Quick note: I tried all the suggestions people provided and even after disabling all my plugins I still had the problem. It was not until I notice one person mention that WP-Stats-Dashboard caused their problem that I decided just to deactivate that one plugin. And it worked.
It is strange that deactivating all plugins did not work but deactivating WP-Stats-Dashboard did.
But what the heck is that?
@kbarncat – Just woke up on this side of the world to find that upgrading to 3.1.1 has fixed my visual editor issues. Hope you have some success soon 🙂
Cool!!! YAY!!! Maybe tomorrow, I’ll have the courage to try again –
I sat out for a month, during which my hosting company transferred to a new set of servers run by another company. Presto. Everything worked. So I wasn’t crazy, and I wasn’t stupid. Now, it’s all good. Nothing I did helped. It took the universe shifting.
Thanks very much muncken. Your tip on changing the sitreurl in the wp_options table worked for me!
I have my wordpress installed in a sub directory called “site” but the site url was set to mywebsite.com:/site. All I did was remove the “:” so it is now mywebsite.com/site
Now I can see and use the visual editor again : )
For info, my server is linux on 123reg. Hope this helps someone else.
Hi elastiboy Im really clueless as to what the wp_options table even is but im also on linux on 123reg and having the same problem with no visual editor. Could I ask a huge favour and ask that you walk me through the steps you took above? I have my wordpress in a subdirectory called “blog”. once i open that directory, what do i do from there please? I would be so grateful for your kind help…
Kim
May I say again that I tried all the little tricks to no avail. When my hosting service moved to a whole new server array (and by that time, WordPress had gone 3.1.1) everything worked. So it may be that you can try everything under the sun, and you’ve got a server problem. Just sayin’ – so that you won’t eventually think you’re losing your mind.
Ah i fixed it guys! I went into settings, general settings, removed the “colon” making it an absolute path and it worked! Hooray! 🙂
Had this issue with an upgrade to 3.2.1 – just thought I’d let anyone with a similar problem know that in my case, disabling the plugin Embedly cured the problem.
I second what Roseberry said go into Settings -> General settings and if there is a colon ‘:’ in the end of the Site URL eg: http://www.mysite.com/wordpress: then remove it.
Seems to have worked for quite a few people
