matthaios

You could try clearing the browser cache in Firefox (Options/Privacy, last tab) and then ctrl-F5 to refresh the page. It might help.

OK, finally (fingers crossed!) solved, I had the wrong plugin as culprit, after some more playing with plugin combinations I think that on my blog it is the Link Footnotes. Shame, I liked that one.

Well mine has failed again too. Dammit. Totally stumped now. It seems to have dissappeared after I made a post using the visual text editor.

Solved: It appears that it was the combination of the following two plugins:
Photopress 0.9.2
Link Footnotes 1.1
If both are installed the visual editor is there generally but once it vanishes it doesn’t come back unless I deactivate both plugins and then reapply them. Either plugin on it’s one doesnt seem to affect the editor as far as I can tell.

Thank you to everyone who helped ??

OK I have tried that. Added all the plugins I have on my original blog to a fresh one and that broke it. I will now try and work out which one!

No, but I am having some theme problems with the original so I have uninstalled the second one for the time being to sort that out. Once I do that I will do what you are suggesting ??

I checked that just now, thank you for the suggestion, I have made sure my firewall and my virus killer are not blocking scripts from my blog. Also see my edit above. I will also try editing from another IP address tomorrow to see if that has an effect.

Ok, upgraded to WP 2.01 and that has not made any difference. I am going to contact my webhost and ask if they have changed the hosting environment at all.

[edit]installed a second WP blog to see how it was. Visual editor is present and working which suggests it is something I have done or that is “broken” in my original blog.

thats my thought, or possibly maintaince of some sort, although the gallery is back now…visual editor isn’t. Think I’ll leave it for now and see what it is doing tomorrow. If it gets resolved I’ll post. Thanks for your suggestions!

update, just checked other parts of my site and my gallery2 has failed. Might be related.

I have tried using IE, no effect. As far as I am aware I am using 2.0 so I may try the upgrade tomorrow.
Been thinking hard, the only admin actions I remember carrying out since I last saw it was a database backup and as I said, modifying the css, adding format for blockquote oh and also added to the header.php to have a favicon. I tried undoing all of these changes and that had no effect. I removed all but the plugins my default insatllation gave me and that had no effect. I am wondering if it is a mysql error but I don’t know enough about it to say…grasping at straws really on that one.

I am having exactly the same problem, I also started my WP blog about two weeks ago, used the visual rich editor editor with no problmes then a couple of hours ago it just stopped being available. I have it checked as the default for all users in Options/Write and in my User profile. I haven’t added any plugins since I last used it and the only thing I have changed was a blockquote format in the style sheet (taking that out does not make the text editor return to visual rich editor).
I am using Firefox to view my admin panel but I have changed nothing in that setup for weeks. Totally baffled and would rather like to get the thing back as I am much more comfortable using that. Hope someone can help me and kouya!