Error In post.php – Unable to Post New Posts

Hey guys,

I’m suddenly getting the following error when trying to publish a new post from the GUI in the WordPress administrative panel: Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /wp-admin/includes/post.php on line 494

The following error appears on the top of a fresh “new posting” page. Everything else on the page behaves successfully, but when I go to post (the “Submit for Review” button) it doesn’t post live and continues back to the listing of all blog posts like a nothing happened.

I checked out line 494 of the post.php file and it’s right after the else clause of the ‘get_default_post_to_edit’ function found in the standard post.php file on line 453.

specifically line 494 is:
$post->post_content = apply_filters( 'default_content', $post_content, $post );

I’m not really using anything customized from the standard install pack other than a few plug-ins and a theme. I also trolled the forum a healthy amount and completed the following before posting here:

1. re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

2. running the upgrade manually via wp-admin/upgrade.php

I’m pretty stumped at this point. I’ve been running this blog for a few years and haven’t had an error like this before. The rest of the site behaves fine and can be found here.

Thank You!