Problems with Visual Editor in WP 3.1

Just adding my voice to the crowd: same issues as above, and I’ve worked out it’s connected to having themes installed, the editor works fine if *all* themes (including the default one) are deleted. However, even reinstalling the default theme causes the issue to reoccur.

I’ve also tried disabling script concatenation, which did nothing.

I’m running a Mac, and I’ve tested this on Chrome, FF3.6 and 4, and Safari. So far only safari works with this configuration (possibly the only time anyone has ever used that phrase).

So yeah, having *any* theme installed breaks it. Does anyone else find this?

(also, I have manually replaced all of the code files myself as well)

And a breakthrough: increasing the php memory limit from 16MB to 32MB makes things suddenly work again. Why anything in this software needs that much RAM is beyond me, but nonetheless it now works. Thanks everyone.

The visual editor issues as well as a bunch of other issues are fixed once I upgraded to PHP 5. I am using a Web hosting provider and hence I used .htaccess file to force PHP5. More details on the issues and the fix are on my wordpress blog.

I don’t know if this will help anybody but I have managed to solve the wp-editor problems on my backend only in IE,Still strugling with firefox!! ??

To do this I selected the updates option in the dashboard and Re-installed automatically,

please make sure you backupyour data though!!!!

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Anthony

“New to the world of WordPress but it’s well worth it”

I been having the same problem and tried everything here and a few others. I did notice that when I was in the Users section changing my theme color I notice that the visual editor was disabled. Now before I did the upgrade, I was using the visual editor! hummm. Well guess what I enabled it and now I have the visual editor back. I don’t know if it was that all alone or I disabled it by doing any of the things to try listed here, but it works!

Wait, enabled what?

Users > “your profile” > Personal Options > Visual Editor – Disable the visual editor when writing

Oh right, I see. Mine is definitely enabled, glad it worked for you though!

This is aout the 5th thread I’ve read about this problem. The suggestions are basically the same on all. The Php thing is interesting, but I don’t have the faintest idea how to find what version of Php I’m running. Or how to allocate more memory to it. Willing to try if someone can give me a hint how –

I’m really discouraged. Tried everything else. The code fixes – nada. Plug-ins, nada. fresh uploads, nada. Nothing changes. Still no visual editor at all. Cramps my style, dang it.

If you can create a file called phpinfo.php and place the following in it. <?php phpinfo(); ?>

upload the file to your web server and then run it

https://domain-name.com/phpinfo.php

that should tell you what version you are running.

As far as the additional memory usage, this is what I added to the top of my wp-config.php.

<?php

/** Memory setup just in case **/
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '512M');

/**
 * The base configurations of the WordPress.
 *
 * This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,
 * Secret Keys, WordPress Language, and ABSPATH. You can find more information
 * by visiting {@link https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Editing_wp-config.php Editing
 * wp-config.php} Codex page. You can get the MySQL settings from your web host.
 *
 * This file is used by the wp-config.php creation script during the
 * installation. You don't have to use the web site, you can just copy this file
 * to "wp-config.php" and fill in the values.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

@jefftet

Forgive me, but I have to ask, “make a file” – do you mean make a folder? I can do things in code – but it’s the starting out that confuses me. Make a file – oh, fetch, I don’t even have any imagination tonight. And run it. Do I need Taco or something to do this?

I can find the config file and add the code, no problem. So kind of you to advise. Advise just a little more?

create a text file using your favorite text editor and add this <php phpinfo(); ?> to it and then save it with the filename phpinfo.php. upload the file you just created to your web server to the same location the wp-config.php file is located. Next in your web browser add the address to your site like so: https://your site dot com/phpinfo.php

hope this helps

Oh. Oh. Of course. (Hits forehead with palm). Now, do you mean load it INTO the config file? Or into the directory that holds the config file. And how do you know how to do stuff like this? You’re amazing.

Well, well. I decided to do an entire fresh manual installation while I was trying to figure everything else out. I did it on my laptop. Evidently, the newest download I’d done on that machine (since there’s no indication which version on the downloaded folder) was the one just before 3.1 –

So I just simply went back in time, and now I’ve got my visual editor back, and i’m very happy. Never solved the problem with 3.1, but everything works now – and I’m not sure I’m really missing anything else that I had with 3.1.

Hope I’m not stuck here forever. But my functionality is back. And that’s what I need right now. I hope they fix it, whatever it is.