I have upgraded my Wordpress blog from Wordpress 2.7 to 2.8 and I lost my WYSIWYG TinyMCE editor. I have verified this now that this has happened just because I have chose the auto-upgrade option. I have gone through some google search and after that tried installing WP 2.8 on my local machine as fresh copy and it just worked well without any problem as I was able to find WYSIWYG editor working just well as before.
I tried to drill-down problem into little more and I found that following URL does not seems to be returning anything:
http://blogs.digitss.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/wp-tinymce.php?c=1&ver=3241-1141 which has caused the real trouble. The reason behind it was that wp-tinymce.js.gz file was missing under wp-includes\js\tinymce directory.
Placing wp-tinymce.js.gz from my local directory to live has immediate impact and Wordpress WYSIWYG TinyMCE started working well.
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#1 by Angelo Mandato / Plugins Podcast on June 29, 2009 - 6:17 pm
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I was stumped on this as well. I discovered the problem was with Google Gears caching a broken version of the Javascript in http://blogs.digitss.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/wp-tinymce.php?c=1&ver=3241-1141. I didn’t even have to reboot, just went into Google Gears and removed my site from the list of sites that Gears is enabled.
#2 by Umar on June 30, 2009 - 4:32 pm
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Thank you for the solution it worked for me!
#3 by Alireza on July 1, 2009 - 10:19 am
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thanks
it`s solved by wordpress
#4 by Naya on July 5, 2009 - 4:34 am
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Thanks for the suggested solution. What I did was to delete and reinstall the tinymce plugin and then wait for about 3 hours. I read in another site that sometimes we have to wait for a few hours. Your technique was definitely much easier. But before I decided to wait, I tried everything suggested online and failed to get tinymce to immediately work.
#5 by Dharmavirsinh Jhala on July 5, 2009 - 11:11 am
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Basically if in case it is required we may just need to press CTL+F5 on our browser to get the javascript reloaded.
#6 by Kalin on July 23, 2009 - 8:21 pm
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Excellent!!!
#7 by namoro encontros on August 15, 2009 - 11:04 pm
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I don’t have gears installed, any chance to solve this problem?
I’m getting error 500 on wp-tinymce.php
#8 by Dharmavirsinh Jhala on August 16, 2009 - 3:42 pm
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Hi, This problem is not specific to those who have installed Google Gears.. I haven’t installed Google Gears..
This was something wrong with the Wordpress auto-updater which was causing this problem by not copying JS file while upgrading from older version.
#9 by Michelle | Bleeding Espresso on December 10, 2009 - 11:30 pm
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This randomly happened to me way after I had upgraded, so I’m not sure what that’s about, but I did F5 on my MacBook, and that fixed it.
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