Hello 👋🏼
You can find the Classic Editor here and install it as you would any other plugin.
However, it would be worth spending a few minutes trying to resolve this – if only because the solution to your problem may help many others!
First of all, can you try clearing the cache from your browser (ideally use a different browser than you usually do)? If that doesn’t work, do you know how to display JavaScript errors? If you’re using Chrome, it will be View -> Developer -> JavaScript Console. If you start that and then go into the editor, it should (hopefully) display some errors. Cut and paste them here and it will give us a clue as to what may be going wrong.
5.0 *will* work fine, but the chances are that you simply have a conflict somewhere that’s causing it to stop (for example, an older version of Jetpack is known to cause this).
Hi, on one of my sites I have the same issue like @vipini: blank page after clicking “add new post” or “add new page”.
I tried to deactive all plugins, clear cache. It didn’t help.
I have 3 errors in console:
1) first appeared after logging-in:
Uncaught SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list (post-new.php:2039)
2) second and third errors appear after clicking “add new post”:
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier (post-new.php:2107)
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier (post-new.php:2203)
I suspect this is going to be either 1 of 2 issues – an bad installation or an issue caused by another plugin.
I’d therefore suggest deactivating all plugins. Does it work then? If it does, re-activate one at a time to identify the cause.
Also try switching to a different theme temporarily – Twenty Nineteen, for instance.
If neither of those resolve the issue, it would be worth re-installing WordPress again. If you need help with this process, let me know and I’ll provide some further detail.
Tested reinstalling wordpress and deactivated plugins but still having a blank page on page edits.
Having these errors on wordpress admin dashboard as well, might be related:
Uncaught SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list
19:19:51.725 backbone.min.js:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'extend' of undefined
at backbone.min.js:1
at backbone.min.js:1
at backbone.min.js:1
19:19:51.725 wp-backbone.min.js:1 Uncaught ReferenceError: Backbone is not defined
at wp-backbone.min.js:1
at wp-backbone.min.js:1
19:19:51.726 media-models.min.js:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'extend' of undefined
at Object.20 (media-models.min.js:1)
at b (media-models.min.js:1)
at media-models.min.js:1
at media-models.min.js:1
19:19:51.726 wp-plupload.min.js:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'Attachments' of undefined
at wp-plupload.min.js:1
at wp-plupload.min.js:1
19:19:51.736 media-views.min.js:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'l10n' of undefined
at Object.<anonymous> (media-views.min.js:1)
at b (media-views.min.js:1)
at media-views.min.js:1
at media-views.min.js:1
19:19:51.736 media-editor.min.js:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'settings' of undefined
at media-editor.min.js:1
at media-editor.min.js:1
19:19:51.737 media-audiovideo.min.js:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'settings' of undefined
at Object.<anonymous> (media-audiovideo.min.js:1)
at b (media-audiovideo.min.js:1)
at media-audiovideo.min.js:1
at media-audiovideo.min.js:1
19:19:51.737 mce-view.min.js:1 Uncaught ReferenceError: Backbone is not defined
at mce-view.min.js:1
at mce-view.min.js:1
19:19:51.742 wp-api.min.js:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'isFunction' of undefined
at wp-api.min.js:1
at wp-api.min.js:1
19:19:52.606 jquery.flot.resize.min.js:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'w' of undefined
at n (jquery.flot.resize.min.js:1)
at dispatch (load-scripts.php?c=1&load[]=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils,underscore,wp-util,wp-a11y,updates,jquery-ui-core,jquery-ui-widget,moxiejs,plupload&ver=5.0.1:3)
at r.handle (load-scripts.php?c=1&load[]=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils,underscore,wp-util,wp-a11y,updates,jquery-ui-core,jquery-ui-widget,moxiejs,plupload&ver=5.0.1:3)
@midnitedev do you have any custom code added in functions.php? For me this code caused error.
Yes, I do, lots of it actually. I’ll try minimizing it to see if that’s the cause of the issues.
For me that snippet caused error:
// Remove type attribute from script and style tags added by WordPress
add_filter('script_loader_tag', 'clean_script_tag');
function clean_script_tag($input) {
$input = str_replace("type='text/javascript' ", '', $input);
return str_replace("'", '"', $input);
}
I followed @pzxyz’s suggestion on testing the custom code for functions.php. Turns out, it was these 2 code snippets that were meant to optimize my results on web tools that were the culprit:
/***** Start: Defer parsing of javascript *****/
function defer_parsing_of_js ( $url ) {
if ( FALSE === strpos( $url, '.js' ) ) return $url;
if ( strpos( $url, 'jquery.js' ) ) return $url;
return "$url' defer='defer";
}
add_filter( 'clean_url', 'defer_parsing_of_js', 11, 1 );
/***** End: Defer parsing of javascript *****/
/***** Start: Remove query string from static resources *****/
function _remove_script_version( $src ){
$parts = explode( '?', $src );
return $parts[0];
}
add_filter( 'script_loader_src', '_remove_script_version', 15, 1 );
add_filter( 'style_loader_src', '_remove_script_version', 15, 1 );
/***** End: Remove query string from static resources *****/
I commented them out and got no errors anymore. Even got the blank page on editor issue resolved as well.
*Additional note: I was using the autoptimizer plugin and I had to disable minification on javascript and css files. This solved issues on console errors on post pages.
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This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by
midnitedev.
I am in big trouble with this problem – please help me asap!!!
Edit page was blank so tried updating Safari (not a solution), disabling plug-ins (not a solution) then madw a HUGE mistake by changing thmes to Twenty Ninteen as advise dabove and now I no longer have a website!!!!
FIRST OF ALL how do I get my theme back? Secondly what is the solution to the blank edit page if I have tried the above?
This website is crucial to my business and I fear I am losing every hour that this is not resolved.
Please help – thank you!!!!!!
@katherinefoodwisdom you have made a lot of errors being result of bad methodology of work with WP
1. Contact your hosting company maybe they have a daily backup of your page and can restore it.
2. Backup your page using some plugin. There’s a whole topic about it in Codex.
3. Do you have any custom code added in functions.php?
@pzxyz I had the exact same issue with the exact same snippet. Thank you, helped a lot!
