themightyant

Hi another 123reg customer here I have a possible solution that worked for me and a few others too.

Go into Your settings -> General section of your admin.
In Site URL or Home URL is there a colon ‘:’ ?

I had one added by 123reg, removing the colon bought back the visual editor.

For those more advanced users you can check this also through phpMyAdmin. in the wp_options table look for siteurl

I hope it works for you too

My pleasure higltypig, it’s nice to be able to give back after getting help here in the past.

Hi, I have a possible solution that worked for me.

Go into Your settings -> General section of your admin.
In Site URL or Home URL is there a colon ‘:’ ? removing the colon bought back the visual editor.

For those more advanced users you can check this also through phpMyAdmin. in the wp_options table look for siteurl

I hope it works for you too

Hi another 123reg customer here I have a possible solution that worked for me.

Go into Your settings -> General section of your admin.
In Site URL or Home URL is there a colon ‘:’ ?

I had one added by 123reg, removing the colon bought back the visual editor.

For those more advanced users you can check this also through phpMyAdmin. in the wp_options table look fro siteurl

I hope it works for you too

Apologies to everyone, I had completely forgotten about this thread as I found an interim fix (CK editor) and then went on holiday. This was truly not my intention, i’m usually pretty OCD about finding a fix and understanding it. So to pick up and finally resolve the thread for anyone else who has the exact same problem.

Recently I had another client who was also hosted with 123reg and the same problem occurred again. (with a newer version of wordpress, 3.2.1) This got me to look into the problem once more.

As it turned out they both had different fixes, the newer one my fault

The original problem website
The website was in a subfolder and the siteurl had had a colon ‘:’ added on the end eg: https://www.mysite.com:
This was fixed by going into phpmyadmin and changing the siteurl in the wp_options table.
NOTE: to be honest this MAY have been possible through the settings -> general tab in the admin, I didn’t check first.

Huge thanks to muncken for this tip in this thread
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/missing-visual-editor-2/page/2?replies=71

Second website
This was a mistake on my part (I had added a wrong bit of code to my functions.php file while trying to get the ‘hr’ horizontal rule tag to show in the visual editor, changing the theme fixed it and allowed me to narrow down the source.

Same problem, unrelated solutions in the end however it had the bonus of getting me to fix the original problem and come back here.

Resolved! Many thanks for all your help

Hi Angela, as a temporary fix you can temporarily raise the supported WP version until an update is available. To do this follow the following instructions:

• Log into your admin
• Click Plugins -> Editor
• In the drop-down menu ‘select plugins to edit’ Choose qTranslate and click Select
• Click on the file qtranslate.php
• If you search (Ctrl+F) in your browser for 3.2 you should find a line that says define(‘QT_SUPPORTED_WP_VERSION’, ‘3.2’);
• Change this to read 3.2.1 eg:(‘QT_SUPPORTED_WP_VERSION’, ‘3.2.1‘);
• Click update file
• I’m not sure whether the next part is necessary but it worked for me
• In the list of qtranslate files now click readme.txt
• You will see two lines that say ‘Requires at least’ and ‘Tested up to’
• Make sure both of these are 3.2.1 too and Click Update file

If you get anything wrong you can always reinstall the plugin

Hi t-p this is not his thread, so he can’t mark it ‘resolved’ it is now midnight in the UK, I will try the most recent fix in the morning, fingers crossed it will work, I have tried every other suggested solution to no avail.
Many thanks
theMightyAnt

Hi Werendle, thanks for the suggestion. I’m glad you got your problem sorted. However this doesn’t sort this problem as there is NO visual editor at all (see image link on flickr) so no show/hide kitchen sink button to click.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60163908@N04/5515622066/

Thanks for the support though, I appreciate it.

Rudha-an,
you should check with another browser. There were some others on this forum who were saying that it only happened in some. This may or may not differentiate your problem from mine. Good luck

Hi Rudha-an,
Have you tried with other browsers too (eg:Google Chrome) or is this limited to Firefox and IE8?

Hi Aaron, thanks for the input.
I am not running cForms but have looked through my other plugins options to see if there was anything similar. There wasn’t.

Shouldn’t disabling all plugins (via renaming the Plugins folder) negate the need for this anyway?

I am going to try and install a fresh blog on the same server to try and ascertain whether it is server specific. I am a little tied up with another website launch today but will report back asap.

In the meantime if anyone has any further ideas i’d love to hear them.

Hi Rev. Voodoo,thanks for the prompt response.
No other WP installs on that server. It is on shared Linux hosting with 123-reg.co.uk I have updated seven other sites with no problem and am hesitating updating another 15 or so until I know what the problem is with this one in case the problem occurs again.

Hi t-p, I hope you had a good weekend.

While I appreciate the suggestions, I have already tried ALL of these as I had mentioned in my first post.
Yes to plugins, Mater list & reinstalling WordPress manually.

I should say that I am not new to WordPress I am a Web Developer who has built dozens of WP websites for clients. As such I checked the forums and worked at the problem BEFORE starting this thread as solutions are usually already here. I only posted AFTER I had tried all of the potential solutions I could find without any progress.

Thank you for trying though.

Hi t-p,
thanks for the suggestions however as I mentioned in my initial post I have already tried ALL three of these and none of them have worked.
Just to clarify, in addition to what I mentioned above, I have already tried

• Increasing the memory available for PHP
• Deactivating ALL plugins (by renaming the plugins folder and replacing it with an empty one
• Switched to Twenty Ten theme
• In addition I tried renaming the themes folder and replaced with an empty one

None of the above have worked.

Temporary Fix
In the meantime, for anyone else who is experiencing the same problem, I have installed the CKeditor (by CKSource) which uses a different visual editor than the default wordPress one. While this works for the moment this is not a fix.

If anyone else has any suggestions I would love to hear them or if anyone has solved this problem what steps did you take to resolve it.

Many thanks

Fixed. Moving the htaccess file to the root direcory allows normal 301 redirects and preserves the permalink structure