Heh. I just got done posting a quick shout to Jean-Baptiste for his excellent Sliding Doors + Wordpress technique when I realized it had happened again: The Visual and HTML tabs on the Wordpress text editor were broken again. I don’t know of any permanent fixes, but if this happens to you here’s how you can fix the issue temporarily:
- Log into your Wordpress admin
- Go to Design > Themes
- Switch / activate any other theme than your current one (I just use the Default)
- Go to Write > Post (as if you are about to write a new post)
- You should see the GUI for the editor restored and be able to switch between Visual and HTML modes once more
- Go back to Design > Themes and reactivate your desired theme
If that doesn’t work … I have NFI.
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November 14th, 2008
I have had this same glitch happen with Wordpress 2.6.3. The fix you've described here has not worked for me. Switching to the default theme made the problem go away but… Once I went back to the first theme, the promlem returned.
November 14th, 2008
Make sure your theme's functions.php file is well formed. I was able to correct this issue by editing my theme's functions.php file. Removing blank lines helped.
March 10th, 2009
I have also had the same problem, you can read the solution I found here:
http://www.csnotes.net/?p=31
it worked in my case :)
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November 29th, 2009
I have the same problem in my web hosting blog (Wordpress 2.8.5). I can switch but both visual and html show the same.
December 24th, 2009
Thanks for the help, it worked for me!
Trevor
February 20th, 2010
Hi thank you very much iy worked for me too … i spent a month trying to fix it
in the last step when you click visual just wait some seconds
May 10th, 2010
I had recently put an .htaccess file in my wp-includes to allow more memory for the php functions, because I was getting errors with so many plugins.
IThought…what the heck, so I went in and renamed that .htacess to something benign and now my WYSIWYG editor is back!
Worked on both of my blogs (which I had patched for the same reason….
May 10th, 2010
i have the same issue however the problem only occurs within my homepage/mainpage. In all other pages/posts, i can switch between visual and html.
any ideas why the bug only applies to my homepage?
June 4th, 2010
¡No funciona!
June 17th, 2010
Doesn't work :(
June 21st, 2010
I had this problem tonight, and it turned out to be one of my plug-ins! Check those first! Try maybe disable one at a time to see if you can get a fix!
June 26th, 2010
I have faced same,Please help me
July 21st, 2010
Yeah, i had it on a nearly finished website! Turned out to be my latest installed plug-in wp-database backup. Deactivated the plugin and everyting is fine again.