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.

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 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.

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).