"visual" editor mode not working after WordPress 4.3 update

  • Resolved pmorettini

    (@pmorettini)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    WordPress recently tried to auto-update to 4.3 and failed. I got the following error message:

    The auto upgradation of your WordPress installation has failed.
    The details are as follows :
    Installation URL : https://phil.pjmconsult.com
    Current Version : 4.2.4
    Latest Version : 4.3
    Error : Could not make the query numbered : 0
    MySQL Error No : 1146
    MySQL Error : Table ‘philfour_wp94.options’ doesn’t exist
    Could not make the query numbered : 0
    MySQL Error No : 1146
    MySQL Error : Table ‘philfour_wp94.options’ doesn’t exist

    I got help from my webhost admin, who repaired my database. After the repair, i was able to successfully install WordPress 4.3.

    I haven’t done anything at all to my website/Blog since the database repair and subsequent successful wordpress 4.3 update. I just went to modify an old post and am having a weird problem. All of my posts and pages currently appear fine. But when I try to edit an old post or page (or create a new one) I am unable to use the “visual” mode in the “edit post” or “edit page” editor. If I switch to “text” mode in the editor, I can see all of the content and modify it. But in “visual” mode the content doesn’t appear, and I can’t even put the cursor in the Editor box in visual mode. Unfortunately, I do all of my writing in “visual” mode, so I’m kind of stuck ??

    I have again tried reinstalling wordpress 4.3 again but it didn’t help.

    Since the only things that have happened since the last time I was able to successfully edit posts were the database error/repair and the update to WordPress 4.3, I believe it has to have been one of these that caused the issue. Can anyone help me troubleshoot/fix this? My website is https://www.pjmconsult.com

    Thanks,

    Phil

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  • pmorettini, mine went away after pausing Cloudflare but only after I clicked +New and Post. It let me type in the Visual editor. I closed out and checked my previous post and I can access the visual editor. When I resume Cloudflare, Visual editor works fine in Chrome but not Firefox.

    Thread Starter pmorettini

    (@pmorettini)

    If you wait long enough, it probably won’t work in either. I’ve gone through the cycle 3 or 4 times now; I have to both pause Cloudflare AND deactivate WP Total Cache to get it to work again. The first time, just pausing Cloudflare fixed it but not after that.

    There is sometimes a delay in one or more browsers in the visual editor failing to work or starting to work again after deactivating/pausing or reactivating/Resuming–probably because of some kind of caching. But I’ve now found it to be repeatable and believe the real issue is likely an incompatibility with WordPress 4.3 and WP Total Cache, although it may be a combination of WP 4.3 and Cloudflare/WP Total Cache.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    If you’re using CloudFlare caching, then check which “caching level” you have it set to.

    https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168256-What-are-CloudFlare-s-caching-levels-

    The “No Query String / Basic” or “Standard / Aggressive” will work fine. However, if you have it set to “Ignore Query String / Simple”, then this will cause you problems with the WordPress javascript code on every upgrade. This is because WordPress uses query strings as cache-buster parameters.

    In short, the “Ignore Query String / Simple” mode will not work properly with WordPress. Pick one of the other two methods.

    Thread Starter pmorettini

    (@pmorettini)

    I am using standard/aggressive. This is something new; everything was working fine prior to the wordpress 4.3 update.

    I was having an issue with Chrome and Firefox and the visual editor not working as well.

    The problems were:
    A) Chrome showed the Visual Editor tab – but if you clicked on it nothing happened.

    B) Firefox didn’t show the Visual Editor tab at all.

    Clearing the W3 Total Cache a few times didn’t fix it..

    Solution:
    It turned out to be two different things

    1) I have a Firefox add-on called “User Agent Switcher”, and previously had set the user agent to GoogleBot2.1 for testing, which was preventing the Visual Editor tab from displaying at all for some reason. I changed the Firefox UserAgent back to normal and the Visual tab re-appeared.

    2) The second issue was clicking on the Visual tab did nothing. It turned out in my case a WordPress plugin called “PS Disable Auto Formatting” was the culprit. It was working fine in WP 4.2.x but is not currently compatible with WP 4.3. After I disabled that WP plugin then the visual editor worked correctly again.

    If you don’t have that particular plugin in 2) above, try disabling all your plugins one by one until it works again to find out which one is not working correctly. (and clear any caches after disabling each plugin).

    Hope that helps!

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