2.8 upgrade killed visual editor

As to my previous comment about Firefox-related issues and add-ons:

Google Gears was definitely the culprit in my case. Disabling it fixed everything.

i disable google gears and nothing happend. i have done the other thinks and nothing happend. how can i repair it. it sucks.

timo

@leip11, et al.

Disable Gears, restart Firefox, flush the cache (private data), then restart Firefox a second time.

If that doesn’t work, try starting Firefox in its Safe Mode, which doesn’t load any add-ons. If the Visual Editor loads, then the problem is due to another add-on. If not, you can try some of the other suggestions people have posted in this and other forums posts discussing this issue.

I just installed

https://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin/

My editor is now working…

:::sigh:::

As per the suggestion on the first page, I have added the line to my wp-config.php and it has now started working.

My site is https://www.artiss.co.uk

The automated install of 2.8 didn’t work so I did it all manually.

Modifying the wp-config.php worked for me …

Added: ‘define( ‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false );’

Thanks azaozz!

It seems like much of this is now straightened out, one way or another. At least for me, there were 2 different issues.

1. a missing file after upgrading with WAU plug-in (which also had failed to delete old files, but that didn’t seem to cause problems)

2. browser caches (most browsers AFAIK) slow on flushing out the old and bringing in the new

Also, traffic on this thread appears to have tapered off with most issues resolved.

I’ll leave this open for a little longer if someone else needs to post on this thread. If not, then this thread will soon be marked resolved and close. Fair warning.

Note: If you were using the “Use Google Libraries” plugin, then it can cause these issues. Upgrade the plugin to fix the problem.

Other plugins that change the script loading characteristics may have the same problem. Disabling script concatenation will seemingly solve the problem in these cases, but the problem lies with the plugin, so that plugin needs to be corrected, as there may be other issues being caused by this sort of thing as well.

I had the same problem after upgrading to WP 2.8, but only on one of my three wordpress sites. Even after completely re-uploading a brand new 2.8 install, still happened.

the ‘define( ‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false );’
addition fixed it.

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Ok, I got it to work… Here is what I did…

In the TinyMCE folder — I DELETED… ALL… “The Files!” NOT folders.

I uploaded ALL the files (NOT FOLDERS) from the WordPress 2.8 – I DOWNLOADED from the “www.remarpro.com website.”

ALL seems to work now — with the editor.

There were missing files and files that were not needed it seems.

Earlier I upgraded another blog from 2.3.1 to 2.8 – MANUALLY. All worked fine as the proper files were there – it seems.

Hope this helps you all!

Roz Fruchtman
https://www.SayItWithEcards.com
https://www.SayItWithEcards.com/blog

Ok…I’m new to all of this and this is my first wordpress upgrade. I am unable to edit my them. Everytime I try anything, my entire computer crashes. I’m getting so annoyed. What do I do? Am I going to have to pay someone to fix all my sites everytime there’s an upgrade. What happens if I just keep 2.7? Is that a big deal? I think I’m going to have my host restore my site the way it was yesterday and just keep 2.7 .. can i do that?

I’m really annoyed with this. I really liked wordpress until yesterday.

Ok, I got it to work… Here is what I did…

In the TinyMCE folder — I DELETED… ALL… “The Files!” NOT folders.

I uploaded ALL the files (NOT FOLDERS) from the WordPress 2.8 – I DOWNLOADED from the “www.remarpro.com website.”

ALL seems to work now — with the editor.

There were missing files and files that were not needed it seems.

Earlier I upgraded another blog from 2.3.1 to 2.8 – MANUALLY. All worked fine as the proper files were there – it seems.

Hope this helps you all!

The above is what fixed it for me.

The above fix worked for me as well. Replaced all the tinymce files with copies freshly downloaded from WordPress. Apparently the automatic upgrade plugin missed the wp-tinymce.js.gz file.

Don’t forget to refresh the page in your browser (ctl+F5) to load the visual toolbar after uploading the above file.

Thanks for posting the tips!

I used the “$zip = $compress_scripts ? 0 : 1;” from opsiado above – worked fine.

Weird though…