You may not notice anything, but I just updated WordPress to the current version.
Unfortunately (and this is kind of a disaster), I can’t see to type new posts. The text in the text box is white on white. Anyone know what the problem might be?
[Mid-afternoon update]
OK, per a comment, I fixed the stylesheet for the administrator, and I can now see these words as I type. That’s a dumb bug. You’d think they’d have fixed it by now.
Tangent, but also temporary solution! I post to some of my blogs using Live Writer:
http://download.live.com/writer
No good for Mac/Linux folks, but might be a stopgap. AS for WordPress, can you tell us browser and version? Might be a bug.
Well, I’m a Linux folk. Latest version (2.9.2) on Firefox/Linux.
Test on another computer to see if it is doing the same thing. This will help narrow down if its a site specific problem or a browser configuration issue.
Same problem, in both Firefox and IE, on a Windows 7 machine.
From this site:
Try these things to resolve problems with Visual Editor and editor tool bar
1. Delete or refresh the browser cache
2. If using Gears, disable it and re-enable it again
3. Delete wp-admin and wp-includes directories and upload fresh copies from a new(important) install package or reinstall automatically
4. Visit http://yoursite.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/wp-tinymce.php and look for any PHP errors or warnings at the top. If there are any try contacting your hosting provider to resolve them or try the next step. Of course replace yoursite.com with your domain
5. A number of plugins have been reported to present problems so deactivate all plugins and reactivate one-by-one to find culprit. Any plugin that uses its own javascripts might be a possible candidate.
6. Add define( ‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false ); near the top of wp-config.php. That would make WordPress admin run slower, so can try removing it in a few days and testing again (this would eliminate any stale network cache)
7. Some people also reported success redoing the upgrade via Tools->Upgrade->Re-install automatically, then clearing the browser cache.
8. Try another browser
9. Confirm that Your Profile, “Disable the visual editor when writing”, is NOT checked.
Also this site looks like it has a promising fix.
The color should be 000000 not FFFFFF
The color should be 000000 not FFFFFF
That did it. Except the color was “white.” I changed it to “black.”
That did it.
Yay!
It’s a bug alright but of what species I am not sure. I run 2.9.2 as well and I took a look at the css file. My css file has only one very long line, embedded withing I found this – “js ,theEditor{color:white;}” – and my editor has been working fine ever since the last upgrade which if memory serves was four of five months ago.
Good you got yours working and I am not about to change anything.
WP version 3 is going to be ready really soon now. Some of the new features are tried out on the WordPress com hosted sites before they make it to the .org community. Wikipedia just made a change on their quick search page and moved the search window from the side to the top. I was happy enough with the old style.
In response to you spam post where I mentioned using the Bad Behavior plugin for spam control I will note that the sites where I have it installed are all .org sites running WP 2.9.2.
Huh. I upgraded to the latest version a while ago and didn’t have that problem. I use a desktop that runs Windows XP and a laptop that runs Ubuntu Linux.
Oh yeah — and Firefox is the browser I currently use, on both machines.