The Open Source U

I’ve been using the Simple Tags plug-in on this web site for some time now. I’ve never had a problem or, at least, never noticed a problem. Recently I noticed that the collapsed boxes in the WordPress admin screen (screen shot below) would not expand (among other issues). The problem was isolated to the Add Post interface. I tracked the error down to bad JavaScript used by the simple tags plug in.

Wordpress's Add Post page Collapsible / Expandable box where the error existed.

Once I disabled the plug in, the expand / collapse worked as it should.

I’m not trying to punish or shame the Simple Tags team and I’m not sure the error is universal — it may work fine on your site. I’m simply sharing to help others  as it took me some time to isolate the issue. It could have been a combination of plug ins too.

Update: I’ve found that the simple tags plug in is continuing to work properly on my other (more personal) blog http://villasenor.ws/ so the problem was obviously some combination of plug-ins on this site and not simple tags alone.