Comments on: WordPress 2.8 bleeding-edge and WordPress_Module::_weak_escape()

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:45:43 +0000

Redirection plugin was the problem for me to. I just deactivated it, upgraded it, and then reactivated it and all is well now!

By: JC

JC — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:45:43 +0000

Thank you for the simple solution. Brilliant

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WordPress upgrade to 2.8 - 944 Turbo Resource — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:45:43 +0000

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By: Jeremy Blake

Jeremy Blake — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:45:43 +0000

It was the redirection plugin for me too. Thank you for the help. Worked like a charm! :)

By: Jon Milani

Jon Milani — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:45:43 +0000

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/

By: Sandy Kumskov

Sandy Kumskov — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:45:43 +0000

renaming redirection plugin folder was perfect, thanks very much :)

By: ravi

ravi — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:45:43 +0000

deleting redirection plugin helped. thanks for the simple solution

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:45:43 +0000

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.

By: Hari Bhajan

Hari Bhajan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:45:43 +0000

Thanks for the simple solution!

By: Kaspars

Kaspars — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:45:43 +0000

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.

By: jamEs

jamEs — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:45:43 +0000

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.

By: Mr. Serge

Mr. Serge — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:45:43 +0000

Thank you. Great tip.

By: Kaspars

Kaspars — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:45:43 +0000

Mr. Serge, to test WordPress 2.8 simply change $wp_version inside /wp-includes/version.php from 2.7.1 to 2.8-bleeding-edge and do an automatic upgrade as you normally would when a new version is released.

By: Mr. Serge

Mr. Serge — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:45:43 +0000

To get a 2.8 version I should be a beta tester or I can get a direct link also?