WYSIWYG tab still missing after manual re-install of WP

Is the problem still there with the Twenty Twelve theme?

Yes the problem is still there in 2012… Funnily, the whole shabang works fine on my local installation with MAMP, but I have never had it working on my Host, not even before trying to install anything of my own (so with a fresh, ‘naked’ install… Where truth is stranger than fiction!

The website is https://www.classicbikenut.com, based on zDark and now running a zDark Child with a few very basic changes- text colour and size, date format in posts. I’ve tried out a few different themes, none of them give access the Visual tab. I have done two fresh installs, where everything except my immediate content was trashed first (including themes and widgets), of course the box is NOT clicked to disable the visual editor in the dashboard. I think that I shall slowly go and cry in a corner somewhere…:-) Peter

I have never had it working on my Host

That sounds like a server-related problem. Try adding define('SCRIPT_DEBUG', true);to the bottom of your wp-config.php file (just before the require_once line).

@peter – someone can help you, but it really works better to keep things in the existing thread you have – so please post here :).

Thanks, that would be great. However the problem is worse now, as I have just finished posting everything to the new server… and now it has ‘white-paged’ me again.

Having installed the new folders (JUST wp-admin and wp-includes, I have the white page. This has cost me a lot of downtime already and I need the site to run decently. I also need ‘instructions for dummies’. All I wanted was to be able to post new blogs, without first starting my localhost, posting to there, uploading the relevant pictures to the actual host, copying the text into a text-editor, changing all the links, re-coying into the actual server’s WP-Dashboard ‘add new post’ and then hoping that it works. EVERY time. Is that too much to ask?? It’s so frustrating. You can surely understand that? I just haven’t the time to waste with all this (again) Please help, even if only to restart the sytem as it was before… if that’s possible! Thanks, Peter

Yeah, I totally understand how frustrating it can be ?? – it’s okay. So can you go through where things are and what you’ve done – just so I’m sure we’re on the same page – did you get the site working on the server? And then this happened when you moved files or??

The content folder has not been compromised, all I need now (I hope) is to get WordPress up and running again – hopefully using all the already posted blogs and pages. I can live with the complicated posting-procedure if it works reliably (even if it is a pain), but it should actually work differently. My first priority is to get my stuff back. Or do I now have to re-install WP and re-post all 69 blogs and the pages I made from scratch?? (at least I still have all the photos in the content folder, AND, the ‘backup website on my localhost, of course!) ??

Peter

Everything was fabulous! THEN, i went this morning to see if someone had found a solution to the ‘problem’ and decided to give it a go… And now, after uploading the two folders via FETCH, the website is dead. When I enter “https://classicbikenut.com/httpdocs/wp-login.php”, for example, I get the 404, as if it weren’t there… nothing works, but all the 18 entries are there in phpMyAdmin… how do I restart it??

Your content is in the database so it’s quite unlikely you’ve “lost” it – and really, I agree there’s no reason WP should not be able to work. Where is your site hosted?

Did you try esmi’s suggestion above?

This ? https://classicbikenut.com/httpdocs/wp-login.php – that’s not a typical file path… but this isn’t working either:

https://www.classicbikenut.com/wp-login.php

https://www.classicbikenut.com

No I didn’t, the other postings all sucggested copying this bit of code and that bit of code into different areas of the config file. I tried all of those. Either nothing works or the instructions weren’t precise enough and I got it wrong. I have noticed that that when someone says ‘put just above xxx” in the code, ‘just above’ the expression could mean 5 lines above… My knowledge is so advanced, so I just left it so as not to tamper more than I have already!

NOT so advanced…

That is the hierarchy on my host server. All the wp files and folders are in the httpdocs directory on the top level of the domain

I’ll try again…

Wait, that won’t likely fix the current issue – I was just wondering if you did try that re: the visual editor earlier.