Visual editor not working, even on clean install

  • jasonbradberry

    (@jasonbradberry)


    12 years, 2 months ago

    I’ve been having trouble with the visual editor and any custom meta boxes that use TinyMCE not working. I’m using WordPress 3.8.1.

    So I’ve just installed a fresh install of WordPress to test the issue, and the visual editor is not working in Chrome or Firefox.

    I then added define('SCRIPT_DEBUG', true); to wp-config.php and the issue resolved itself.

    What should I do next? I assume this is a bug? Should I add the debug line in wp-config.php to my live site?

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    I assume this is a bug?

    There are no known bugs of this type in WP 3.8.1. Try re-uploading all files & folders – except the root wp-config.php & .htaccess files and the wp-content folder – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

    Thread Starter jasonbradberry

    (@jasonbradberry)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Ok, I’ve looked into this further and I was wrong about script debugging resolving the issue. Not sure why it seemed to fix the issue at first, but it’s back again now and adding/removing the debug line in wp-config.php makes no difference.

    I am accessing the WordPress admin via a local server. When I access the admin directly via MAMP as the local server, there are no problems, but when I access via Mixture as the local server, the problem occurs. I think it’s something to do with how Mixture’s local server handles processing of javascript, possibly along the lines of this comment on another similar post:

    http://support.mixture.io/discussions/problems/4572/r?go=aHR0cDovL3dvcmRwcmVzcy5vcmcvc3VwcG9ydC90b3BpYy9mcmVzaC0zNjEtaW5zdGFsbC12aXN1YWwtZWRpdG9yLWFkZC1tZWRpYS1ub3Qtd29ya2luZy13aGl0ZS10ZXh0P3JlcGxpZXM9OSNwb3N0LTQ2NzUwOTE=

    For now, I’ll just use MAMP!

    airpreston

    (@airpreston)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    I was just searching for a solution to this issue, as I was having the same problem. I had just installed Advanced SystemCare to help keep my computer as clean as possible. One of the extensions it added to Chrome was “Surfing Protection”. Once I disabled this, the visual editor was back to working just fine. I happened across this solution, as my Google Ads weren’t displaying. I then realized that I had an ad blocker extension loaded as well. So, check your browser extensions and ad-ons…therein might lie the culprit. Hope it helps!

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