Title: TinyMCE – Editor gone
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# TinyMCE – Editor gone

 *  [zuperfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zuperfly/)
 * (@zuperfly)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-editor-gone/)
 * Suddenly the TinyMCE editor disapeared from the WP backend. I just get a blank
   textarea. It worked before, has nothing to do with the browser I’m using and 
   I’m not sure if it appeared after the WP 2.0.2 update or before.

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 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-editor-gone/#post-395002)
 * What do you mean it disappeared from the backend? Do you mean the admin area,
   or the files for TinyMCE have gone? (The backend is the software that runs on
   your server, in this case WordPress).
 * You can try clearing the cache and refreshing, or check your settings, they may
   have something to do with it. First, check under your profile to see if the rich
   text editor is enabled, and then check under Options > Writing to see if the “
   users should see the rich text editor” is enabled.
 * I’m assuming this is your own copy of WordPress, and that you aren’t a contributor
   or editor without admin access?
 *  Thread Starter [zuperfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zuperfly/)
 * (@zuperfly)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-editor-gone/#post-395003)
 * By ‘backend’ I mean the wp-administration area. All the boxes you mentioned are
   checked, I’m logged in as the administrator and therefore I should see the editor,
   but that’s not the case.
 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-editor-gone/#post-395010)
 * Right, ok, sounds like something’s gone a bit funny, did you recently upgrde 
   or install a plugin, or anything like that?
 * Did you try clearing the cache, sometimes that can be the cause.
 *  Thread Starter [zuperfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zuperfly/)
 * (@zuperfly)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-editor-gone/#post-395014)
 * “Did you try clearing the cache, sometimes that can be the cause.”
    How can I
   do this?
 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-editor-gone/#post-395018)
 * When viewing the admin area, press ctrl+f5. Pressing f5 makes your browser refresh
   a page, but ctrl+f5 means it refreshes your page and overwrites the files in 
   your cache.
 * If that doesn’t work, come back here 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [zuperfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zuperfly/)
 * (@zuperfly)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-editor-gone/#post-395024)
 * I thought you meant a server cache or some WP cache .. as I wrote before, it’s
   not the browser. I even tried it with different browsers (Firefox, Camino), but
   none of them displays the editor. Of course I installed some plugins in the meantime,
   but I can’t say which one could be responsible for the missing editor.
 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-editor-gone/#post-395025)
 * Try disabling all the plugins and enabling only one at a time, that will show
   you if one of them is causing the problem, then you can tell the author of that
   plugin about the bug.
 * If that doesn’t work, you can try combinations of plugins, but that’s when it
   starts to get complicated :/
 *  Thread Starter [zuperfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zuperfly/)
 * (@zuperfly)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-editor-gone/#post-395027)
 * No success. I disabled ALL plugins, but the editor still doesn’t show up. Could
   it help if I upload/overwrite some config files in the wp-include directory? 
   I read about that in another context, but I’m not sure which file it was ..
 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-editor-gone/#post-395029)
 * It’s possible that something has gone wrong, yes. Re-uploading files might help.
 * Can I just check, are you seeing no formatting toolbar of any kind, or is there
   a basic one there?
 * If there’s nothing there, then I would imagine that re-uploading would help.
 *  Thread Starter [zuperfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zuperfly/)
 * (@zuperfly)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-editor-gone/#post-395031)
 * There’s nothing, only a blank textarea. Which files would you suggest to upload?
 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-editor-gone/#post-395035)
 * Let me see… try the wp-includes directory.
 * To be honest, I’m not entirely sure myself. There are a number of files that 
   are involved.
 *  Thread Starter [zuperfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zuperfly/)
 * (@zuperfly)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-editor-gone/#post-395036)
 * It’s back! I started with the tinymce directory, uploaded it again and now the
   editor is back. Weired. Thanks for your help!
 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-editor-gone/#post-395038)
 * Oh good 😀
 * Sometimes files are corrupted when they’re uploaded, so that might have been 
   it.
 * I’m glad it’s solved!
 *  [enzo386](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enzo386/)
 * (@enzo386)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-editor-gone/#post-395532)
 * I had this same issue as well, but reuploading seemed to fix it.

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