Visual Editor Not Working in WP 4.1

I had the same problem with Visual Editor’s hyperlink not working. I tested all my plugins and discovered the problem for me was “Constant Contact”. I deactivated the “Constant Contact” plugin, then all works fine. I will now have to find a solution to have a Constant Contact form on my site that integrates with CC.

Hope this may help someone else!

@improbablejulia, thanks for your input! This solved the problem for me as well. I guess I just needed to talk to the right person at Pair Networks. ??

@david, did you find out what the name of the vulnerability was or what they did? My host is not Pair Networks. Also, posting that info here may help WP folks get to the bottom of it in their code if they can.

@mikulator, improbablejulia posted it above:

From Pair support:

“Back in 2012 there was a massive PHP vulnerability that was
discovered that was present in all versions of PHP, both current (for May
2012 current that is) and all previous versions. Information on this bug
can be found at the link below.

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61910

When the bug was discovered, there were no immediate patches
available. As a work-around, pair Networks gave every domain we host
special lines in an .htaccess file to secure users against this issue.
About a week after the bug was discovered, patches were available and all
versions of PHP on our servers were updated, but the .htaccess file lines
were left in place as they were not causing any issues.

As PHP has long since been patched, these lines are no longer
needed, so commenting them out (disabling the specific lines) poses no
threat to security.”

Here are the lines I removed from my .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^[^=]*$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} %2d|- [NC]
RewriteRule .? – [F,L]

The site I had the problem with was on Pair also.

HTH

@jonbius

So, doing that, made your visual editor work again?

??

Yes, birdog123, it sure did! We’ve since encountered a few more instances of that, and it fixed things straight away when we removed that code.

Glad you got it sorted and reporting it back ??

@deencoded,
As you might have noticed this a “resolved” thread.

To get full attention to your specific issue, my suggestion would be to start your own thread. Despite any similarity in symptoms, your issue is likely to be completely different because of possible differences in physical servers, accounts, hosts, plugins, theme, configurations, etc. Thus one problem, on one setup is not indicative of the functionality and reliability of an application as a whole. So, to get the best attention to your specific issue as you deserve, please review how and where to post in this forum: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post

Dear All,

I too experienced these problems when I upgraded to WP 4.1.1 version.

This is the solution I got so far. I downloaded the WP4.1.1 version from www.ads-software.com, opened its /wp-includes/js/tinymce/ folder and compressed to .zip
On the cpanel I renamed the tinymyce folder to tinymyce2 and uploaded the zipped tinymyce file.
After decompressing it, I refreshed both the cpanel window and one of the website( I manage several) and Viola! the Visual Editor was visible again on the posts. Also remember to delete the tinymyce2 folder on the cpanel once this works for you.

Or you can choose to upload the JS folder as a whole too.
I hope this helps someone else.

PS: I had to give step by step illustration so that those who are not familiar with this can get it.
Thanks.

Please note if the No. 1 option does not work for you, consider replacing the whole JS folder(as a whole) as it did work for me on the other sites (that did not work with no. 1 option).

Thanks

Just a quick THANKS David, improbablejulia, and jonbius! Your troubleshooting with pair’s setup was invaluable – I’d been bogged down by this forever! Now fixed, removing these lines from my .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^[^=]*$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} %2d|- [NC]
RewriteRule .? – [F,L]

THANKS!!
Scott (satisfied pair user since 1997!)

@scottolson_byram ! Long time no see! ?? Another Pair buddy from 1997 here. And this is a “me, too” post for a broken WP 4.1 visual editor, and have spent the afternoon removing all of those emergency fixes. All are working fine now.

You guys rock.

I’ve been pulling my hair out for 2 days about the inoperable Visual Editor since upgrading to WP 4.1.1 and have sifted through dozens of red herring support tickets.

I’m no Pair and removing that code solved the problem.

thank you thank you thank you

This solved my problem too. Thank you very much.

In my case the .htaccess file contained only the problematic lines so I deleted the file and problem solved.