{"id":49316,"date":"2015-06-15T07:59:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T11:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=49316"},"modified":"2016-04-13T09:46:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T13:46:55","slug":"wordpress-troubleshooter-missing-visual-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wordpress-troubleshooter-missing-visual-editor.html","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Troubleshooter. Missing visual editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<p>This tutorial is going to show how to deal with missing Visual editor issue in WordPress. It has been a common problem with the release of WordPress version 3.5.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hqJ4znCTiiE?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">WordPress Troubleshooter. Missing visual editor<\/a><\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Log onto your server and go to the root directory. Look for the <strong>wp-config.php<\/strong> file and open it up for editing:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Missing-visual-editor.1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Missing-visual-editor.1-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"Missing visual editor.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-49317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Missing-visual-editor.1-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Missing-visual-editor.1-150x80.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Missing-visual-editor.1-1024x546.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Missing-visual-editor.1.jpg 1083w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Before you make any changes, be sure to carefully copy the code and paste it into a Notepad file, as a backup copy in case you mess something up.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Write the line of code <strong>define(&#8216;CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS&#8217;, false);<\/strong> at the bottom of the file, just above where it indicates to &#8220;stop editing,&#8221; which you will probably see between a set of \/* &#8230;&#8230;.. *\/ marks, which are programming comments. Don&#8217;t forget to include the little semi-colon!<\/p>\r\n<pre class=\"brush:php\">\r\n\t\tdefine('CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false);\r\n\t<\/pre>\r\n<p>Here is how you should proceed:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Missing-visual-editor.2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Missing-visual-editor.2-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"Missing visual editor.2\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-49318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Missing-visual-editor.2-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Missing-visual-editor.2-150x70.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Missing-visual-editor.2-1024x480.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Missing-visual-editor.2.jpg 1405w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Save and close your file, then log back into your Dashboard to check if the visual editor shows up.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>If you can&#8217;t see the Visual Editor in specific browser or computer, the problem is related to your browser.<\/p>\r\n<p>This is most likely due to a browser cache. Refresh the page with the following hotkey combinations:<\/p>\r\n<ul class=\"list\">\r\n<li><strong>Windows:<\/strong> CTRL + F5<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Mac\/Apple:<\/strong> Apple+R or command + R<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Linux:<\/strong> F5<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Make sure to let the page load completely before starting editing.<\/p>\r\n<p>Please visit Browser Issues page for more troubleshooting hints.<\/p>\r\n<p>Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hqJ4znCTiiE?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">WordPress Troubleshooter. Missing visual editor<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial is going to show how to deal with missing Visual editor issue in Wordpress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":49320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[728],"tags":[664,777,1997,2405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}