Upgraded to 3.2 Visual editor buttons missing

Thank you so much for the investigations and suggestions everyone.
I actually decided to step back to the previous version, stop poking at it (man did that take restraint) and let Godaddy catch up.

Tonight I logged into godaddy and saw that they’re supporting 3.2, so I went for it. 4 blogs upgraded without a single problem.

*shrug* I guess it was something on their end. I hope everyone else has found a solutions by now, but if you’re a godaddy user I think you should be OK to upgrade.

I have a dozen sites that the same thing happened. 2 I did not update wp and the controll panel is still working. I also just set up several sited yesterday with the newest version and the panel is there and working in the new version so far. So it’s just the update screwing things up. I’m at webhostingpad too, so maybe hosting doesn’t matter as long as they are up dated. A few of my domains are not godaddy so that doesn’t seem to matter. And I have tryed all the tricks you guys have, with plugins and cackes. I’ll let ya know if I figure anything our. I sent a message to support @ wp.com and they refered me back to wp.org. Someone said that they released the update while in beta test. Can’t wait till we get this solved. Thanks for sharing. Debra

Warning: Don’t Hack the Core But Do Upgrade to WP 3.2.1
This is an update to the “No Visual Editor” problem. If you read what I wrote above I had commented out do_action('admin_footer', ''); in wp-admin/admin-footer.php. Andrew Nacin wrote me and told me not to do that because it would screw up many things. So I have upgraded to WP 3.2.1 and put do_action('admin_footer', ''); and emptied the cache and now the Visual Editor works.

So try upgrading to WP 3.2.1 to solve this problem.

The suggestion of commenting out the action hook was written before the new update came out.

The checks were explained before suggesting to comment out the action hook i.e. see if that was killing the page loading. If it was then the fact is there’s no issue on commenting out the action hook because it wasn’t running anyway and nor was anything further! Sorry but a daft comment really. It was already screwing up a lot of things and more.

However, if the upgrade fixes it then it’s a moot point.

@saraha I appreciated your solution, since it fixed the problem for me and I knew it would be temporary. I just wanted to warn less careful and knowledgeable users that the upgrade solved the problem. Thanks for your help.

No worries, was just pointing out the irony ?? Glad it’s working for you now.

None of these things are working for me,
Is anyone still working with IE8???????????
I can’t update to 9 because I stll have windows xp

I just found what was causing my problem. I use a nifty plugin called Digi and when I deactivate it my editor comes back.

Unfortunately, I have the same problem as described by everyone here (danielweiner in particular – his visual captures are the best for showing whats going on), and upgrading to 3.2.1, turning off plugins, clearing cache and even downloading Google Chrome as a different and new browser to view my site fresh fails to fix the problem.. so there is still a bug somewhere that is not being addressed.

I run 2 blogs. The one that hasn’t been upgraded to 3.2X isn’t going to to be upgraded from 3.1.4 until this issue is resolved. It’s not a major bug, but it’s pretty annoying.

There are no known bugs of this type in 3.2.1. Please review https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-32-master-list

I’m aware there isn’t. It isnt a bug from 3.2.1. It’s an “issue” in 3.2, which 3.2.1 has failed to address or fix – at least in my case.

OK – there are no known issues of this type in 3.2.1

Tried everything suggested here, except for the ones that are related to coding. Unfortunately it is not my thing.

Now here’s another new thing – right after I installed 3.2.1, the visual editor was not working. Did most of the stuff that were suggested here and ultimately got it back working again after I emptied my cache. Now, everything is back again, no visual editor, go figure… It’s like an endless loop. Works, and stops working, and so on… this has to be some issue with 3.2.1?

No, but if flushing the cache helped, then that’s probably what’s wrong. Your cache is busted.

For the record, I’m running WordPress 3.2.1 and have the problem of missing visual editor buttons. The buttons do appear on the HTML editor, but the “link” button does not work. The b (“strong”) button did work, though.