Entries posting multiple times

Martin Avis · Post by **Martin Avis** » Sat May 06, 2006 7:30 pm

Okay, this is weird!

I've been testing a new blog and trying to populate it with a few posts backdated to last Friday.

The first post I made was created 26 times! (I only clicked on 'Save' once, I promise!)

I deleted all but the last entry - which took forever - and then tried again with a second post.

This one has gone up 5 times!

The blog URL with the multiple entries is http://www.kickstartdaily.com/blog/

Apart from making a few changes to the CSS and adding a plugin or two, I don't think I've changed any settings or messed with any files.

Any ideas?

Martin

Martin Avis · Post by **Martin Avis** » Sun May 07, 2006 11:06 am

I just looked back at my blog and found that three more copies of the multiple post have appeared.

Am I just being dumb in thinking that I can post entries with old dates on them to pre-populate a blog? Could that be the problem?

Or do you think that there may be some other problem going on here?

Thanks,

Martin.

Post by **jhermanns** » Sun May 07, 2006 12:26 pm

you should be able to pick any date for your entries, even future dates, without multiple entries being created...

i can't really explain this - which browser did you use?

Martin Avis · Post by **Martin Avis** » Sun May 07, 2006 12:33 pm

I'm using IE6.

I should add that when I made the posts that resulted in multiple entries, the Admin page seemed to hang for about five minutes, showing just a blank page, before eventually loading as it should have done.

I'm going to have another go now to see if it is still doing it.

Martin

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sun May 07, 2006 12:36 pm

Hi!

Which server are you running, with which PHP version?

The only way this could happen if your webserver is sending multiple same calls to the page, maybe because of a broken PHP session configuration.

Please try to post with a different browser, like Firefox? It might be some web-proxy or an IE-addon that could be causing this?

Best regards,
Garvin

Martin Avis · Post by **Martin Avis** » Sun May 07, 2006 12:43 pm

Hi Garvin,

I'm thinking that it may have been caused by some kind of problem at my server.

The test post that I've just made this morning has been fine and the whole Admin page is now loading much faster than it was yesterday.

Hopefully the problem has gone away on its own!

Martin.