Visual Editor all White, no Text editor

I thought I found the problem, but it is back again.

Now it is affecting more than one of my wordpress sites. No site has the same theme. 2 sites were created and updated on 2 different computers on 2 different servers.

The themes do not matter as this happens on Twenty Twelve and Twenty Eleven.

I know what I am typing is appearing on the published page, I just can’t see what I am typing.

Here is what I’ve tried and it didn’t work:
Here is what I found in the forums and I did all of these things. None have worked.
Go to your wp-admin, your profile, and ensure “Disable the visual editor when writing” is unchecked.

– Rename your wp-content/plugins folder to plugins-old or something like that. You should then be able to determine if your visual editor is working at all. This step allows you to verify that the visual editor is working and in fact a plugin was the culprit.

– Go into Settings -> General settings and if there is a colon ‘:’ in the end of the Site URL (eg: https://www.mysite.com/wordpress:) then remove the colon.

– switch to the Twenty Ten theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

– Make sure your WP version is up to date.

– Consider a WYSIWYG editor like TinyMCE Advanced and see if that solves things.

– Follow WP’s instructions on how to deactivate all plugins

– Try re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress.

It shouldn’t come to this, but if all else fails, back up your wp-includes/general-template.php, and ensure these lines are there:

function user_can_richedit() {
global $wp_rich_edit, $is_gecko, $is_opera, $is_safari, $is_chrome, $is_IE;

if ( !isset($wp_rich_edit) ) {
$wp_rich_edit = false;

if ( get_user_option( ‘rich_editing’ ) == ‘true’ || ! is_user_logged_in() ) { // default to ‘true’ for logged out users
if ( $is_safari ) {
$wp_rich_edit = ! wp_is_mobile() || ( preg_match( ‘!AppleWebKit/(\d+)!’, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’], $match ) && intval( $match[1] ) >= 534 );
} elseif ( $is_gecko || $is_chrome || $is_IE || ( $is_opera && !wp_is_mobile() ) ) {
$wp_rich_edit = true;
}
}
}

return apply_filters(‘user_can_richedit’, $wp_rich_edit);
}The last one gave me an error and I lost the whole site. I went back to the existing version and everything came back but the editor.

I edited CSS in /wp-includes/css/editor-buttons.css.
From: .js .tmce-active .wp-editor-area{color:white;}
To: .js .tmce-active .wp-editor-area{color:black; /* bwh */}

Also, I have the tab for text editor, but when I click on it I stay on visual text editor.

Any suggestions? I am at: https://www.hlnwebdesigns.com/cms
This is a test site as an addon to my regular site while I set up a wordpress site.

Helen
Tara
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Posted 13 hours ago #

have you tried:

– open wp-config.php and try adding the following line before “That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging” Add this to your wp-config file (not the best solution, but now you may be able to use admin again): define(‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true);
HelenNovice
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Posted 13 hours ago #

I can access my entire dashboard, I just can’t see what I’m typing in the editor. It is typing white on white.

I will try your suggestion because right now everything I type has to then be highlighted to be sure I don’t have a typo and just to see it in the editor. It shows up fine in the page. I just can’t find what file and what line of code pertains to the text editor’s font color.
HelenNovice
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Posted 13 hours ago #

That did it! Thanks.

They should put this as a sticky note. As others have had this same problem and other scenarios have worked for them. One sticky on all things you can try and this should be at the top.

Thanks for your help.

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HelenNovice
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Allowed markup: a blockquote code em strong ul ol li.
Put code in between backticks.
Did you include a link to your site, so that others can see the problem?

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What did work temporarily was:
open wp-config.php and try adding the following line before “That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging” Add this to your wp-config file (not the best solution, but now you may be able to use admin again): define(‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true);

But now I’ve been told this is not a fix and could cause problems later on.

Any suggestions?

Helen

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