Visual Editor not working

what have you tried so far that is not solving the problem?

I have disabled all plug ins. I have changed the theme. I have updated Java. I have tried IE, Firefox & Google Chrome. I have tried the CONCENTRIC false statement, etc.

The weird thing is I have 2 sites that are basically identical in content and one of the sites it works and the other it doesn’t. But most of my WP sites the Visual editor does NOT work so I can’t figure this out.

But most of my WP sites the Visual editor does NOT work so I can’t figure this out.

what specifically is NOT working for the visual editor?
have you checked on the visual editor setting for your user profile?

Yes I have checked that. If that was checked the Visual button would not even be visible. What is not working is this….

The visual button IS visible but it is blank. You cannot click inside the box to input anything. There IS code that is in the if using the TEXT buttown but most people would prefer to input WYSIWYG using the visual editor rather than having to know how to use HTML text editor. The visual box is empty although there is code in there.

I would allow you to view it yourself if you want.

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for your websites where the visual editor is NOT working, which hosting company is connected?

for your website where the visual editor is properly working, which hosting company is connected?

Same company for both.

It’s NOT the company, it’s NOT the plugins, it’s NOT java, it’s NOT the browser – it IS WordPress

I would suggest inspecting your wp-includes directory, specifically the .htaccess file.

I had a similar problem as well. Visual and Text buttons weren’t clickable and the text was showing up as white.

After looking into it, I realized the problem. Yesterday I used Sucuri’s hardening function to restrict direct access to php files in wp-includes. By doing this, it modified the .htaccess file inside wp-includes and added the following:

<FilesMatch “\.(?i:php)$”>
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
Require all denied
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
<Files wp-tinymce.php>
Allow from all
</Files>
<Files ms-files.php>
Allow from all
</Files>

After removing this code my text editor was working fine. Hope this helps.

Brandon: Can you explain specifically what you think I need to do. I don’t understand what Sucuri is or the rest of what you wrote. It would be greatly appreciated. Are you saying I need to change the permissions on certain files and if so, which ones and what permissions?

I would suggest inspecting your wp-includes directory, specifically the .htaccess file.

Maybe try looking for any code that restricts access to php files, such as the code I posted in my previous comment.

I am not sure how to inspect these files and what to do but I guess I will take a look. Thanks

I see some of those files like these:

<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</IfModule>

but what I see after are ip addresses to deny that were input from the security

Too many files – not sure what I am really looking for. Thanks for the suggestions but over my head. Hopefully WordPress will resolve these issues in next upgrade.