Try manually emptying and refreshing your browser cache.
What box, exactly, was it you resized?
I tried refreshing browser and clearing cache – just goes back to the size it wants to. It’s the main description box… so it’s the box that appears directly below the title when adding a new post or page.
I’ve tried viewing my dashboard in two different browsers (Google Chrome and Firefox) with the same result – so it’s not specifically my browser cache.
It almost seems as though wordpress has “saved” these settings as default now??
Do you mean the content editor? The place where you create the content for posts/pages? The TinyMCE editor… with all the buttons like bold, italic, etc.?
What version of WP are you using?
Here is the link from WP trac which outlines the issue:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23042#comment:7
But, as you can see it’s a few months old.. and it seems they may have fixed this.
I’ll keep looking.. but what’s your WP version? Are you on 3.5.2?
WordPress 3.5.2.
It’s only happening in this site’s dashboard.
I tried logging into another wordpress site, and it’s totally normal there.
I also tried updating a couple plugins that are out of date to see if that would help, but it didn’t.
Hmmmm…. I’m really not sure what to suggest here…
My research indicates the value is stored in the database, and passed along via a browser cookie… and that setting a database value won’t survive a post update.
So, let’s try “closing shop” with your current browser. And log in from a completely different browser… and see if you can get a reasonable value back in there.
I am still not able to get the box back to normal size. I have tried different browsers, clearing cache and cookies, and even tried a completely different computer with a different browser. Unfortunately, it still is about 10 times longer than it should be on the page.
Ok, well I found a solution. Probably not the best solution, but it worked. Using Firebug, I found that somehow in the css, it had set the content editor at 5000px in height. So, I added my own css to counteract that setting by targeting the editor in the wp-includes/css/editor.min.css file.
I added the following code:
#wp-content-editor-container.wp-editor-container textarea#content.wp-editor-area{
height:350px !important;
}
Editor is forced back to normal!
