Switching between Wordpress Visual and HTML editor not working

By Danno

On October 15th, 2008
in Web Development, Wordpress.

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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Danno started remote freelancing in 1996 and worked as little as possible in order to snowboard as much as possible. He is the co-founder and (ex) President of Graphics.net, owner of FeedIcons.com, EliteFreelancing.com, FastCharacters.com and SteelAndSnow.com. His favorite shape is a circle.

Tags: hacks, howto, Wordpress

dylan_k:
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.

dylan_k:
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.

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