White text and no buttons in editor

  • I’m having an issue that seems to be fairly common – when I loaded up my WordPress site today (howtojaponese.com), the text in the editor is white and there are no editing buttons.

    I upgraded to 4.6, upgraded all the plugins and everything. And then followed all the suggestions in this article: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-white-text-and-missing-buttons-in-wordpress-visual-editor/

    Still no luck. Should I try replacing the whole wp-includes directory? Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I noticed that this also happened to my other blog (moralesdaniel.com), which makes me think it’s unrelated to plugins – I only have Akismet spam plugin working on my second site.

    So I’m not quite sure what to do. It started today all of the sudden without me doing anything. It had been a week since I last posted on howtojapanese and several months since the moralesdaniel site. Starting to get a little confused.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Try manually resetting your plugins (no Dashboard access required). If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause.

    If that does not resolve the issue, access your server via SFTP or FTP, or a file manager in your hosting account’s control panel, navigate to /wp-content/themes/ and rename the directory of your currently active theme. This will force the default theme to activate and hopefully rule-out a theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins).

    If those don’t make any difference, try downloading WordPress again, access your server via SFTP or FTP, or a file manager in your hosting account’s control panel, and delete then replace your copies of everything on the server except the wp-config.php file and the /wp-content/ directory with fresh copies from the download. This will effectively replace all of your core files without damaging your content and settings.

    Some uploaders tend to be unreliable when overwriting files, so don’t forget to delete the original files before replacing them.

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