I wrote this same blog post on my company site “lite-code” earlier today because I was having a issue with the Wordpress Visual Editor, it wasn’t working, at all. I couldn’t even use the HTML Tab to work that way just to make a correction to some page content I mistakenly uploaded. To get around this temporarily I went to “Users” and then the Admin of course. And once you are in there you will see a check box that says “Disable the visual editor when writing”, click that and save changes. Now you can at least view your post or page content and use raw HTML or plain text. Read below to solve the TinyMCE issue I was having. Hopefully this will help someone out there.

Source: The vanishing “Visual Editor”

I use Wordpress at least 20 times a day (if not more) for random tasks, posts or reading other blogs to troubleshoot or diagnose issues. The other day on a blog I have been working on for a client for almost a month now, the Visual Editor within Wordpress disappeared for no reason. I didn’t run any updates or install any new plug-ins.

So what I did was located the TinyMCE.php file through my FTP client (FileZilla), then attempted to run the PHP file through my Mozilla browser. I kept getting Server 500 errors everytime. I tried this with another blog, and voila the PHP script ran properly with no errors. So I then back tracked it to see if there was any difference in the files within the folders and noticed right away in the wp-includes folder there was a .htaccess file that none of my other blogs had. I simply deleted the file and what do you know….? The Visual Editor showed up once again and has worked flawlessly.

Now, I have no clue as to how the .htaccess file was created and put there, but for some strange reason it was. I had a hard time finding any answers to this question on the Wordpress Support Forums, but I did find one post that was regarding the issue, but no one there seemed to have a solid solution to resolve the issue. There was the typical “Restore a backup” (Which I did numerous time, with no avail), and of course “Run the 2.9.1 update” (Which also did nothing for me).

This is not guaranteed to fix your issue, but who knows, it might. I posted this to help anyone else who has this issue as it seems like lots of people do. Feel free to contact us if you can’t resolve the issue yourself.

I have been busy with a mix of laziness with this blog in the past year or so. But I just started a web design company here in Grand Rapids called lite-code. I am marketing it in the way of “Educational Web Design”, for clients who want a web site made but who also want someone to train them on how to use it. I am working on 2 big projects right now which are almost wrapped up and I have a few more on the back burner. The great thing is I haven’t even advertised once besides maybe handing out a few random business cards.

Things are going really well though. Nina and I moved to Grand Rapids in early November and we love it here. We recently bought a house in Easttown which is really exciting. The dogs love it here with all the snow and the great parks we have here in the city.

It has been a long time and I promise to keep up on this blog from now on since there is so much going on that I can share with everyone. In the meantime check out my awesome business card design.

I have been working on a new web site for myself the past couple months. It has been a slow process, but is finally coming together nicely. It is a flash based site that is powered by ImageVue, which is a very nice photo gallery software that can easily be manipulated into a full blown web site if you know your way around the code.

I am mainly creating the site to showcase my resume and prove my skills to future employers who might be interested in hiring me for my many services. Nina and I are still in Alaska and should be back in California on the 8th of August. She has been working a lot and is getting a little antsy to get down the road and see the rest of Alaska. We have been in Anchorage for over a month and are both a little anxious to finish our exploring. We plan on stopping in Banff National Forest since we have been told my more than a handful of people to GO.

I will be posting on this blog a lot more in the future. About everything really, photography, design stuff, electronics, software news and everything else that catches my eye. Stay tuned.

Wow it’s been about 3 months since I have posted anything on here. I have been busy with other random projects, mainly our Alaska trip blog. It is finally up and running smoothly and we are finally getting some decent traffic from our friends and other people who stumble upon it via google. The blog is dedicated to our trip from here in Florida to California which is where we are moving permanently, then from Grover Beach, CA we are heading North to Alaska for the entire summer. I should keep up on this site a little more and I probably will since I will have a lot more time when we are on the road, I am working on being connected to a data network while we are driving so I can keep up with comments and other activity.

Well there is plenty more to come, so in the mean time check out our progress on our trip blog
Coffee & Driving
Enjoy! 6 days left of Florida then it’s home to the motherland (California).

Yesterday gave us an amazing sunset down here in Clearwater. The kite surfers made the shots even better.

I have been at the beach a lot lately taking photos of random things, since my new job has me taking photos of people all day. I get paid to wander!

Had a great time!!!!

Worked an event for my sister a couple months ago, and Im just getting around to posting up some pictures from it. We are doing 2 more of these “high class” events this weekend, more pics to follow….

I spent a couple days in Florida with my two favorite people. I had an awesome time….