WordPress 4.5 admin editor not working in Chrome

Hi Rok Balboa,

Try deactivating all plugins. If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause.

If that does not resolve the issue, try switching to the default theme for your version of WordPress to rule-out a theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins).

Already tried all that, disabled all plugins – not working.

Tried activating twentysixteen theme, not working.

It works in Firefox though most of time, yesterday also didn’t work in Firefox, but at this moment it does. Chrome not.

Thanks, for hint.

I’m having the same issue!

I had not realized it was only happening with Chrome as I never experienced this issue with Chrome before. So thanks for that!

I also tried deactivating all plugins, activating twentysixteen, and even re-downloading/uploading the tinymce folder… it didn’t work!

I’m not sure if it comes from WordPress 4.5 or the Chrome update then… I’ll report a bug in Chrome just in case.

@rok Balboa: I’m not having any problems when I use Chrome (50.0.2661.75), so I can only assume that this is specific to your site.

Have you tried:

– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

– re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder and wp-config.php & root .htaccess files – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

@esmi

The problem is real with some versions of Chrome. It has apparently been addressed and will be fixed in an upcoming update:

https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/36545

I tested this using the same version of Chrome as the original poster. Is it perhaps OS dependent?

It might be! I’m using Windows 8 64 (unfortunately).

Sorry, I pasted the wrong link earlier. This is what I meant to add:

https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/36545

Win 7 64 here…

@rok Balboa

If you can’t wait for the wordpress update, here’s how I just fixed it based on the ticket above:

1. Go to https://build.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/trunk/wp-includes/js/tinymce

2. Download wp-tinymce.js.gz and tinymce.min.js

3. Upload/replace these two files in your /wp-includes/js/tinymce folder

4. Empty your cache

It should work!

@xavier Masse

Worked like a charm! Thanks so much for sharing the info.

@xavier Masse

I thought i was the only one with this problem on the planet, and that it was me, but it was TinyMCE actually ??

Thanks – It works now.

And thanks to @doncullen here https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/36545, for making effort and author of Tiny of course for quick solution.

Rok

Thank you @xavier – I hate using Safari – so this was super helpful!

de-activated smart words plugin in Chrome. Problem solved for me