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@azaozz that was it for me, I was missing the file wp-tinymce.js.gz. I gzipped the js, reenabled compression on post.php and all seems good.

thanks!

Now, it seems related to compression. In file wp-admin/includes/post.php there’s a line like this:

$zip = $compress_scripts ? 1 : 0;

Don’t ask me why, but if you change that line to look like this (Wich is a dirty way to disable script compression):

$zip = $compress_scripts ? 0 : 1;

then the visual editor starts working again ??

But remember that:

• this will only fix the problem if you see in your firebug that the request to wp-tinymce.php has “c=1” in it
• this is a dirty piece of shit, it is not a definitive solution, just a temporary workaround

I got the same problem here, the visual editor just went away after upgrading from 2.7.1 to 2.8 (thankfully this is not a production or even public site).
I’ve done some reseach with firebug and the problem seems to be related with the version that is requested from wp-includes/js/tinymce/wp-tinymce.php , in my case, looking at the network traffic I see this request:

wp-includes/js/tinymce/wp-tinymce.php?c=1&ver=3241-1141

which is returning nothing, but if I change that to be

wp-includes/js/tinymce/wp-tinymce.php?c=2&ver=3241-1141

then it returns the needed javascript for tinymce.

I looked at the source for wp-admin/post-new.php and it’s using the wp_enqueue_script function to load the ‘editor’ scripts.

Digging a bit, that function is defined on wp-includes/functions.wp-scripts.php….

And there’s where I’m right now, I’ll let you know as soon as I know more.