update_option bug

[jowo]

update_option('show_on_front', 'page');
update_option('page_on_front', 1);

Does not work.

show_on_front is not updated in database
page_on_front does not even exist

[nacin]

Works for me.

[jowo]

I tried this on a 3.0 MU-blog install.

Can't get it to work.

[filosofo]

you probably want update_site_option then.

[jowo]

Ok I finally tracked down the bug I was having. It was an error on my part.

In my plugin I did update_option() and below it I was running wp_delete_post(1, TRUE); which in turn reset those two options and actually deleted the "page_on_front" in database.

I guess because they are related and wp_delete_post() takes care of that. I thought it only worked with the wp_term* tables not options.

So works as intended.

Btw seems redundant to have two functions doing the exact same thing? update_option() seems to work as should.

[nacin]

They're different. update_option() updates a blog option, update_site_option() updates a network-wide option in multisite/MU mode.