TinyMCE not loading in WP 3.9.1 – baseURL empty

  • Resolved Jakob Smith

    (@diakrisis)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    I have a site running WP 3.9.1 and I’ve just discovered that TinyMCE is not running anywhere – editing posts, pages, products (woocommerce) or widgets (blackstudio widget).

    I’ve narrowed the problem down to baseURL in tinyMCEPreInit being empty.

    Does anyone know what would the cause of that?

    Having searched for solutions I see that there has been problems generally with the Visual Editor/TinyMCE. I’ve tried the suggested procedure with disabling all plugins, enabling 2014 theme and emptying the browser cache, but that hasn’t helped.

    Any suggestions?

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  • Have you tried:

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    – re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder and wp-config.php & root .htaccess files – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

    Thread Starter Jakob Smith

    (@diakrisis)

    I tried resetting the plugins folder, both by FTP and PhpMyAdmin, neither helped.

    I also tried re-uploading all files and folders from a fresh download, except wp-content, wp-config.php and .htaccess – that didn’t help either.

    Of course at the beginning of this problem, before all the above, I went to my user profile to see if for some reason the Visual Editor was disabled, but it wasn’t.

    Now the solution was simple: Go to the user profile and tick the “Disable the visual editor when you are writing” and update profile. Untick it and update the profile again. After that, the Visual Editor was back ??

    I wonder why this particular site needed that done, when I haven’t had the problem on other sites updated to 3.9.1.

    The visual editor should work out of the box on a vanilla install. Try adding define('SCRIPT_DEBUG', true);to the bottom of your wp-config.php file (just before the require_once line). This should sidestep any issues with the server struggling to deal with concatenated .js files.

    Thread Starter Jakob Smith

    (@diakrisis)

    Earlier in the process, before the solution, I did add define('SCRIPT_DEBUG', true); to wp-config.php, without it making any difference.

    Thread Starter Jakob Smith

    (@diakrisis)

    Marking this as resolved, because my problem was fixed by the ticking and unticking in the user profile.

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