Visual Editor No Longer Working

You can try using your browser to diagnose for javascript errors.

It could provide some helpful information.

I’m not sure why that worked, but it did! Thanks! I followed the directions on the link. The problem was with a bunch of tinymce files. Do I delete that line from my code now, or leave it?

Thank you so much!

I’m not sure what you did…. but just diagnosing shouldn’t have fixed the problem. Instead, it should show you where errors exist in the page rendering.

I wouldn’t delete any files.. especially if they are core WordPress files.

Do you still see the errors when you diagnose? Can you take a screenshot of the errors?

Josh, I’ve been having similar trouble, but I don’t find any javascript errors. Only 403 forbidden errors on some of the tinymce css files. See my post here.

Thanks, Josh. I didn’t mean delete a file. I just meant delete the code for diagnosing.

It’s still working today, although things are still really slow. I checked for errors again (even thought I can see the editor). They are different error than yesterday.

These are the original errors. (Found with IE console before I started this thread.) : Failed to load: https://onecreativemommy.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/hr/plugin.min.js
Failed to load: https://onecreativemommy.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wpeditimage/plugin.min.js
Failed to load: https://onecreativemommy.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wpview/plugin.min.js

In another thread, someone said they downloaded tinymce to fix the problem, but I had no idea what that meant, so I didn’t do it.

I have a screen shot of the new errors, but I don’t know how to add it here.
You can find it here.

Thank you!

It’s still working today, although things are still really slow. I checked for errors again (even thought I can see the editor). They are different error than yesterday.

It’s slow because the server is timing out due to looking for those files (in red).

I would first check and see if those files exist in your file directories. You can access them using either FTP or your hosts cPanel (File Manager).

You have a few locations to check:
wp-includes/js/json2.js
wp-admin/css/themes.css
wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.color.min.js
wp-admin/js/edit-comments.js

Start with those.. and see if those files exist.

All of those files exist, but I don’t know what the version numbers after them mean. Of course, there are no version numbers on my files in ftp.

After weeks of frustration (I am slow!) – i solved my issue with the WYSWIG editor not being visible when editing a page in wordpress dashboard and clicking “visual” tab –
I downloaded the newest version of wordpress and then navigated in my current site to
/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/wp/wp-includes/js/tinymce
and changed the folder tinymce to tinymce_mm_dd_yyyyy
then i went to the same folder in the newly downloaded wordpress version and copied up that tinymce folder
logged in and out of wordpress admin page – and the tinyvce WYSWIG editor is now working!
wow.
I hope this helps others!