Update to 3.5 disables the visual editor for posts and pages

  • Resolved snookersky

    (@snookersky)


    11 years, 11 months ago

    First of all, you must know, that I was searching a lot through different forums to find a solution to my problem: I have updated from 3.4.2 to 3.5 and the editor was broken. With a fresh 3.5 installation, all is fine, but in my runing site, the behaviour is as follows:

    The “Visual” mode has no toolbar at all !!!

    If I want to edit (or create) a post or page and the “Visual” mode is already on, the “visibility: hidden” of the texarea wp-editor-area doesn’t allow me to see anything previously written or to set the cursor in that area. Even if I change to “Text” mode, the style “visibility: hidden” remains hard coded (no css!) Here the HTML code there:

    textarea id=”content” class=”wp-editor-area” name=”content” cols=”40″ style=”height: 360px; resize: none; visibility: hidden;”

    If I try to edit a post or page and the “Text” mode is already on, then the visibility is not hidden. Here the HTML code now:

    textarea id=”content” class=”wp-editor-area” name=”content” cols=”40″ style=”height: 360px; resize: none;

    Of course, now I can edit HTML (text), but as soon as I change to “Visual” and back to “Text“, the visibility is gone (hidden) again.

    I have compared exactly this HTML code with the fresh (working) installation, and there I’ve found:

    textarea id=”content” class=”wp-editor-area” name=”content” cols=”40″ style=”height: 360px; resize: none; display: none;” aria-hidden=”true”

    And an aditional span can be found here (it’s missing in the buggy update):

    span id=”content_parent” class=”mceEditor wp_themeSkin” role=”application” aria-labelledby=”content_voice”

    It seems that this problem appears to others too and other forums describes different causes for that. I’ve tried them all w/o success. ?? May be can someone help me with a clue – what can I try or how can I further search the cause. This is what I’ve tried w/o success:

    1. I’ve disabled ALL plugins – but, because the visibility style is hard coded, I actually think that there is a problem in WP 3.5, and not in the plugins.

    2. I’ve added in wp-config.php – as some forums suggested:

    define(‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true );
    define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false );

    3. I’ve changed (took from the fresh installation) the directory:

    wp-include/js/tinymce

    I hope my own investigation will help some WP developer to find out the cause and to publish the solution.

    Thanks in advance
    snookersky

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  • It is probably to do with jQuery in either your theme or a plugin, and an update should be available from the developer(s) already or soon.

    Read the master list fully to find a solution.
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-35-master-list?replies=4

    Check this
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-35-master-list?replies=4 (I am not sure of everything you tried)

    Using the browser to check for javascript errors when you open the dashboard is a good idea also.

    Why is the visual editor broken within WordPress itself?
    I can’t use Tags or get the Visual view.
    I’m not posting a new topic either ??

    Thread Starter snookersky

    (@snookersky)

    May be I didn’t mention everything I did, because it was no use for me (js-debugger didn’t had errors) And sorry not to mention, what I didn’t: I did not try to edit the .htaccess, because I have none. And I *really* have deactivated all plugins. Should I remove them? That would be very annoying – because I would lose my own settings in most of them. I have also changed to the TwentyEleven theme, but the editor in the administration panel didn’t changed at all – is obviously still broken. In the first place, I suspected my plugin “CKEditor”, but even removing this one, was w/o success… Any forum is pointing to the “master” list. But, believe me, even if it’s a closed topic there, they did NOT mention any failure! Not this one!

    If no solution appears these days I will have to change the CMS. With no possibility to edit my stuf, WP is useless to me ?? I am really sorry for that!

    snookersky

    Thread Starter snookersky

    (@snookersky)

    Finaly I found the reason: it was no WP core topic, as assumed, but the automatical WP-update procedure didn’t updated the tinymce i18n-stuff as well. Since tinymce is included in WP, this step has to be done manually.

    https://www.tinymce.com/i18n/?ctrl=lang

    In my first tries (see above, 3.), I’ve copied only tinymce core stuff, that’s why I didn’t solve the problem then. Sorry for the inconvenience.

    Best regards,
    snookersky

    @snookersky — What exactly did you do to fix the problem? What did you download? Did you install anything or just upload files — either way, what did you do?

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter snookersky

    (@snookersky)

    I didn’t install anything – just overwrote i18n stuff of tinymce. From the URL above, I’ve selected the corresponding language pack and downloaded the resulting file (Download button below all languages):

    tinymce_language_pack.zip

    Then, I’ve unziped it into the directory:

    wp-includes/js/tinymce

    Thought it is obvious… sorry.

    snookersky

    Sorry — my mistake — I hopped over to the Download page and was faced with a bunch of options there. ??

    Thanks.

    @snookersky

    Sorry, I’m a newbie. Same problem as you. I downloaded the tinymce_language_pack.zip and unzipped it into the directory wp-includes/js/tinymce. I left everything that was in the directory in the directory and just uploaded the pack as an addition. Was that correct?

    Simply uploading the contents didn’t fix the problem for me.

    (I also just tried removing those three folders and replacing them completely, didn’t fix it either)

    Thanks for your help.

    Thread Starter snookersky

    (@snookersky)

    You did exactly the same thing I did.
    But, as other contributors here already mentioned, there could be also other causes for this problem.

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