WordPress hangs when I publish or update a post [closed]

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I’ve been Googling this for a while:

I was on 2.8 when this bug occurred, so first thing I did was finally upgrade to 3.1. It didn’t fix anything.

Next thing I did was disable all the “Update Services”. Didn’t fix.

Then I tried disabling all plugins. Didn’t fix.

Occasionally it WILL post/publish/update, but only part of the post, leading me to believe all the data is not being submitted (?).

Another interesting thing to note that has happened – around the same time this started happening, my admin password stopped working and I was unable to login. Email recovery wasn’t working either. So I had to manually change my password using MySQL.

Any suggestions?

Another thing to note is that this “bug” appeared all of a sudden. I had not made any changes to WordPress in the interval since my last successful post, and when I started noticing the bug.

EDIT: OH MY GOD I FINALLY GOT THIS EMAIL FROM HOSTGATOR, THE WORST WEB HOSTING COMPANY EVER:

This issue has been corrected. There
was an iptables rule which had been
previously added due to a domain
getting attacked on the server which
wasnt removed and was matching a part
of the post you were making. I have
removed the rule and the post is not
functioning correctly

4 Answers
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Initially this sounds like a hosting problem and not a WordPress issue. Where are you hosted? Shared? Dedicated? php version? mysql version?

Run through a typical wp hack protocol and check for base64 code in wp-config.php, any theme files and akismet plugin files… also any other php files. Database hacks are sometimes hard to find too but mostly located in the wp_options table..

Read into the hack fixing at Dre’s site: http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/07/understanding-and-cleaning-the-pharma-hack-on-wordpress.html

TODOS:

Turn off ALL plugins

Check in settings > writing in the “update services” section… for now just make sure only rpc.pingomatic one is in there remove the rest.

Check in settings > Discussion and for now uncheck “Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article”…

Try to post…

what happened?

— hopefully one of those fixed it. I’d also try the above but try a fresh install of the twenty-ten theme and change your site to that theme after fresh install and try posting again.. could be something in your theme…

LMK

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