WYSIWYG editor does not work with 2.1 !!!!!!

I face the same problem as thehuby. I have tried logging in from different networks, different computers and on both FF and IE and they all have the same problem – 2 tabs but no editor. I think the problem lies in the js files on my server. Unfortunately I don’t know enough of js to debug it.

Presently I am making do with the rich editor disabled and at least it allows me to blog still.

I have now got it working!

Whilst I had previously tried reinstalling WP without change, on this occassion is has worked by following some advice from TonyM (thanks TonyM!).

I downloaded a ‘new’ version of wordpress 2.1 (I had had the issue with this version of WP but redownloaded in case someone had made a minor tweak or change).

I chmodded the three WP directories to 777, created a .htaccess file in my blog folder (which is also root) and chmodded the .htaccess to 777 as well. The access rights I used may be overkill but its worked and that was my main concern!

Hope that helps somebody!

I managed to finally get the TinyMCE editor working after removing the ZenPress plugin.

Hooray!

I got mine working eventually after discovering that there were some javascript includes missing from the upload. It is important to look through the files you download and compare them with the files that you have uploaded to your host.
Maybe try using a better FTP client. Originally I had been using the one attached to Dreamweaver, but it obviously had problems with some files. Filezilla worked much better.
It seems the upgrade (2.1) itself is fine. You simply have to make sure that the files you put on your host site are a mirror image of the files on your computer.

Just to add my 2 cents… my visual editor was broken by Role Manager plugin version “1.4.5_wp2.1.” That plugin had been updated by someone for WP 2.1, but something about the recent changes caused it to interfere and throw a Javascript error, “tinyMCE not defined.”

Link to this plugin problem as a separate topic:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/103156

Update:

The place to get Role Manager for WP 2.0+ and 2.1+
im web gefunden — and many thanks to the webmaster there for having a page in English. ??

CHMOD wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce.js to 755, as in allow execution of this JavaScript file. This is logical and this works.

I’ve tried the solutions posted here on my 2.3 install which broke after moving it from one host to another. I’m wondering if there’s a stored path somewhere that’s causing this.

HA! I unchecked the ‘Use the visual editor when writing’ checkbox, saved, the profile, checked the box, saved again, went back to the editor and everything was fine. It’s caching something somewhere when that box is checked and the profile is saved, I betcha.

Thanks to those who said to make sure it was checked… this gave me the incentive to try this crazy tinkering.