No visual editor, white text after 3.8.1 – no solutions work

  • Howdy
    So after upgrading to 3.8.1, my text in the editor is white on white background, it shows up as html code (when I select it to see it), and the visual / text tabs dont actually work.
    I’ve tried the following:
    – disabling all plugins
    – changing to default theme
    – manual re-install of wordpress by deleting, then re-uploading wordpress files including wp-admin and wp-includes
    – manually re-installing tincymce files
    – disabling / re-enabling the visual editor in user settings
    – installing ‘use google libraries’ plugin
    – adding define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false); to wp-config (dont see how this would help unless installing from scratch)

    with all of these i have tried clearing my browser cache, and using different computers.
    nothing seems to work.
    the closest i can get, when i disable the visual editor, the edit page seems to load fine and i can see all the text.

    Does anyone have any other clues what could be going on?

    Thanks
    link to screenshot https://anony.ws/i/2014/02/09/3cKXm.png

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  • Thread Starter nogginj

    (@nogginj)

    I have made weird progress…
    In another thread, I read to switch to a new theme, edit the page/post, then reactivate my current theme.
    I switched to 2014, edited the page with an html comment <!--yadayada--> then hit edit.
    The page went blank.
    I went to my dashboard, switched back to my theme, and all seems fine. even the other pages seem to show with the proper text and the editor visible. However my problem page, it just brought up a blank screen, like a php error.

    The only way I was able to fix it, luckily, I had that same editor window opened on another computer. I copy/pasted the html code, deleted the page (which also resulted in a white screen of death), then recreated the page from scratch.

    What a hell of a bug – I hope this helps someone.

    Kimball31

    (@kimball31)

    I have the same problem, on one page. After upgrading to 3.8.1, the text in the editor is white (#FFF) on white background, as html code on the text tab. The visual tab will not work on this page.

    As a temporary work around I updated line 1 in the styles sheet: wp-includes/css/editor.min.css
    change…
    .js .tmce-active .wp-editor-area{color:#FFF}
    to…
    .js .tmce-active .wp-editor-area{color:#333}

    I’ll continue to poke around to see what I can find.

    OK, driving me nuts…. without changing anything on my site I had just ONE page that does not show visual or text editing, not even white text, other pages ok and after updating to 4.0 still the same problem. Switched off all plugins and changed theme but still the same in the 20/10 theme…..

    Any more ideas

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