TinyMCE Visual/HTML toggle doesn't work on WP3.1 Magic Fields 1.5.3

i just gave Britney 1 star because of that wall of text!

Ok, so I fixed this problem. In short, it was caused by orphaned field entries in the wp_mf_panel_custom_field table. If you delete the orphaned entries (be careful!), the Visual/HTML buttons will once again work properly.

If you’re interested in the details:
Basically, since I have a WP Multisite setup, I initially was creating write panels and fields for each site, before I realized that Magic Fields currently has a set of write panels that are shared across all sites (I believe this is a bug that’s on the developers’ list). When I realized I was duplicating write panels, I deleted the extra panels, but somehow the fields I had created got left in wp_mf_panel_custom_field. So I ended up with several custom fields that had the duplicate names in wp_mf_panel_custom_field. This, in turn, was causing the bug with TinyMCE and the Visual/HTML buttons–basically, because there were multiple custom field entries in the database with the same name, when I went to edit one of those fields on a page, multiple spans would be created that contained the TinyMCE iframe (the span ids were based on the custom field name, like so: magicfields_FIELDNAME_1_1_parent). So the TinyMCE javascript code to switch between the HTML view (textarea) and Visual view (TinyMCE iframe) was showing/hiding only one of these spans, and the other one was staying visible on top and blocking the HTML view from ever showing.

So, if you are having this problem and want to fix it, you’ll have to jump into your database and delete some table rows by hand. This is dangerous, so only do this if you are comfortable doing so!

First make a list of the custom fields that are in use (not orphaned):
* In the WordPress dashboard, go to the Magic Fields Write Panels page: /wp-admin/admin.php?page=MagicFieldsMenu
* For each of your write panels, click on Edit Fields/Groups
* For every “Group Name / Field Label,” hover over the link and look at the custom-field-id querystring variable
* Keep track of all these IDs.

Now, in your favorite database editor/view (I use phpmyadmin for MySQL):
* Open up your WordPress database and browse the wp_mf_panel_custom_field table
* The “id” column contains the custom-field-ids that you recorded earlier. If you see IDs that aren’t in the list you made, they are orphaned. If they have the same “name” as ones that aren’t orphaned, it will cause the problem outlined in this thread.
* At this point, if you’re comfortable, delete the rows that contain the orphaned fields. I’d strongly suggest first backing up your database, or at least recording the info for the rows you are deleting so you can restore them if you did something wrong.

Good luck!

@hotgluemedia, are there any repeated names in the wp_mf_panel_custom_field table?
Even if you’re not running multisite, and even if none of the fields are orphaned, if two have the same name then there will be collision (I think).

Ok, 2 issues here:

1) Visual/HTML toggle buttons don’t work on some magic fields.
2) TinyMCE is stripping out paragraph and break tags.

The 1st issue is unresolved (still looking into it, @hotgluemedia).

For the 2nd issue, two questions for @autumnmist:
* Does this problem only happen to magic field write panels, or does it also happen to the page’s main editable content area (the TinyMCE panel at the top of the edit page)?
* Do you have any other TinyMCE-related plugins installed? I have the TinyMCE Advanced plugin installed, and it has an option to “Stop removing the p and br tags when saving and show them in the HTML editor.” It works well for me.

@autumnmist, did you apply the temporary fix @hunk suggested at the top of this thread (commenting out the tinymce init line)? When I did that, I had problems with p and br tags.