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Obsolete Google Adsense links makes WordPress post go empty

By On Fri, Jul 25th, 2008 In WordPress With No Comments Permanent Link to Obsolete Google Adsense links makes WordPress post go emptyPermalink

In one of my posts here I had a referral link for Google Adsense. Recently, Google sent an email around that it will stop using them. I read that with half a mind and dismissed it.

However, this has one interesting consequence in WordPress — this link confuses the_content() API call and it returns empty string. I removed this Adsense link (broken into several lines for clarity):

PLAIN TEXT
HTML: 
    

  1. 

    <a title="Ads by Google" href="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l
    

    2. 

  2. 

    &amp;num=0&amp;client=ca-ref-pub-1148791019820431
    

    3. 

  3. 

    &amp;adurl=https://www.google.com/adsense/%3Fhl%3Den_US%26ai%3DBSsF-kUZjRc6ZFpWA-wK2rKTwCI2f8heZ0tCAAsWNtwEAEAEgyM
    

    4. 

  4. 

    61BEDLFkicOVDBw_S-A2D8pvuN9CWgAZeVyP0DsgEFYXBsdXPIAQHaARBodHRwOi8vYXBsd
    

    5. 

  5. 

    XM6ODEv4AECgAIBlQITul4KqAMD
    

    6. 

  6. 

    &amp;ai=BwfOLkUZjRc6ZFpWA-wK2rKTwCI2f8heZ0tCAAsWNtwEAEAEgyM61BEDLFkicOVDD64L
    

    7. 

  7. 

    CAmD8pvuN9CWgAZeVyP0DsgEFYXBsdXPIAQHaARBodHRwO
    

    8. 

  8. 

    i8vYXBsdXM6ODEv4AECgAIBlQITul4KqAMD">Adsense</a> 
    

    9.

and things were back in normal. No idea what is exact problem, just posting for the sake of others having the same problem. Thank you goes to commenter David that alerted me to this.

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