Need help decrypting error and warning messages

The Health Check plugin is triggering the first error. Is this when you’re running 2.7? get_transient() was only introduced in 2.8, which would explain it’s absence.

The second failure is merely a failed HTTP request. This can happen every now and then (mainly due to timeouts). It shouldn’t interrupt the normal functioning of WordPress (the HTTP request was made by wp-cron.php, which is triggered as a separate request).

The obvious advice is;

  • Upgrade to 3.1 if you’re not running it, now!
  • Update any active plugins
  • Ensure you are using a fairly regularly maintained theme (or if you built it yourself, make sure you’re using best practices and have removed calls to any deprecated functions).