no visual editor when writing !

OK – I found the issue. Apperently the built-in windows un-zip application does not unzip all files, specially those that handle widgets and the editors, which are .js files. So I used winrar instead to unzip the wordpress package and now it works fine. I had to use CRTL F5 to force a refresh.
Diego

SHARE-IT Plugin
I have found out that in my case, this plug-in causes the problem with the

Visual Editor

options disappearing. So please be wary of this potential clash.

This is a huge problem already documented here in the forums.

Since scouring the WordPress forum’s about this I almost gave up with finding a cure. Simply, for ‘apparently’ no reason (and I use apparently loosley here) the Visual Editor would vanish. Now it seems there are several manifestation’s of this. More…

One is the actual Visual Editor would actually vanish completely, leaving you with just the Code tab.

The other one, which I suffer from, would be that the actual Visual Editor menu options would disapear. So you still had the Visual Editor and Code tabs visible, but any way of actually selecting any of the (I will now use the abbreviation VE) VE options would be impossible, as there were not any to choose from.

Leaving for a very frustrating time.

It’s a very common issue, with many contributory factors. Some are just messed up experimental coding, breaking WordPress. I know, I was a prime example of this.

Others though, seem on the outside to be utterly random. I have seen people go to extreme lengths to remedy this issue, with no luck. There are some htings you can do that sometime’s sorts the problem out, but ultimately, for the number of people, they are stuck without hope.
Im don’t have a miracle solution, but I do have a contributory cause in my particular experience, so it can be added to the one of many external factors.

Simple, it was the Share It plug-in. Deactivate it, the VE would appear. Activate the Plug-in and the VE would disappear. Now I don’t know why I didn’t figure this out earlier. I thought I had de-installed all plug-ins as part of the elimination procedure, clearly not.

But this is a reproducible error and is not a fluke.

Hope this helps
<b>Graham</b>
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Here’s what worked for me. When I updated to 2.3.3 only the last 4 images in the visual editor’s menu bar appeared, and they didn’t work. I tried the suggestion given earlier to change the permission of the tinymce folder/directory (wp-includes/js/tinymce), changing it from 0775 to 0777. But when I went back to the Write Post page and refreshed it, all of the images disappeared, leaving only a white rectangle. I then changed the permission back to 0775, and when I refreshed the page again all of the images appeared and the editor now works fine. [Mac OS 10.2.8; Firefox 2.0.0.12]

I just wanted to throw my 2 cents in on this. I was having the same issue (no check box for visual editor on profile page and no visual editor to speak of). In my case it appears that when I uploaded the wordpress files to my server somehow the js folder was left out of the wp-includes folder. Since this folder houses the TinyMCE plugin, naturally without it I had no visual editor. I wish everyone else’s issue with TinyMCE were as easy to fix. I put this here because I am hoping it will help somebody else. Thanks!

I’ve tried just about everything in this thread but simply cannot get the editor buttons to show up on Firefox (but they do show up on Safari). I’m using version 2.2.3 on a Mac.

The fact that they work fine on Safari (3.0.4) but not on Firefox (2.0.0.12) suggests to me that it is a browser compatibility issue. But why would it not work on Firefox?

What should I do to fix the problem? I know I could upgrade to the latest wp version, but I’ve put so much effort into my current theme (which is incompatible with 2.3.3) recently that I want to hold off on having to change themes for a while.

Any ideas would be warmly appreciated.

Actually, I’m realizing that the WYSIWYG editor is *not* working fine in Safari (even though the buttons appear) suggesting that there is a wordpress problem, not a browser issue.

How do I solve this?

I just experienced the “visual editor” bug on IE6.x/WinXP. I’ve been reading thrads on this for an hour.

Turning off the pop-up blocker in IE turned on the visual editor — both tabs and the editing icons returned. The visual editor was visible in Firefox 2.x in WinXP and OSX, also visible in Safari on OSX.

I am guessing — but I suspect various combinations of browser security settings, pop-up blocking and cross-domain access rules may be in play. My current fix includes:
1) make the blog admin domain a “trusted site”
2) set security in this zone to lowest (most open) setting)
3) turn off popup blocking

Your mileage (and browser experience) may vary.

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diegoc: OK – I found the issue. Apperently the built-in windows un-zip application does not unzip all files

VICTORY. Thanks, Diegoc! This solved my problem also. I just reinstalled the tinymce files using WinZip (same thing I used the first time). Something got corrupted the first time.

I had been reading the forum for hours and saw that everyone was having different problems. The corrupted unzipping explains it all — where different files did not load properly from the .zip file.

For those who may not have seen my exact problem, here it is: Using IE7 and WordPress vs 2.3.3. Neither the “visual” or “code” tabs were displaying when writing or editing a post. Also, the toolbar did not display, even though I had the “use the visual editor when writing” turned on.

Looking at all the posts, I was sure it was a bug since this has been out there for quite some time. You are a genius.

Had a similar issue though the reason was my webhost has PHPSuExec installed.

This means you need to create a php.ini file to allow certain functions.

actually i am also having the same problem,tried evrything but didnt worked for me in fireforx,however setting security low helped me in IE

None of this makes any sense to me .. but I too am having issues with the editor.

I’ve tried several of your suggestions here – and nothing is working. I’m using Firefox and IE – the editor does not work in either version.

Confirming that the visual editor does NOT work under the following conditions:

– Firefox 2.0.0.13
– Windows XP
– Removed .htaccess from /wp-includes
– No applicable restrictions in other .htaccess files
– “Use WYSIWYG” enabled for user
– Uncompressed with WinRAR

The problem I’m experiencing is that when I click on “Write,” the editor box I’m presented with has the buttons for HTML editing, but “Visual” is highlighted. Clicking on either “Visual” or “HTML” does nothing… literally, there is no action or refreshing. Also, it appears that WP is automatically “fixing” my HTML… I have a plugin that needs “[sometext]” but when the page is saved it comes back with p tags attached, and the plugin breaks.

I’ll second what ecword is saying.

My text editor does not look anything like this:
https://img84.imageshack.us/img84/954/51944032ck4.png

Holy hell, that look shiny. It also looks nothing like what I’m seeing, which is a single row of everything from “b” to “close tags” in the HTML editor, even though the whole reason I migrated from Drupal was to get a decent WYSIWYG editor.

Honestly, I’m considering reverting to the previous WP version. I’m supposed to be rolling out a shiny new WP-based site for my college’s newspaper today, and I really don’t want to explain my my adviser how the new system botched its visual editor on the day of our launch.

I seem to have resolved things…

– installed the Web Developer 1.1.5 addon for Firefox and disabled caching
– deleted and re-uploaded /wp-includes
– removed .htaccess restrictions (not that it matters, from a security perspective… the business blog I’ve developing is blank)

The WYSIWYG editor seems to work now, and I can switch between that and the HTML editor with ease. I’ll try narrowing down the source of the problem later.