FYI: this is only happening on one site. The other upgraded site is working fine.
I tried deleting and re-uploading the wp_admin and wp_includes directories. Any thoughts?
Also, I do have my user preferences set to use the visual editor… I tried turning that off, saving, then turning it back on and saving again… no luck 🙁
I have the same problem. No solution, but see: “I Can only write with html.”
What’s most strange is that this is only happening on one of the sites I upgraded. I even tried copying the files from one site to the other, in case they had become corrupted somehow. No love.
I have absolutely no idea if this will be of any help to anyone (or if it relates to what is happening with others), but this happened to me today after I uploaded the cforms II plugin. I couldn’t understand why all of a sudden the visual editor disappeared. The visual tab was highlighted, but only html was displayed, and when I clicked on the html tab, the entire post field disappeared. So then I not only deactivated the plugin, but totally deleted it (which was huge btw), and as a result, everything went back to normal again. Which kind of makes me sad because I really liked that plugin, but that’s another story. =/
I didn’t have that plugin running, but I had several. I deactivated them all and tries again- no change 🙁 Thanks for mentioning it, though.
I’ve had a similar problem and have possibly found one solution. I’d love to hear if anyone else can reproduce this…
Check the wp-config.php file and see if there are any blank lines at the end of the file. If there are, delete everything after the last character of code, clear your browser cache and try again.
It doesn’t sound like the sort of thing that would cause problems but it’s fixed 4 of my sites so far with various problems disappearing after this fix. The common symptoms I had with all sites were that a) TinyMCE Advanced was present and enabled but not displaying in the edit page and b) The default visual editor only shows html code
Ozbigben, I tried it and it didn’t fix things on my end. Thanks, though.
Any ideas? This is driving me nuts.
Hey ozbigben, I got your solution to work! I had to do it a little differently, but it worked.
Before, I had been opening the wp_config file in ftp and editing it there. What worked was downloading it, editing it, then re-uploading it to the site. For some reason my ftp program was re-inserting the spaces.
Thanks!
That was the way I was editing them (download – edit – upload). Thanks for letting me know it worked for someone else too.
One extra twist I had on one site was that after editing wp-config.php I had to uninstall and reinstall TinyMCE Adv.
Nothing I tried worked, including the suggestions here. Then tonight I upgraded to 2.6.1, using, for the first time, the “WordPress Automatic Upgrade” plugin — and the WYSIWYG editor reappeared. I don’t know if the fix was due to the upgrade itself or to using the “Automatic Upgrade” plugin (thereby not making mistakes).
