The case of the disappearing zeroes (0) – data input missing

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    footballnihon · Member ·

    I’ve come across one of the strangest errors I’ve found on WordPress and don’t believe this has been flagged as an issue with WP before.

    I create HTML tables to publish both scores and league tables of Japanese and Asian football (soccer) competitions. I’ve noticed that where I have published results, and the relevant “score” for a particular team is “zero” (i.e. has been input as 0) – the zero has disappeared disappeared. This only affects scores where the input is zero, and no other figure.

    As an example, please see this post.

    All the “blank” scores in this post should be zero, and it’s clear in the code that I have written 0. This is the code I have used for the first result:

    <tr>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;"><img src="relevant image file" /></td>
    <td><span style="font-size:small;">Kashima Antlers</span>
    <span style="font-size:x-small;">Osako 41', 68'</span></td>
    <td><span style="font-size:small;">2</span></td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;"><img src="relevant image file" /></td>
    <td><span style="font-size:small;">Kashiwa Reysol</span>
    <span style="font-size:x-small;"></span></td>
    <td><span style="font-size:small;">0</span></td>
    </tr>

    Furthermore, this issue only seems to be affecting some tables, and not all.

    For example, here is a post in which the zeroes have disappeared from both the result and league table. However, here is a post in which the zeroes have disappeared from only the result and not the league table.

    What I would like to know/some help with is:

    (a) Has WordPress updated to ignore zeroes in input (and if so, how do I override that default)
    (b) If there is no such update, what could possibly be removing the zeroes from some, but not all, of the tables?

    It’s completely baffling to me, so any help and guidance would be greatly appreciated.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

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    jenia · Member ·

    Hi there, this was indeed a small glitch on our end that removed zeroes from some posts. Sorry for the inconvenience! It was fixed on December 22, 2012. I checked the posts you’ve linked to and noticed that all the zeroes display correctly in them. Do let me know if any of them are still missing.

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