Can’t see visual tab when editing pages and posts

  • When I try to edit images within my posts and pages I can only access the html tab. The visual tab does not work. I have refreshed the page, rebooted my computer, tried deactivating plugins and nothing seems to help. When the page reloads it says that it was done but with an error on the page.

    What should I do?

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  • For starters, go to Admin / Users button, edit your user account, make sure the box “Don’t use visual editor” is not checked.

    Thread Starter larryrogersjr

    (@larryrogersjr)

    I did. It’s not checked.

    Hi – I have seen this go flaky before.

    Create another user, a temporary one. Give it Admin privileges, and log on as that user. See if you can use the visual editor with that temp user. If so, I have resolved this issue before by:
    1) BACK UP YOUR DATABASE BEFORE DOING THIS!!!
    2) when logged in as the temp user (with visual editor working) delete your actual username. It will ask what you want to do with the posts written by the real user. Move them over to the temp user as their author. Now the temp user is the author of all the posts.
    3) Now recreate the real user, and give it Admin privileges. Then log out.
    4) Log in as the newly created Real User.
    – make sure you can now see/use the visual editor. If so, reverse the process
    :delete the temp user
    :assign all the posts authored by the temp user to the new real user
    If that all works you are back in business.

    I haven’t done this enough times yet to learn if there are any implications to deleting the original real user, in terms of lost settings, preferences, etc. – that is why I suggest making a database backup first, so there is a record of how the database was set up prior to making these changes. In the worst case they can be restored.

    Thread Starter larryrogersjr

    (@larryrogersjr)

    Thank you for the suggestions, but I created a new user and I still can’t see the visual tab. Could it possibly be anything else?

    I don’t know what I’ve done. I feel like starting all over from scratch with this site.

    I’m thinking about taking your suggestion to restore my system to an earlier date and see what happens.

    try reinstalling the wordpress files again – backup your wp-content folder first

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