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wp-cli
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wp_update_post() eats your backslashes
Two WP-CLI scripts rewrote 78 posts on this site. 69 came back exactly as planned. The other 9 lost every literal backslash they had, including the string interpolation in two Swift tutorials, and nothing reported an error. wp_update_post() expects slashed input and unslashes whatever it is given.
wp cache flush doesn’t flush what your site is actually serving
Three times in one week I changed something on this site, verified the change, and watched the old version keep going out. Each time the change was correct. Each time a different cache was holding it, and the command I used to check was testing a layer that wasn't the problem.