Reminder to self (and anyone else) before upgrading your installation of wordpress to the latest it is a good idea to upgrade and turn off all plugins (or as many as possible) and re-enable them after the upgrade.

I did a “one button” upgrade (nice tool of DreamHost’s) of all my WordPress blogs to 2.8, without deactivating the plugins. For two of the blogs everything was silky smooth, however the other two…

Fatal error: Call to undefined method WordPress_Module::_weak_escape() in ~/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 487

and nothing else.

Fortunately I had a mirror of the old site right before the update so I was able to restore that and examine the plugins. Only three were common to both blogs, so I turned them off, then recopied the new modified files back. Sure enough everything worked fine.

I was able to determine that this time it was the wonderful Redirection plugin from Urban Giraffe. I had an older versio (I know, bad.)

A quick upgrade of the plugin to the latest version and everything is good as new. Now to start playing with WP2.8

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Just some administrative notes.

I wanted to document for myself and other some of the tools I use in creating this site. I need to do this for Eclectic Echoes as well, but that site has been around for quite some time, and I just don’t have the time for such a task over there now. Maybe someday. Here though, I am starting clean, so I will try and get ahead and stay on top of the colophon as I develop the site. You will find the Colophon link at the top of the page above the zoea image and the site header.

I also need to give credit to the photographers whose images I use in the rotating header for this site. The colophon is the perfect place to do this. Right now there are 7 images in the rotation. Two are mine, the rest come from other photographers on Flickr.

I have set up a poll in a separate posting where you can vote on your 3 favorite banner images as well.

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I’d love your input on the header images I use on the site. The current header image is randomly selected from a collection of headers I have created . The images currently in rotation are:

'1st Instar - Detail' ©2008, Eric Heupel, Creative Commons BY-NC

'A big hoverfly larva', © 2007 LordV Macros, used with permission

'Leafwing Butterfly Larva' ©2006 Whotheheckareyou, Creative Commons BY

'A larva of the swallowtail butterfly', ©2008 idua_japan, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND

'I see you' ©2006, Marko_K, Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

'Eastern Tent Caterpillars', © 2008, Eric Heupel Creative Commons BY-NC-ND

'Ants moving larvae to another nest', © 2007 Roger Gordon, Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

'Papilio machaon - Oruga de macaon', ©2007 fuentedelateja, Creative Commons BY-SA

'Larva - Coccinella septempunctata' ©2008 fuentedelateja, Creative Commons BY-SA

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