Word Press Visual and Text Editor doesn’t work

  • Having issues with WP visual and text editor. Initially can type in text editor but when click on visual editor the text is not visible and eventually both editors disappear. This seems to be not an uncommon problem in the WP community.

    Here is what I tried.
    – Different browsers – not resolved
    – Updated all plugins and themes – not resolved
    – switched theme to 2016 – not resolved
    – deactivated all plugins – not resolved
    – after hours trying various suggestions I stumbled across this article
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Your_Browser_to_Diagnose_JavaScript_Errors
    I enabled Script Debug in wp-config.php “define(‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true);” and this worked! per the trouble shooting steps, Step 2 indicated to disable Script debug and contact the forum with steps taken.

    I did not disable the script debug yet because my customer needs to make changes to posts and pages. If I leave script debug enabled will this be an issue long term? And if this is an issue and script debug needs to be disabled, any helpful instructions is much appreciated.

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  • SCRIPT_DEBUG forces WordPress to use the unminified versions of core CSS and Javascript files rather than the minified versions that are normally loaded. This won’t hurt anything, though it could slow the site load by a half second. Don’t worry about it. Your webhost may have some restrictions that are breaking the minified scripts; hard to say without seeing error logs for the host or for WordPress.

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