Have you tried:
– deactivating all plugins (yes, all) to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s). Don’t forget the ones in mu-plugins if you have one. If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.
– switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
Yes I’ve done all of the above and it doesn’t seem to make any different…all the buttons appear on the visual editor and it appears to think the contents there as I can scroll down in it but there isn’t anything there (I’ve even tried selecting all just in case it’s white!)
that’s odd…it wasn’t just now, it was working when I first posted…all the config files are still there too
It was the mysql server going down…bad timing!
You have script errors one with superfish. If you run IE and turn on F12 developer tools or FF and turn on Firebug you can debug your backend to see where the problem is.
99% of the time there is a conflict with javascripts which can occur sometimes even when a plugin is disabled. The other 1% is a bad upload to the server like a corrupted file or having ftp set to binary.
Thanks however I’m on a Mac so don’t have Internet Explorer…I have Chrome and Safari if that’s useful
With Safari you can use Web Inspector Ctrl+Alt+I
Thanks. I had a look and deleted the line (jQuery) from line 120 and that’s fixed the visual editor.
I don’t think it’s broke anything else!
Scrap that! It’s not working again…I’m pretty sure it’s something with that Javascript but I’ve no idea how to fix it…any ideas from using the web inspector yourself?
Thank you, I really appreciate your help
I’m pretty sure it’s something with that Javascript but I’ve no idea how to fix it
That is beyond my scope. You can go back to the creator – the error in “superfish” is coming from your theme, delicate/js/superfish.js. The other error is coming from a plugin, word-press-file-monitor. Also there are some html errors-you need to use <br /> instead of <br> around line 308 and the amazon script. But just deleting a line of code is not the way to go.
But all this effects the front end and likely the back end but only you can debug that.
First things first. You cannot run a site with javascript errors. It will at the very least make it slow or non-functional. If the js errors are not the cause of the dashboard problems then the next step is to delete the wp-admin and wp-includes folders. DO NOT delete the wp-content folder. Download fresh copies of wp and upload new wp-admin and wp-includes to the server.
Thanks. I think I’ve solved it. In chrome I’ve certainly fixed the JS error and everything still seems to be working. I’ve also got the visual editor back.
Now doing a Phpmyadmin search and replace to sort out the
to
Thank you for your help
I can’t work out the search and replace syntax properly I’m trying
UPDATE ywr_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, ‘
‘,
‘); but I get
ERROR: Unknown Punctuation String @ 71
STR: />
SQL: UPDATE ywr_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, ‘
‘,
‘);
SQL query:
UPDATE ywr_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, ‘
‘,
‘);
MySQL said:
#1064 – You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘
‘)’ at line 1
