Rich Text Editor doesn’t work

  • I upgraded to WordPress 2.0.2 in February or March 2006. The rich text editor has never worked. I have both of the relevant boxes checked. I’ve tried unchecking the boxes, going to the write-post page and then re-checking the boxes. Still nothing. I’ve tried creating a new user, making sure all relevant boxes are checked and still nothing. I’m absolutely at a loss for why it isn’t working.

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  • what does “doesn’t work” mean though? What’s displayed instead?

    Any errors?

    What browser are you using?

    Thread Starter yashachan

    (@yashachan)

    There are no buttons. Only HTML can be used for formating. No errors that I know about, unless there’s some place to look that I have no knowledge of.

    https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/yashachan06/wp/WritePost.png
    This is what I see no matter what I have checked or unchecked.

    What browser are you using?

    Thread Starter yashachan

    (@yashachan)

    Currently, Firefox 1.5.0.7. When this first started, whatever Firefox version was common.

    Ok… 2 questions:

    1) Does “all relevant boxes” include the only one that really matters? Users -> Your Profile. Bottom-most checkbox should be checked.

    2) There are Firefox extensions that’ll kill off the wysiwyg editor. If you disable your FF extensions (temporarily) does that change anything?

    3) (I lied about 2 questions!) What if you view the site in IE?

    I’m setting up a new instance of WordPress 2.0.6 on a server at my university and finding a similar problem. When I use the “Write” feature on the Admin interface, I cannot view the rich text editor icons–instead, I can only view their textual equivalents, e.g., “img” instead of the image icon. This occurs in both Firefox and Internet Explorer.

    I’ve confirmed that the checkbox to use the rich text editor by default in Users->Your Profile is checked, and further I’ve confirmed that the Options->Writing checkbox “Users should use the visual rich editor by default” is checked. I’ve reloaded these windows multiple times, and nothing has changed that.

    But here’s the strange thing: I have also configured a new installation of WordPress 2.0.6 on my personal computer (where I have Apache and MySQL locally running) and the rich text editor shows up fine in both Firefox and IE.

    When I view my WordPress installation on my university server in Firefox, the Error Console says that TinyMCE is not defined. So for some reason TinyMCE is not being instantiated on my university server. I confirmed that the js and tinymce directories are world-readable. Is there some setting on my university server that could be messing it up? Incidentially, I’ve used Javascript on non-Wordpress files before on this same university server with no problem, so I know that the server handles Javascript without any problem (although as a client-side technology, server settings shouldn’t matter anyway, right?)

    Similar problem – I upgraded to 2.0.6 last week. Once a post is saved (Save or Save and Continue Editing) I lose rich text editor icons completely, and my entry switches to HTML formatting.
    My cursor shows the ‘hourglass’ and the browser (Firefox 2.0.0.1) suggests that it has not yet fully completed downloading the page (although the browser says ‘Done’ at the bottom).
    Hope that makes sense – advice welcomed

    An update: I’ve downloaded an installation of stand-alone TinyMCE on the same university server that’s been giving me problems with WordPress, and all the example files work fine. So it appears that my server is able to handle TinyMCE, just not TinyMCE embedded in WordPress?

    Also, I’ve done a clean install with the latest 2.0.7 distribution (I had 2.0.6 installed earlier today when I first encountered this problem), and the problem persists–I can’t for the life of me figure out what’s happening. If it helps, I saved a screenshot of the admin screen that I’m getting here

    try going to your users panel and then “your profile” and check the button that “Use the visual editor when writing” Without his checked only the code buttons will show when writing

    I upgraded to WP 2.1 and had similar RTE problems – these have now been fixed (for me at least) on a separate thread. Same things might work for you:

    Is the problem the same in IE and Firefox? I only had a problem with Firefox, and clearing out the cache worked a treat.

    I have a problem with RTE also. If I try to edit a draft, it will load up the text at first but then everything disappears when the icons load along the top of the RTE. If I turn off the RTE in my Profile, the write and manage posts seems to work ok but I find it much more difficult to operate without the RTE so would really like to get it working if possible.

    I cleared the cache but no difference. It is showing the yellow error triangle at left in the status bar along the bottom. Dont know what to do or check.

    Suggestions please.

    Leah
    https://www.aussiesapphire.com.au/blog

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