After upgrading to 2.8-beeding-edge I got the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method WordPress_Module::_weak_escape()
in ../wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 473
Disabling Redirection plugin solved the problem. Could it be that Redirection also defines _weak_escape() or escape()? Server ir running PHP 5.2.6.
To get a 2.8 version I should be a beta tester or I can get a direct link also?
Mr. Serge, to test WordPress 2.8 simply change
$wp_versioninside/wp-includes/version.phpfrom2.7.1to2.8-bleeding-edgeand do an automatic upgrade as you normally would when a new version is released.Thank you. Great tip.
How do I disable the plugin if I can’t get to anything on my blog? I tried just pulling it out of the plugins directory and that just opened up a whole other can of worms.
jamEs, just delete the plugin folder and refresh any of the front-end pages for two times — first, it will display an error while the core disables the plugin, and at the second time the error should be gone.
Thanks for the simple solution!
Had this same problem. Solution:
Rename “plugins” to “plugins.old”
Create new dir: plugins
Refresh page, 2.8 should be installed and working fine.
Copy old plugins from plugins.old to plugins one by one, refreshing every time, to pinpoint which plugin is causing the problem.
deleting redirection plugin helped. thanks for the simple solution
renaming redirection plugin folder was perfect, thanks very much :)
This page just saved me from having many major headaches with my WP upgrade! Thank you so much!
As a side note, there is a new version of the plugin available (as of today – June 20, 2009), so hopefully the new version won’t break WP 2.8.
http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/
It was the redirection plugin for me too. Thank you for the help. Worked like a charm! :)
Thank you for the simple solution. Brilliant
Redirection plugin was the problem for me to. I just deactivated it, upgraded it, and then reactivated it and all is well now!