2.8 upgrade killed visual editor

Roz Fruchtman’s fix worked for us too — thank you Roz!

ok for all the non tech people that cross this post here’s what worked for me…

the fckeditor plug in is a way to bypass the situation… worked for me. download the plugin, activate it, and you’re in biz.

I tried a couple of the other solutions above and the only one that worked for me is this:

open your ftp client thingy (yep that’s what i call it cuz i’m a salesperson) and go into your main directory, highlight the wp-config.php file they refer to and download it to your desktop. open it in notepad or text editor and add the proposed code:

define( ‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false);

and put it right after you see this text:

<?php

mine was on the first line.

then save the file and upload it back to your main directory thru your ftp client that you use, such as filezilla.

that worked for me.

thanks to all the ingenious smart techy people who figured that out and all the other solutions…

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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!

The above is what fixed it for me.

Me too, thanks!

Thank you, guys ?? Your solution adding “define( ‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false);” worked marvelously. Now I don’t have to use a different browser *grin*…

define( ‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false );

Worked for me !!!

Tried all the steps above and still have this problem and is starting to piss my off abit, my time could be better spent elsewhere.

Also not sure if it related but i have noticed at the top of the edit posts screen behind the “list view” theres is some wierd looking tabs that are a little distorted.

PLEASE if anyone can help do so, as if i spend any more time running through hoops i might start losing my MIND ;P

https://www.graysonadams.com?p=493

Strange thing is that some of my sites are ok with 2.8.3 and others are not. Perhaps it depends also on the type of server configuration. I have one server where permissions need to be set to 777 if I want to change files and that it the place where the visual editor is not working, nor the dropdown menus in the admin area itself.
I tested in Chrome, Firefox, IE, it works nowhere.
I tried all measures I found regarding this subject on the forum, except installing an external editor plugin because it will not solve the menu problems. Nothing works.

I finally found the problem. It was the Kimili Flash plugin interfering with the admin section. I think it is best for all of you who can’t get it to work, to look for any plugin that is media related and turn it off and check.
Hope this helps for some of you.

I tried all that and even upgraded to TinyMCE Advanced and added the WP Superedit plug in.Finally got fed up and disabled the visual editor and now I can add pages and posts in html without problems in saving as draft or publishing or editing.

define( 'CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false );

Fixes the issue for me. It only occurs in Firefox, Chrome and IE display it okay.

Hi to everybody,

I’ve upgraded manually from 2.7.1 to 2.8.4 right now and I had the visual problem. I fixed it by adding:

define( ‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false );

to the config file.

I checked the ZIP and TAR file and in both versions the following files:
tiny_mce_config.php
tiny_mce_ext.js
tiny_mce_gzip.php
wordpress.css

are still missed.

I do not want to go through a WAU, I’ve already updated. This discussion is quite old so I wonder why nobody has added these files to the official download from WP-org.

If to add these files resolve the problem please give the opportunity to download them without going through the updating process again. I will then comment the line added to config.php.

Thanks
Gabi

The advice from user “rfruchtman” worked for me!

For those that skipped through all the posts to the end here, all I did was;
1) Simply download 2.8 manually (from the wordpress homepage) and unzip and navigate to the js/tinymce folder.

2) Copy the ENTIRE tinymce folder and paste it over the tinymce folder in my existing website.

3) Upload the new tinymce folder and its contents to your ftp.

4)Refresh cache and page and my wysiwyg and kitchen sink all appeared!

5) Hallelujah!

6) Wait a few weeks or months between wordpress minor upgrades so you don’t have to do all this crap in future!

azaozz’s suggestion to edit wp-config.php worked like a champion. I just dropped his suggested line in after the language definition line:

define (‘WPLANG’, ”);

and all is well. Thanks, azaozz!

Here’s what worked for me;

1) Delete entire folder WP-Includes from my host
2) Download update of wordpress through wp site by going to Tools – Upgrade – Download 2.8.4
3) Open downloaded wp folder and upload the WP-Includes folder to the host

That’s it. All that is being done is the wp-includes folder is being replaced. First delete the folder, then download and upload another wp-includes folder.

Any errors resulting from the first upgrade should be resolved by downloading the folder again.

Very frustrating and took a number of hours to sort, just happy it’s resolved now.