Title: Visual editor
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Visual editor

 *  [johnetta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnetta/)
 * (@johnetta)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-7/)
 * Cannot access the visual editor and its menu bar.
    the visual editor box is not
   checked.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-7/#post-1146524)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-related problems.
 *  – [renaming the plugins folder via FTP](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
 * – reading [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/279132](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/279132)
 * – disabling Google Gears if you have that running/installed within Firefox.
 *  Thread Starter [johnetta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnetta/)
 * (@johnetta)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-7/#post-1146578)
 * Thanks for the feedback and referral to support/topic/279132
 * -deactivated plugins–>no visual toolbar
 * -switching to default theme—>fear of doing as it would be my first time
    -renaming
   plugins–>same fear _didn’t find google gears installed/running
 * -automatic upgrade to 2.8.1–>visual editor/tool bar is now visible!
 *  [PBP_Editor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbp_editor/)
 * (@pbp_editor)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-7/#post-1146706)
 * Hello
 * I was having the same issue – the visual editor tab was visible but could not
   be selected. The visual editor disabled checkbox was unchecked.
 * I tried in IE and saw the following error.
 * Message: Object expected
    Line: 2 Char: 1 Code: 0 URI: /load-scripts.php?c=1&
   load=utils,editor&ver=2f8adb7975702d291df76afc40b144cd
 * Message: ‘switchEditors’ is null or not an object
    Line: 1122 Char: 1 Code: 0
   URI: /wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=32758
 * So my developer Axel looked into the hooks on load_scripts.php and figured out
   that 2.8.4 is concatenating scripts
 * 2.8 added concatenation for scripts… the concatenation needed to be disabled 
   for everything to work stable as before.
 * This is a minor performance enhancement on this release that does not cooperate
   will all web servers. We are on the Rackspace Cloud and it doesn’t seem to like
   that.
 * Do this to stop concatenation
 * You can add a setting in the wp-config.php file
    define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’,
   false );
 * Cheers
 *  [derrickteam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/derrickteam/)
 * (@derrickteam)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-7/#post-1146765)
 * > You can add a setting in the wp-config.php file
   >  define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’,
   > false );
 * Thank YOU!
 * I’ve tried everything I could find for days and could not fix this. Added that
   line an whoa, it all suddenly works.
 * Thank YOU again
    Dennis

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-7/#post-1146765)
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