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How to Fix WordPress Visual Editor Not Showing After WordPress Installation?

By on June 25, 2010

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I have recently upgrade my WordPress version to the latest release version of 3.0. The WordPress version upgrade installation went through well, just like the previous installation, and everything seem to be just fine.

Somehow just when I wanted to write a new post on my blog, I noticed that the WordPress visual editor didn’t want to show up at all even after I’ve tried to reload the page for several times. Still, the visual editor was too shy to show up.

So I went and searched for solution on Google and apparently, I was not the only person with the same issue. And I’ve learnt that this WordPress-visual-editor-not-showing problem only appeared on WordPress version 2.8 and above.

After applying the solution that I’ve learnt from a site, my visual editor is showing up again! :-)

So, if you are facing the visual editor issue too, you can follow this solution. Hopefully, this solution will solve your problem, just like it’s solved my problem.

The solution is simple but a little tedious. You will need to modify your wp-config.php file by adding a line of code.

  1. First, log into your server via FTP (or cPanel) and download the wp-config.php file to your computer.
  2. Open the file with Notepad or any text editor.
  3. Add this line of code, define( ‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false ); , at the bottom of the file just before the “require_once” line.
  4. Once done, you can upload the newly modified wp-config.php file to replace the old wp-config.php, on your server.

Now, try to load the “Add new post” page. The visual editor should show up by now. :-)

Steve Yu is a technology blogger with five years blogging experience (since 2007). He is the founder of MyTechQuest.com.

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  • http://www.softkid.net softkid

    hei, this was same of issue with my issue . And thanks …

  • manvi

    This fixed the visual editor issue but now the site wont load correctly on IE
    http://www.yalejournal.org
    Help!!

  • http://arafats.info Yasir Arafat Hasib

    Thanks, the visual editor show but when i try to add/publish/save new entry it goes to a page and says

    404: Page Not Found

    We are terribly sorry, but the URL you typed no longer exists. It might have been moved or deleted, or perhaps you mistyped it. We suggest searching the site:

  • http://translations.schiffman.biz Lev

    Tried this solution in 3.1 – did not work for me. Any other ideas worth trying out?

  • http://whoisdeannahibbs.com Deanna Hibbs

    Bummer , I tried it to and it didnt work either ,any other ideas ,its driving me nuts!

  • http://blogominded.com Ujjwal Kumar

    did’t work out for me…
    i am on WP 3.1.1
    Genesis 1.5

  • Peter Joles

    Thanks. I’ve been looking all over for a fix and this finally worked for me.

  • http://www.fluxfun.com Sam Galope

    Hi! I tried this but it doesn’t work. I’ve solved the problem though. Try to disable magic_quotes_runtime on your php.ini config. Details are in my blog at http://www.fluxfun.com/2011/09/07/wordpress-tinymce-visual-editor-fix/.