WordPress WYSIWYG Visual Editor Not Working or Not Appearing
With the release of WordPress 2.0, WordPress has integrated visual editor with WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface, which based on TinyMCE. It’s a nice feature, although some may still prefer the old interface which is HTML-based editor.
Luckily WordPress 2.0 allows WYSIWYG visual editor to be turned off or disabled. However, when wants to enable and use WYSIWYG visual editor again, the visual editor simply doesn’t appear nor show up. It’s as if visual editor has vanished into the thin air. The situation might happens even if you never disable the visual editor before.
The most likely cause of the problem is because in WordPress 2.0, there are 2 places or options that you can disable the visual editor. The first option is, of course, at Options -> Writing, under the Formatting title, users can select or unselect “Users should use the visual rich editor by default” to enable or disable visual editor.
However, there is another option at Users Personal Options, where users can select or unselect “Use the visual rich editor when writing” to enable or disable visual rich editor for each for each user individually. The setting here has higher priority that the setting at Options, which may simply set the default option when new user is created.
So when your visual rich editor is not working properly, check the Personal Options at Users to see if the “Use the visual rich editor when writing” is checked.
And it’s the same if you want to disable WYSIWYG visual rich editor. Just make sure the option at Users Personal Options is unchecked to get rid of it.
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July 18th, 2009 00:43
I had this issue with the Tiny MCE visual editor not appearing. The option was under the ‘Users’ > ‘Authors & Users’. The WYSIWYG editor was not appearing even though the box to ‘disable the visual editor’ was not checked.
TO CORRECT:
I checked the box and saved the profile. I thin unchecked the box and saved the profile. The tinyMCE editor now appears with an HTML or Visual view. Probably a small DB glitch with one of the Wordpress upgrades.
July 17th, 2009 04:34
thanx! did help me. Could figure out why I didn’t have visual editor enabled.
July 9th, 2009 08:16
Thank you! I was under my user settings… not under Writing
March 15th, 2009 07:09
Good stuff, wish I had read it before I tried to fix it myself by updating files and remove plugins etc.
March 14th, 2009 15:38
Thanks you so much. It was on some of my blogs but not others…and driving me slowly insane.
Cheers,
Daniel
February 5th, 2009 07:32
Thank you very much! I was struggling to get my WYSIWYG editor showing again.
January 22nd, 2009 01:22
Great article! I’m loving your website.
September 7th, 2008 04:51
BTW, I’m bookmarking your site and clicking on your adds. I have 20 Blogs and this has consumed so much of my time!
September 7th, 2008 04:49
Thank you SOOOOO much. I swear, I thought I was losing my freaking mind when it disappeared. I’ve spent hours on this and happened upon your Blog. THANK YOU!!!!
February 21st, 2008 20:47
i`m logged into Wordpress at my office right now, and the visual editor appears on my office computer, but it has not once appeared on my home computer.
November 30th, 2007 19:43
Thank you SO much! This has been driving me crazy. I’m a casual user of WordPress. I hadn’t used it in a couple of months and when I started blogging again, I kept thinking… “I thought I could just stretch those pictures before.” Drove me crazy.
Thanks!
November 25th, 2007 19:18
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