Title: Visual Editor in Pages showing code
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Visual Editor in Pages showing code

 *  [Sculley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sculley/)
 * (@sculley)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-in-pages-showing-code/)
 * In Posts and Pages, now when we click on Visual tab we are getting code/html.
   Don’t remember changing anything. I checked the user profile and the “Disable
   the visual editor when writing” is not checked. I also cleared cache and deactivated
   plugins and reactivated but nothing worked.
 * The WISIWIG icons are not on the top of the Visual Editor either.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-in-pages-showing-code/#post-1734142)
 * 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-specific problems?
 *  Thread Starter [Sculley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sculley/)
 * (@sculley)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-in-pages-showing-code/#post-1734152)
 * Thanks Esmi and thanks for your service on this forum. Yes, I mentioned that 
   above. Probably should have used bullets to make post easier to follow. I deactivated
   then reactivated plugins. I’ll try the default theme test but the site was working
   fine and then just stopped. The only thing I did was add some images to NextGEN
   Gallery which had already been in use.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-in-pages-showing-code/#post-1734153)
 * Did you deactivate all of the plugins at the same time?
 *  Thread Starter [Sculley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sculley/)
 * (@sculley)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-in-pages-showing-code/#post-1734154)
 * No, I think just the ones I added that day (woops, that’s right that was the 
   other change I made): wp auto upgrade, wp auto backup and scissors. I can try
   deactivating all of them.
 * I just added Dean’s FCKEditor For WordPress; it replaces the default editor. 
   It works well. Is that just a bandaid? Should I continue to troubleshoot the 
   problem?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-in-pages-showing-code/#post-1734178)
 * Deactivate **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).
 *  Thread Starter [Sculley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sculley/)
 * (@sculley)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-in-pages-showing-code/#post-1734191)
 * Thanks!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Sculley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sculley/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-in-pages-showing-code/#post-1734191)
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