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I love the simplicity of the wp-quotes plugin by Zombie Robot. It does what it’s supposed to do and it does it well. Until it doesn’t of course.

There was a wee bit of a problem with the latest WordPress update to version 2.6.2: it broke the admin interface for wp-quotes.

This happened because I used the InstantUpgrade plugin. InstantUpgrade is excellent, but overwrites files in the wp-admin directory with impunity. Of course, it might be a good idea if the author of wp-quotes hadn’t put the edit-quotes.php file in the wp-admin directory. But let’s not quibble, shall we?

So here’s the fix for wp-quotes admin interface after upgrading to WordPress 2.6.2:

• Visit Zombie Robot and download wp-quotes 1.3 again.
• Unzip the archive
• Upload the file edit-quotes.php to your /wp-admin directory
• Enjoy wp-quotes again until the next upgrade.

Pretty simple, I know. Just thought I’d note it for posterity since I couldn’t find the answer anywhere else and just tried it for the heck of it.