Wordpress 2.7 visual editor broken? Longview, WA

Wordpress 2.7 visual editor broken?

Having problems with Wordpress 2.7 TinyMCE editor after an upgrade?

Here’s what worked for me…

Disable all your plugins
Delete your browser cache
Open up the edit on one of your posts
Activate your plugins one by one while refreshing the edit page between plugin activations.

Think about which plugins you use that imbed themselves into the TinyMCE editor. My culprit was Kimili Flash Embed, but many others could potentially cause the same problem.

Tags: Kimili Flash Embed, plugins, TinyMCE, wordpress 2.7 visual editor

4 comments about “Wordpress 2.7 visual editor broken?.”

Mark Frost — December 29th, 2008

Thanks for the help. I was kinda shocked when it just randomly didn’t load. Your advice fixed it right away!
Alain — February 3rd, 2009

Thank you!

KFE was also the problem for me, I upgraded to 2.01 and TinyMCE editor works fine now.
Woolf — April 18th, 2009

I just installed WordPress 2.7 and never have the option for using the visual editor. I have searched the Internet far and wide for a solution and have not found any that help me (or at least that I understand).

Many suggest that I need to make sure that the TinyMCE option is activated or turned on in the settings. I have looked and looked and do not see any setting to activate or turn on TinyMCE.

I only have one plugin installed. It is the one that came with WordPress and is called Akismet 2.2.3. I have tried deactivating it and then flushing out my browser cache as described above but this does not help.

I have tried my site in both Firefox 3 and IE7 but neither one will show me anything other than the HTML editor.

I think I have located the code where the TinyMCE editor is supposed to be added. the post.php file located in the /wp-admin/includes/folder has text starting in line 1108 that says, “Adds the TinyMCE editor used on the Write and Edit screens.” I don’t know if I need to modify this in some way (and if I do need to modify it, I’d have no idea what I should modify it to).

Does anybody have a clue as to why the TinyMCE visual editor just will not work at all in WordPress 2.7? If so, I’d love to hear how you’d fix it.

Thanks,

Woolf
admin — April 20th, 2009

Woolf, Seems like a long shot, but is JavaScript enabled in your browsers?

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