Serial Posts FAQ

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   Some or all Serial posts disappear after adding serialposts shortcode

   There is a bug in WordPress (not yet fixed as at WP 2.9) which means that shortcodes won't work properly if the post exceeds 100k characters. The symptom of this bug is that the post content "disappears" when viewing the post in your browser.

   Details of the bug can be found here on WordPress Trac:
   http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8553

   This bug will only manifest itself when using the Serial Posts plugin if (a) you have exceptionally long posts AND (b) you are using the serialposts shortcode in your posts, ie this:

   [serialposts]

   There are two fixes to get around this (take your pick)

   1. Stop using the shortcode in your posts and use the template tag instead, therefore in index.php (or single.php, whichever is used for the single post view) add this in a suitable place within the Loop:

   <?php serial_posts(); ?>

   2. Alternatively, add this code to your wp-config.php file immediately above the Happy Blogging line:

   ini_set('pcre.backtrack_limit', 1000000);

   Be aware, fix #2 will only work if your server is running PHP 5.2+.

   A related forum post can be found here.