2.8 upgrade killed visual editor

I got those files by using the WAU (WordPress Automatic Upgrade) plug in.

define( ‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false ); would make WordPress admin run slower, so after I made sure all the files were in place I commented it out and everything still works.

here is the list of files & directories I now have in tinymce/
blank.htm
langs (directory)
license.txt
plugins (directory)
themes (directory)
tiny_mce_config.php
tiny_mce_ext.js
tiny_mce_gzip.php
tiny_mce_popup.js
tiny_mce.js
utils (directory)
wordpress.css
wp-mce-help.php
wp-tinymce.js
wp-tinymce.js.gz
wp-tinymce.php

total count = 16 files & directories

Mine are gone too. My question exactly. Where to get them?

I used automatic plugin in the beginning and immediately notice things not working. Still can’t use the PAGE SETTINGS button, nothing happens. Also, on the widgets page, nothing happens. I’ve done everything suggested except to add the missing files but if they aren’t in the unzipped file then where?

Me too. Irritating me to no end.

@jay Greathouse the following files are from 2.6 (not used in 2.7/2.8):

tiny_mce_config.php
tiny_mce_ext.js
tiny_mce_gzip.php
wordpress.css

New files in 2.8 are:

wp-tinymce.js
wp-tinymce.js.gz
wp-tinymce.php

where wp-tinymce.js is the concatenated editor plus all default plugins (255KB), wp-tinymce.js.gz is the same file precompressed (77KB) and wp-tinymce.php adds the proper headers and outputs the precompressed file when the browser supports compression (nearly all do).

So if the visual editor is working fine after 2.8 install, all is good, right?
No need for everyone to do this, just folks who for some reason got a messed up install somehow?

@geezerd of course. It seems sometimes files are missing/not being copied when upgrading.

@azaoaa thanks for checking in and contributing more info

since all my install were 2.7.1 it would seem that WAU did not clean out the old files since I still had 2.6 files

which returns me to my recurring question:

where is the list of all files proper to 2.8?

define( ‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false );

it fixed the problem for me

I had this happen too. Updating Viper Quicktags plugin and NextGen gallery plugin fixed it.

I always check to make sure my plugins are updated when goofy stuff like this happens. 9 times out of 10 that’s what caused it.

adding this to wp-config.php worked for me, as well:

define( 'CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false );

But I shouldn’t have had to do that. This is a huge bug and obviously many are seeing it. Can’t believe 2.8 was released like this.

I had the same problem, however…

Everything looks fine on my Mac running Firefox 3.0.11 and on my PC running IE 8. The problem, in my case at least, is isolated to Firefox 3.0.11 on my PC. There are some differences between the add-ons I’m running on my PC vs. my Mac, so I suspect one of them is causing the problem. Sure enough, when running Firefox in safe mode on the PC, everything works.

I haven’t identified the Firefox add-on that’s the culprit (and it’s late at night, so it will have to wait), but it certainly looks like one of them may be the culprit for at least some users experiencing this problem.

Hello All.

After upgrading to wordpress 2.8 suddenly i can not control anything in the wordpress admin , When i go to the vidget menu and try to remove a vidget or move it it is impossible , It is in all browsers for me i getting following erro message from intenet explore 8

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2)
Timestamp: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:51:49 UTC

Message: Exception thrown and not caught
Line: 19
Char: 2424
Code: 0
/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=1&load=jquery,utils,quicktags&ver=b64ae9a301a545332f1fcd4c6c5351b4

Do anybody now how to fix this ???

All the best

Russer

This is stupid what wordpress have done here…

I have read the replies, and still have not sorted this TIME WASTED task out lol,

I’ve tryed to edit the wp-config.php but it is’nt even included in the 2.8 version

Can someone help me with personaly, and I will return a favour.

Regards

Danny

@azaozz that was it for me, I was missing the file wp-tinymce.js.gz. I gzipped the js, reenabled compression on post.php and all seems good.

thanks!