"Visual" Post Editor shows up like "HTML"

I am having a similar problem, the text in the post editor is white except for when i click the “html” version. In which case it turns black, furthermore, when I switch back to “visual” mode it changes the text to black but with the html commands displayed.I also cannot edit the post further.

I am running the most current version of wordpress with a custom theme.

This has happened to me in the past, and whether it makes sense or not, I found that the problem seemed to be fixed when I didn’t use the latest version of jQuery on the admin screen.

For my sites, I would always use the latest version of jQuery by deregistering the jQuery that comes with WordPress and then enqueing the latest version of jQuery. Sometimes, I would have this “white text” problem in the WYSIWYG editor.

To fix it, I added if(!is_admin()) to my jQuery deregister/enqueue code so the admin dashboard still used the old jQuery and voila! Fixed.

If you’re not loading your own jQuery, also check to see if any plugins are using the latest jQuery. If so, you may need to edit the plugin.

Hope that helps!

you’ll have to forgive my ignorance but, what is jQuery?

I haven’t made any adjustments to wordpress nor changed any settings besides changing some permissions in an attempt to solve a problem i have with uploading media.

Pardon my bluntness but, this is not resolved.

Sorry. I typically dive into the code. I thought you were doing some advanced programming and hit this snag.

If you didn’t do it, perhaps a plugin did? Did you try deactivating all of your plugins and check if the functionality returned? If deactivating the plugins fixes the issue, then start reactivating them one-by-one and checking until you find the problem.

If that doesn’t do it, let me know and we’ll try something else!