam never makes it onto a page.

However, from time to time, some of this spam is somehow causing the setting Settings->Reading->’For each articles in a feed, show:’ to be reset to ‘Full Text’.

Several times I have set that option to ‘Summary’, and for the past 2 days have been logging in to check the status, and after periods of high spam activity, this setting gets reset to ‘full text’.

At first I thought I was going crazy and I was just making a mistake, or something stupid, but today I made a concious effort to write down the times I saved the option as ‘summary’, and sure enough a few hours later it would be set back to ‘full text’.

I guess I will turn off ping backs and track backs for now and see if that prevents this bug from occurring. I like to keep it on just to track of the incoming links these spammers are kind enough to place on their spam site to my blog.

Is wordpress aware of this?

Thanks!
Ryan