Fixing the Wordpress Rich Text Editor Disappearing Problem
Recently I had the Rich Text Editor on Wordpress disappear on me. I’ve seen many solutions, from editing files within WordPress to various editor plugins to editing offline to simply checking to see if I had magically unchecked the ‘Use Rich Text Editor’ box in my user profile among other ideas. There was also a slew of people saying that the Rich Text Editor is useless anyway so it’s not a big loss. None of these solutions worked for me. So I got a bit adventurous and found something that worked by looking right at the database tables in phpMyAdmin. See how after the jump below.
After spending a few hours all together trying to get something to work I finally decided to have a look inside the database that WordPress houses itself in. Here’s how I fixed the problem.
- After getting into phpMyAdmin (your methods on how to get there will vary), I looked in the ‘usermeta’ table.
- After telling it that I wanted to browse, I saw that there were 2 tables with a meta key of ‘rich_editing.’
- I edited the tables directly so that they each held a value of ‘true’ and saved.
- I tested this by turning off rich editing inside my WordPress installation on my user profile page. It turned off just like it was supposed to. I then turned it back on inside that same page. Worked like a charm.
My only wish now is that I had thought of doing this sooner.
If you think this might help, there is a WordPress plugin that make the entire process a lot easier. I haven’t used it myself, but if it’s good enough for Lorelle then it’s good enough for me.
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wow - did you delete all the old stuff and start over?
love the new layout
Yeah, it got eaten. I figure it will work out this way.
thank U … fixed my editor issue
its the difference between blogging with 1 hand vs 2