Visual Editor Not Working in WP 4.1

  • Resolved David

    (@davidjrojas)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    After upgrading to WordPress 4.1, the visual post/page editor is not loading. The text editor works fine. I have gone through extensive troubleshooting and ruled out most other solutions I’ve found on the web from other users experiencing similar issues.

    Upon first inspection, there are 403 Forbidden errors for the content.min.css and skin.min.css files located in wp-includes/js/tinymce/skins/lightgray folder. So I logically conclude that this is what’s causing the visual editor not to appear. However, all file/folder permissions are correct, as well as file and folder ownership. I checked with out host (Pair Networks) and they were not able to find any issues on the server-side that could be causing the problem.

    I have gone through all standard troubleshooting steps (deactivating themes/plugins) as well as manually deleting the WordPress system files and re-uploading fresh ones to no avail.

    The only thing I have found to get it working again is to downgrade to version 4.0. Obviously, this is not the best solution.

    WordPress team: can you please either give some input or look into a possibly bug issue here?

    Thanks in advance!

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  • For me, it was very simple – after going through multiple steps as mentioned above I found out that, under ->Users ->Personal Profile -> Visual Editor – The checkbox for “Disable the visual editor when writing” was checked – this took me 3 hours to find out (and I hadn’t done the change myself)…

    I had the same problem.
    It was a security setting on the server, blocking urls with variables.
    Wordpress inludes tinymce files with variable in the end:
    wp-includes/js/tinymce/themes/modern/theme.min.js?wp-mce-4203-20150730
    call your hoster to fix it

    shaweb

    (@shaweb)

    though i tried all the stuff here, it doenst fix my problem with

    ammaralsheik

    (@ammaralsheik)

    everyone, i had a similar issue and nothing worked except the following:
    1. go to users, your profile and check this checkbox ” Disable the visual editor when writing ” then save changes.
    2. uncheck the checkbox and save changes and you should be good to go.

    mike

    (@mikedekievith2013)

    We had the same problem.
    We use Cloudflare as CDN service, and chose the cache setting ‘ignore query string’. Thet disabled the visual editor.
    When setting the cache to ‘standard’ again, the visual editor showed up again.

    The solution by j893 by changing can_compress_scripts setting in the database in this thread https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/visual-editor-not-working-after-upgrade-to-40/page/2?replies=49 worked for me.

    As did the temporary solution of turning on script debugging in wp-config

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