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Thanks for the reminder zoonini I almost forgot.

Thanks zoonini and esmi!

zoonini, oh do I feel silly. The Screen Options tab at the top of the Posts and Pages is sort of a new feature (or at least I think it is). I never examined what was in there before. So relieved to know that nothing was actually wrong! I just needed to know I can turn them on. I thought my installation was broken.

esmi, your steps are wise advise any time there is a WordPress glitch. Thanks again to you both!

For the sake of my forgetfulness, for posterity or for anyone else who finds these unattended cries for help I will post what I found fixes the problem. This has happened to me more than once and with more than one site.

First I will restate my situation:

Using MAMP Pro (using a Macintosh) on my localhost (but it can happen on your remote server too)

Currently using WP 3.0.5

Reinstalled tinymce (located in the includes/js directory. (Didn’t help but it has in the past so you may want to try this first)

9 plugins installed and turning them all OFF did nothing to help.

4 of my plugins needed updates. Oh only I wish I had updated them one at a time.

• Akismet 2.5.3
• Contact 7 2.4.3
• Reveal IDs for WordPress Admin 1.2.1

Not sure which one was the culprit but I can at least report that after updating these plugins (even though turned OFF0 the Kitchen Sink is now visible. I also turned them on and the KS is still working fine.

Other helpful posts are found here but they address previous versions of WordPress:

Visual Editor appears as HTML in 2.9 Mentions an interesting “delete revision” plugin

2.8 Problems and Solutions Documents various possible issues with tinymce.

Good luck you all!

I’m still having this problem. My kitchen sink isn’t working. The text in the editor has become white so it looks like there is nothing there but there is. If you switch to the HTML view and back you will see HTML even on the Visual view.

I’ve searched this forum and followed the instructions posted by Theme Diva which said to deactivate all plugins, switch themes, and lastly reset the plugins folder. I have even removed all plugins. Done all that and it still is a problem both in MAMP and on the remote server.

I work with a lot of sites and not sure which one this referred to at the time of post but I have this issue for one of my MAMP projects and it seems to keep coming back.

I am going to reinstall everything starting with WordPress 3.0.4 and bring my data back manually and see if there is something in the database that is causing the problem but I sure hate doing it that way. Hoping for a better solution.

Version 1.4.1 works great on my WP v3.0.4. Thanks for this great plugin and for being so attentive to its maintenance!

I’ve been having some on again and off again with load times. Thinking that WordPress is corrupt but it could certainly be the hosting. I’ve had many in my WordPress usergroup say not to use GoDaddy. I’ve always liked my ability to pick up a phone and call with all my questions and get through in minutes. Decisions, decisions.

If I had the ability to remove my original post I would. Nothing wrong with WP 3.0.3. Its just me with too many servers and too many databases and mixing up who gets what data and trying to move things too fast.

My apologies to this forum.

Just to be clear. When I read in this forum that files need to be 644 and folders 755 I assume that all the nested files and folders need these settings too. I want to be able to reach all these files and folders to set their permissions without drilling down to each level to establish permissions.

I also hope to discover why my remote site isn’t updating in case it isn’t a permission thing. Sorry to be so long but if I don’t offer all the information I seldom get my question answered. Thanks.

Just for the record, I reinstalled WordPress 3.0.2 in my MAMP localhost and the problem seems to have gone away.

>>RE: Kitchen sink not accessible

I too have a similar problem except all I have it the HTML editor. I downloaded my site from the remote server, installed it on my localhost/MAMP server and imported the database via phpMyAdmin in MAMP. I haven’t done any editing or anything but on inspection the kitchen sink and the GUI editing capabilites for posts and pages isn’t there.

The text in the Visual window sometimes is white so it doesn’t look like its there. Sometimes its black but ALWAYS the information in that window is HTML not the Visual preview.

Did you find a solution?

Thanks esmi,

OMG! I’ve used that Codex document before but not for this and didn’t realize there was more uses for it.

For those who come along after me, the section titled, “Moving WordPress to a New Server” and sub titled, “If You Want Your Old Blog To Still Work” the part that applies to those of us who are using MAMP. Its a bit confusing at first but don’t see how you can do it any other way. I tried to take a shortcut and glad I wasn’t enjoying an adult beverage or I might not have gotten my localhost copy restored.

Thanks again esmi!

Thanks for hanging in there with me ClaytonJames!

I couldn’t just navigate to my localhost with my FTP client it doesn’t work that way. However, the fog has lifted here. For the sake of others coming along after this information I will finish the story.

I couldn’t accept that changing permissions would be so difficult that I would have to open this app and that app to do little bitty aspects of this task and getting nowhere real fast. After all I’m on a MAC for heaven’s sake and why would anyone ever bother with MAMP if it wasn’t making life simpler?

My FTP client is an old one but tried and true: Fetch. But I couldn’t get it to see the localhost until I visited the Fetch message board. Couple of things to note:

In OSX you need to turn on the “Sharing” system prefs to “File Sharing”>then click Options> enable checkboxes for “Share files and folders for both using “AFP” and the one for “FTP”

Then in my FTP client the shortcut setup is

Hostname: localhost
Username: your OSX user account ID
Password: your OSX user account password
Path: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/sitefoldername

This works if you installed MAMP without getting tricky. Actually I’m using MAMP Pro hence the “sitefoldername”.

Don’t bother with the port number. Now you should be able to quickly access your localhost. The only reason one would need to access it is to change permissions easily with a UNIX equivalent numbers being visible. No chmod in Terminal required.

Now I have a new set of problems with permalinks but I will save that for a new thread if I don’t find a good solution on my own or in this forum. Thanks again!

I do understand that it is a file extension. I’ve edited a few .htaccess files in the past (scary). And yes, I can see them and edit the permissions with my ftp client. Because my files are in MAMP, I don’t know what the hostname should be to access my localhost site. And have no idea about what username and password to use unless its the ones for WordPress. I’ve been trying to figure that one out since last night.

I can edit the permissions on all the other files in BatChmod. But cannot find a way to view .htaccess files with it. I can edit .htaccess files in Text Wrangler but cannot change permissions. I can see .htaccess files on a remote server with my FTP client but cannot figure out how to access files on a localhost. Yes, I tried declaring the hostname as localhost among other things. Didn’t work.

I have approached this with every tool I can think of but have no tool that will do what I need with the knowledge I possess. Suggestions, thanks?

Thanks so much! I hope that others will benefit from this thread because it’s rich information. I’m just about to upload my first time to the server once this next bit is solved.

I just now encountered the .htaccess issue you mentioned as I tried to edit the permalinks when your email came through. I got this message:

“If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file.”

Just below that the page offers me some code to add to the aforementioned .htaccess file but I cannot find a .htaccess file on my local installation (I should be able to see and edit it using Text Wrangler). Wondering if maybe I need to create one? If I need to edit one, where might it be located? If I need to create one to which directory should I save it? Thanks!

Thank you again ClaytonJames,

I sort of understand this but probably mostly don’t. I looked over the link you included and will no doubt read it a dozen times again. Since I’m a slow learner—I hope you will guide me a little bit more. Please let me know what you think of my speculations, below. I’m just trying to figure out how to proceed without screwing up too much.

The first thing I’m beginning to wonder is how many places will I discover that the permissions will need to be changed? Something tells me that it may not matter and that I might not need to worry about changing permissions until I am confronted with a WordPress notification to fix them. Is that the best way to handle things?

The second thing is when I do need to edit permissions, either put them back the way I found them once I no longer need to edit in that area or remember to restore them to their original state before uploading to the Web server.

Are these best practices? Perhaps I am over simplifying things. But I hope not. Thanks.