No WYSIWYG Editor in 2.1

Try this solution I just posted to another thread:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/104627?replies=5#post-512864

I was seeing this same problem of the missing Visual Editor on every install on a server and was able to solve it…

I tried jkeegan2’s fix to see if it would address my particular problems, and it doesn’t.

Makes no difference whatever.

Peace,
Gene

Same problem here, in the toolbar there are only three buttons (to split post, the spellchecker, and the help), and nothing works to fix it… Hope there’s a solution, it’s very annoying…

One thing that helps me after the most recent updates/troubleshooting/hacks, etc. is to log out and login again, and sometimes that clears up the problem. For a while, at least.

But I still cannot get it to AutoSave.

Peace,
Gene

I’ve searched and searched for the answer to this problem. Some solutions say to edit a tinymice file, others stated to clear the cache from the browser. Well for some reason my problem doesn’t seem to even be addressed in the different posts. My problem is that I see “some” of the buttons on the “non-rich visual editor” (html) but that’s not with any tabs. I don’t see ANY buttons at all if I turn the rich visual editor on for my account as shown in this picture. https://www.mystupidthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/tinymice_missing.jpg

So I’ve tried the editing of the tinymice files as suggested in this post. I’ve tried the clearing of cache and turning off all my plugins. Nothing is working.

Does anyone know what is going on? I don’t see any tabs to switch between the two modes, and when in the Rich Visual mode it’s button free above the post content.

Any help or advice would greatly be appreciated.

I presume this inconsistency is a 2.1 bug that someone should be addressing, since lots of people are reporting it.

Peace,
Gene

I’ve got the same problem, i.e. I can see the two tabs, visual and code, but neither of them work.
I’ve tried all the suggestions on this thread, but nothing makes a difference. I’ve reinstalled twice. All the other functions on the install seem to work, but this one doesn’t.

DARN

I’ve tryed the site using IE and the bloody editor shows up entirely…

Damn cache files…

anyway. I’ve reuploaded the 2.1 files (wp-admin and wp-includes) and the hole bugger worked out finally.

Now all i have to do is wait to see if anyone fixes the upload issue.

Well that issue is solved too. Cached files screwed everything.

Silla! and THANKS A LOT!!

Same problem I have no quicktags at all.

Wait if I turn off visual editor I see some tags.

My visual editor did not work after upgrade to 2.1, on two out of three blogs. Cleaning browser cache did not help. Turning off all the plugins neither. What did help: I had removed the www. from the url in the Options page. Putting it back there and the rich editor worked fine, without any warnings in the admin page status bar.

My visual editor did not work after upgrade to 2.1, on two out of three blogs. Cleaning browser cache did not help. Turning off all the plugins neither. What did help: I had removed the www. from the url in the Options page. Putting it back there and the rich editor worked fine, without any warnings in the admin page status bar.

I definitely think you’re on to something here. I tried the very same thing, and it may have done the trick. So much for being cutting-edge and dumping www prefixes ??

Peace,
Gene

@varkenshand: I removed the prefix from WordPress Address and Blog Address, I updated the options, and then added the prefix again, re-updating, but that did not work. Am I missing something or what I did was the right procedure?
Thank you in advance.

Update: I just discovered that using Explorer I can see the buttons. I suppose it’ a bug with Gecko engine, since it does not work with Firefox and K-Meleon (yes, I deleted the cache, so that’s not the problem).

Well, also Firefox works now, only K-meleon seems to have problems, still. It’s annoying but at least I’ve an alternative now. Thanks varkenshand ??

First off, thank you to everyone who has posted on this issue. Your comments have led me to a solution to my issue and for that I’m grateful.

As such, I’m going to post my experience here and hope it helps someone else with theirs.

A little history: I upgraded originally to 2.1.0 following the ‘Upgrade in Five Easy Steps’ instructions at: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Upgrading_WordPress. That original upgrade was a colossal failure because for whatever reason, some of the files were not being overwritten during the FTP up. So I followed the detailed instructions and managed to get the upgrade working by deleting the files that I was uploading for the upgrade. Then I ran into this issue where the visual editor wasn’t working; not just not working but not there at all. At this point, I’d invested a day and had no more time to spend so I gave up and restored my 2.0.7 installation and went on with life.

Today, I upgraded to 2.1.1 hoping that the bug with the editor had been fixed. That hope turned out to be ill-found and after I followed the detailed upgrade instructions again (that being deleting the files I was uploading instead of overwriting), bringing the site up and testing the plugins I found that the issue with the visual editor was still very much present. Thank goodness it’s Saturday and I have some time to invest.

So I set out on another support search and after reading through NUMEROUS posts (been working on this for about five hours now), I finally found one that corrected my issue with the bar not even being there: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/104627?replies=5#post-512864. I made the changes to the tiny_mce_gzip.php file that jkeegan2 suggested and when I went back to the edit and write pages, low and behold the tabs were there and so were the buttons. . . well most of the buttons: half of them were missing; I only had the bold, italic and break buttons.

So it was back to the forums where I found this post and when I got to the end I saw varkenshand’s post about the ‘www’. Now, I don’t use ‘www’ on my blog since my blog is a subdomain and it looks kind of, well, stupid as https://www.blog.hadesdream.net and I really didn’t think was going to work but for sins and giggles, I decided to try as I’d exhausted my knowledge of PHP (which isn’t a lot) and it seemed everyone else’s as well. So I went in and changed the blog addresses in the WordPress options to be https://www.blog.hadesdream.net and saved it. After saving the change I was immediately taken to the main site ‘Page Not Found’. I got the same error time I tried to access the admin control panel. After panicing a bit and popping a Xanax, I remembered that my domain is setup in such a way that if a net user types in https://www.blog.hadesdream.net, the server automatically removes the ‘www’ and sends the user to https://blog.hadesdream.net. So I went into Dreamhosts control panel and set the domain to accept either the ‘www’ or straight subdomain and once the changes propagated, I was in business. Everything seems to be working properly now.

At this point, being the ever curious quality assurance specialist I am, I wondered if the ‘www’ had to be on BOTH the WordPress location and the blog address location. So I went back in to the options screen and took the www off the blog location leaving it on the wordpress location, retested and voila, working editor with all buttons and my blog address is still https://blog.hadesdream.net when clicked from within the blog.

SO, all of my problems with the 2.1.1 release have been solved. At least so far.

I know some of this info is a repeat by my hope is that by listing things succinctly, that someone who perhaps isn’t as tech savvy as most of us seem to be will be able to resolve his or her issues without investing the hours that I’m sure we all have invested.

I also hope that someone reports these items as official WordPress bugs in the hopes that some of the volunteers would be kind enough to fix them for the next release. I’m going to try to figure out to report a bug today and if I can I’ll do it myself.

Despite all of this; I still think WordPress is hands down the best blogging software on the web. After fighting with Blogger, MySpace, LiveJournal and BravenetI’m a die hard user and can’t imagine ever again using anything else. I send many thanks out to the volunteers for EVERYTHING they do to make this software work and available to everyone for free.

PS: Special thanks to jkeegan2 and varkenshand for their wonderful suggestions on how to solve these problems. You’re assets to the community.

I just wanted to say thanks for this post and all your answers.

I had the same problem upgrading from 2.04 to 2.1.1. At first, I didn’t have a wysiwyg tab or window. I had only the code editor. I followed the directions to check the “Use Visual Editor” under my profile. (I didn’t have to do this in a prior, seperate and fresh install on another domain, so I was perplexed). It brought the visual editor tab up, but it didn’t work correctly. I could see all the buttons, but nothing was clickable, not even the tabs.

I reuploaded my wp-includes/js folder, and cleared my cache. Looks like everything works now.

Thanks all, I wouldn’t have known where to start with this one on my own.