Rich Text Editor problem in WordPress 2.1.2

It would be helpful to know what you DO see, don’t you think?

Would you consider sharing a screen shot?

Here is the screenshot of the post page while viewing it in firefox latest version.

https://karthik.hotflakes.com/natkarthik.jpg

What personal firewall is installed on your PC?

What happens if you temporarily disable it?

I’m using ZoneAlarm firewall. I disabled the firewall, restarted the browser and tried using the shortcut Alt+Shift+V in the post page. Not working. ??

If you need the access of the admin area of my blog, I don’t mind giving you the username and password. Can you give me your email address to send the login details or send me a sample mail to [email protected]

Thank you.

[email protected]

I have a suspicion this might track back that firewall**, but I’m willing to log in and have a look.

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** seems there were some folks noticing differences between ZA Pro and the free version

I’m using the pro version of ZoneAlarm firewall. Anyhow I’ve sent you the login details of my blog to your gmail address. Please have a look and let me know if there is anything wrong. Thank you.

The “good” news is that I see what you see.

So… this forum search may turn up useful posts?

I’d probably start by suggesting a clean re-upload.

I went through the posts in the “forum search” and I think lot of people have the same rich text editor problem as I have.

But sadly, no body has found a solution yet.

As I already mentioned in my first post, I’ve completely deleted the wp-includes/js folder and did a fresh upload. But nothing worked for me. If you want me to do a fresh re-upload of the js folder again please let me know.

Please guide me on what I should do next. Thanks.

Hi natkarthik,

Does your browser report any javascript errors in the editor?

From what I’ve seen most of these tinyMCE problems are usually due to caching, either your browser cache or server side proxy caching which can be a bit more difficult to clear.

Then there’s the browser specific errors where it works in firefox but not in explorer or vice versa. Could be cache or one of various bugs depending on what versions you’re running.

With wp 2.1.x though there’s also a new problem cropping up on some server/php combinations where realpath is undefined and tinyMCE file_get_contents throws an error. It’s mainly affecting plugins that load external buttons to the rte though but might also be a problem for some wp installs. This one is as yet unresolved but is in trac with a fix scheduled for wp 2.1.3 that could make a difference… hopefully.

The problem here is that tinyMCE is a moving target and while the upgrade to the version in wp 2.1 fixed a lot of problems and is a lot more refined than the version in wp 2.0 it’s still a work in progress.

Zueg,

Thanks for your response. I get the javascript error “tinyMCE not defined” when the writing page is loaded.

I also did the modifications in the wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_gzip.php as mentioned in the page you have given. Then I tried using writing page again by clearing the cache. But the same error occurs this time too.

It appears to me that, there is not a known solution for this issue. May be the next version could fix this.

Can anyone suggest me a good plugin for the rich text editing. Thanks.

If by “rich text editing” you mean something to replace tinyMCE then try Google. I think Dean’s FCKeditor for WordPress might be okay for 2.1.2.

Since the Visual Tab works usually fine when you go to the write page with a clean browser cache but will be stuck in code view once your browser cache has loaded the post-new.php page once it suggests that this may be cache related.

Since it worked fine in 2.1.1. I’d check anything cache related that changed from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2.

From a usability point of view this has a huge impact on your general user base t least as far as the wp.org community is concerned. Wp.com users aren’t affected anyhow.