Seems like many users of WordPress received a nasty surprise when upgrading from an older version to 2.8. While looking for answers I found plenty of bad advice. Even more annoying are the WordPress mods rushing to close discussion on threads working to discover a solution. Luckily, I found a fix through trial and error. As for the cause, the only blog of mine with this error used an auto-update plugin instead of the new built in WordPress auto update function. It installed WordPress without installing all the required files.
You may experience the following symptoms:
- The buttons on the visual editor are missing.
- The font may be white on white.
- The image flash uploader button may not appear properly.
The solution:
1. wp-includes/js/tinymce/ should contain the following files:
2. I’ve zipped my entire tinymce directory for you. tinymce-zip Simply unzip to your wp-includes directory. Refresh the page by pressing the F5 key and try editing a post. You should now see all your buttons again.
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No nasty surprise for me fotunately, but I’m wondering why the mods are closing threads looking for a solution.
I imagine the mods were trying to cut down on the duplicate discussions. Several new forum threads were started to bring attention to it, but it’s much easier to troubleshoot an issue when everyone is having the same discussion.
While that may be true Dave, not once did they post “check this thread which has a solution to your answer”. I saw many threads on this issue, none having a proper solution. This was a huge unresolved problem that looked like it would require a WordPress update to fix. Something I’m sure they are loathe to do soon since it’s not a security issue. They often mark threads “resolved” even if the issue isn’t. Someone could delete WordPress and claim “problem solved” and it gets closed. Meanwhile there are 50 people in the thread with same issue still struggling. The following thread has another solution that I suspect will work. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/278484/page/2
http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/06/18/wordpress-2-8-1-coming-soon Contains the first decent explanation of the issue. Also says 2.8.1 will be released shortly for those who would rather wait.
The ‘bad’ upgrade thing was a bug, infact wordpress was removing some other files. I usually stick to Raw HTML and don’t use visual editor. Vim remains my preferred editor
I am using wordpress too, but no upgrading yet, hope more stable version.
yeah, i had problems too. i think they rushed it out. hopefully they’ve sorted the bugs by now.
There is also a huge issue with the new color coded file editor. If you don’t turn that feature off, you will be sorry.
That didn’t work. But I disabled all my plugins and enabled them one by one. FOund out that the offending plug in was WordPress Email Notification Plugin v2.3.1.
Will these files work with version 2.7.1? My icons are all missing and I looked at the directory,
wp-tinymce.php is not in the set of files I downloaded from wordpress.org.
I had installed version 2.8 and things really got messed up so I went back to 2.7.1. I thought I did a complete re-install, but there is another issue I find on my site that I don’t seem to have anywhere else. Apparently, version 2.8.2 now asks for your ftp information when upgrading plugins. I don’t have that issue on my other installs.
The point is, it seems I have some sort of strange mix of 2.7.1 and 2.8.2. Will your zip file give me the editor icons?
Wayne, I think it would, but better to try the 2.8.2 upgrade from the sidebar of your admin again. I think they fixed the icon editor issue by now. BTW, 2.8.2 created a new issue for me. Wordpress gives an “out of memory issue” that I was able to work around.
Upgraded to 2.8.5 but didn’t notice this bug with 2.8. Must be my lucky day.