Visual Editor missing/not working

Fixed it

What was the fix? I’m seeing this behavior as well…

@b2tech

try this fix:

Open your wp.config.php (root of your site)

add the following line
define('CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false );

Just before the line

require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

Hope it helps you.

Hey SxPxK,

Thanks for the suggestion – I’ve tried adding:

define('CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false); to wp-config.php but it makes no difference. There are still no “Visual” / “Text” tabs…

Hey b2tech,

sorry to hear it didn’t work for you.
I had this issue with tinymce visual editor quite a few times, never had to use the same trick to fix it.
Kinda dreading everytime I update wp on different sites.

One time I had to change the security on wp-include folder, somehow it fixed the problem, but wasn’t too comfy about it.
I did the security change directly on the admin side of the server, so I can’t really tell you how you should proceed with the changes to your .htaccess file. Lucky me the server that host that particular website had the option to do so. And as soon as tinymce was working I switched back the security measure on that folder and it sword afterward.
Never really sure why and why not.

while searching for my last tinymce failure I found that site from Joe Casabona with a tip that might work for you. Doesn’t require much tinkering and could be a solution, a kind of preference system reset straight from your user pref panel
Quoting directly from his website

Go to Users -> my User Profile
Check “Disable Visual Editor…”
Save Profile
Uncheck “Disable Visual Editor…”
Save Profile

Hope this works!

Hey SxPxK,

Thanks for for the follow up and suggestions. After setting all the permissions, and checking / saving / unchecking the profile setting for “Disable Visual Editor” it is now working!

So I’m not sure what specifically was the “fix” but it is now working.

So steps that were taken:

• Disabled all plugins
• Switched to core default theme
• Deleted and manually replaced all core WordPress files with a fresh download
• Set permissions to 777 for wp-includes/ and wp-admin/ (which I’ll be attempting to make more secure now.)
• Checking / saving / unchecking / saving the “Disable Visual Editor” option on profile settings.

Nothing appeared to change until the permissions were adjusted. Disabling plugins and switching to a default theme made no difference.

Hey b2tech

Great, but what a hassle fixing that tinymce ??
It always seems to be linked to either wp-include folder permission setting or that wp-config.php file

Take care.