Visual Editor in WordPress is Missing or Broken
Visual Button Disappeared from the Word Press Blog Editor
I setup another blog for a friend this weekend. This installation went almost perfect except for one small nagging issue.
Problem Description
When we installed WordPress onto his host and logged in for the first time we noticed the “Visual” button was missing from the WordPress Editor. It only gave him the option to write his posts as HTML, and all the buttons that are associated with Visual Editor were missing as well.
Troubleshooting
We thought it might have been a problem with how the files had been uploaded to his host. His hosting service has a very poor FTP system which errored out three times while we were upgrading to the latest version of WordPress.
We uploaded the files again to make sure nothing was corrupt. Once we had done this we deactivated any plugins that were running to make sure they were not causing issues either.
After looking on the WordPress forums and realizing other people were running into this issue, we checked around for people’s recommendations.
A lot of the advice on the forums was that it was some sort of bug in WordPress, or that you needed to install TinyMCE or TinyMCE Advanced. Unfortunately none of these answers were the “True” answer.
It turns out the problem is much easier to fix than most people think.
Solution
This may vary depending on your situation but what we found was that this was actually an option that needed to be toggled within WordPress itself.
There is a setting in Word Press that allows users to disabled the Visual editor if they choose not to use it.
To turn the Visual editor back on and get your “Kitchen Sink” back you need to go into:
Users > “Your Username” > Visual Editor (At the top of the screen)
Because this was a new installation of WordPress this option had apparently never been enabled (although it is usually on by default). When I create user accounts, it is usually just to give someone access to an existing blog and this has never been an issue.
Near the Visual Editor Option make sure there is a check mark in the box next to “Use the visual editor when writing”.
Once this is done scroll to the buttom of the screen and click the “Update Profile” button. WordPress will now save your user settings and you should now have access to the Visual Editor once again.
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Another option that might help with the problems about WP editor is just using *another* editor. I liked it very much and I have posted on it to help the Russian blogging community. The direct link to the plugin is
http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin/%C2%A0
Having the same problem myself, but I do have ” Use the visual editor when writing” enabled and yet the problem persists. Have to search more on Google for the solution I guess.
Thanks for this! Such a simple answer.