Error: Text Editor is not loading or showing up in WordPress – (Fixed)

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I had a terrible issue with my wordpress website www.sherbaz.com. I was unable to submit any post for a long time because of this issue. Every time when I login to wordpress dashboard to post new tips, I see a blank text field as shown below which doesn’t even accept any input either.

Text Editor Error

How was it fixed?

This was seriously effecting my work and I couldn’t post or edit or update an already existing post either. Finally after few weeks of silence I decided to tweak this out. One fine weekend I started sorting out one by one.

  1. Cleared browser cache – No luck.
  2. Changed browsers and even tried on different systems and finally tried even on my Smartphone. – Same error was there everywhere.
  3. Then I checked the error that was displayed by internet explorer while loading the page. It says “tinyMCE is undefined”. This didn’t give any clue.
  4. Installed Web developer 1.1.9 add-on to my Mozilla firefox and then executed the new post page again. The web developer error console says “illegal character in wp-tinymce.php”. On clicking the error, the file popped up. I could find only some Unicode characters. So I felt like the files might have got corrupted. I tried replacing the file alone from a new downloaded wordpress-3.3.1 package. That didn’t fix it.
  5. I then took a backup of wp-admin and wp-includes folders, deleted those folders and then uploaded again from the freshly downloaded wordpress 3.3.1 zip file. Hurray! The issue got fixed. The text editor is now showing up and working fine.

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Technology enthusiast Sherbaz is a Microsoft certified SQL Server Subject Matter Expert. He had fun automating day to day task to achieve management goals. He has extensive hands-on experience in high availability deployments and support with several years of industry experience performing SQL Server installations, configuration, maintenance, backups, performance tuning, Transactional & P2P replication, migration, high availability solutions (Always on, Failover Clustering, Logshipping and Mirroring) and Disaster recovery. Sherbaz also has basic hands-on experience in other DBMSs like MongoDB, Oracle 9i, 10g, Sybase and MySQL. 1 year on Mongodb, Oracle 9i & 10g. Completed M102 & M202 courses in MongoDB. Sherbaz spends his spare time with automation in electronics, embedded system circuits and IOT in his private lab at home. Also, he supports his customers and users at www.SplitExpense.in for issues with app, website or telegram chat bot @SplitExpenseBot https://t.me/SplitExpenseBot. @TheSherBot https://t.me/TheSherBot is another telegram chat bot, partially artificial intelligent, programmed and maintained by him on python and backend Mongodb database. Sherbaz always showed interest learning new technologies and to think out of the box bringing innovation in work. Some of his work is documented @ www.sherbaz.com. He is now busy learning 3D modeling software on his roadmap towards building his next hobby build, A 3D PRINTER. Subscribe to his youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/SherbazMohamed/

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