White text / invisible text in visual editor on admin panel

This problem occurred for me sometime within the last month on a what was previously a perfectly working WP site. I followed the advice on another post and re-uploaded the wp-includes directory and that solved the problem.

I had not made any changes to the site, but I did see a few user registrations in since it had last worked. I am wondering if someone intentionally altered my site through a vulnerability.

BTW – that was a WP 2.9.2 site.

Apologies for reviving a long-dead entry, but I wanted to ensure that anyone coming up on this while searching for a fix for the white text on white background would see this (as this is the second entry in Google for “white text in wordpress editor”. The problem for me was the PS Disable Autoformatting plugin: in the file /wp-content/plugins/ps-disable-auto-formatting/js/280/ps_editor.js it sets the color to white, among a bunch of other unexplainable things. If you edit that file and comment out the line that looks like this:

$(‘#content’).css(‘color’, ‘white’);

you should be all set.

I have this same issue, and I have looked for both the “.js .theEditor” fix and the “ps-disable-auto-formatting” issue, and neither appears to be the case.

If I highlight all text in Visual Mode, I can see that the HTML tags are all showing as well.

I am running WP 3.3 and have not had this issue up until this release. I have not changed any plugins since.

Another, perhaps related, symptom is that all of my TinyMCE editor buttons have disappeared.

I’m having the same problem with 3.3.1 after upgrade.

I just fixed my problem it was related to failed plugin update which I was ignoring. I re-ran the update, and it installed fine. Now my text and buttons came back. It was the Subscribe 2 plugin, which has a tinymce button, so maybe that was why the buttons disappeared.

I think I just fixed the same problem in my WordPress 3.3.1 installation.
I edited CSS in /wp-includes/css/editor-buttons.css.
From: .js .tmce-active .wp-editor-area{color:white;}
To: .js .tmce-active .wp-editor-area{color:black; /* bwh */}

This problem has been a little strange in the sense it is inconsistent. The visual page editor worked fine to create several pages, and then I came back a few days later and text was invisible (white on white). I deleted all my plugins, restored the original WP 3.3 files, and used the default theme, all without success. Then, thanks to Firefox extensions I found a fixable CSS control, but since the original CSS file never changed, I think I’m just masking another ugly problem elsewhere.

Anyway, I hope this helps someone else, too. ~Barry~

I’m having the same problem. Invisible text but with coding in Visual Editor which is very strange. I tried the solutions except for editing CSS which I do not know how to do. ?? Firefox crashes on my comp.

I use studio press genesis framework. I dont know if that is the source if people above are using as well.

Please let me know if someone comes up with a solution for the root cause.

Thank you!!!

Please post your own topic.

@gusrounick If you have access to the folders in which WordPress is installed, then look for the file /wp-includes/css/editor-buttons.css

1. Edit the file ‘editor-buttons.css’
2. look for the text “.js .tmce-active .wp-editor-area{color:white;}”
3. change the stuff inside the curly braces from “color:white” to “color:black”

I can’t help with firefox not working; firefox was only mentioned as just one possible route to figuring out which file to edit. But now ya know the file name, so commence hacking. ??
My situation was on a self-hosted bog-standard vanilla WordPress 3.3.1 clean installation for a new domain name.
For me, things are working better since I added the line “define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’,false);” to the main WordPress configuration file (wp-config). But this is a band-aid that masks problems in loading scripts, not a real or long-term fix.
Good luck, Barry