So I'm a developer trying to help out a non-profit that has a site in wordpress. The Wordpress version is a little out of date (they don't have 4.7.1).
I updated some css in one of the theme files (a small change, just wanted to see if I could make a change happen before I went in and did larger changes). I pressed update file and everything seemed to be ok.
I then checked the website, and the change had not propagated. I then went back to check the css if I'd made a mistake..but then I saw this-
There's no CSS!??
But when I go to the site, the css is still there and the theme is still applied.
What is going on?
EDIT
These are the other themes?
I have also pasted a backed up version of the CSS - got a message saying the file was updated...but nothing happened. Why?
Also why am I getting downvoted? I followed exactly what wordpress expects me to do and the behaviour is totally unexpected.
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I have a wordpress website, I created a customized php template to the homepage and loaded from the back-end in the template page settings.
During the last months everything was working perfectly when I change anything to the template code effects the homepage without any problems.
Suddenly, yesterday when I tried to upload a updated file, nothing changed on the homepage.
I remove the browser cache, and wordpress cache, used another device to check, without any luck.
The wordpress black admin tools bar appears on all sites pages so I can edit and control this page, but it's not appears on the homepage.
For sure I checked again the theme settings for the homepage and page template settings, and everything is correctly configured.
I tried to activate another theme, the surprise that I found the homepage still the same and all other pages changed to the new theme.
I am losing my mind due to this, and I don't understand what may happened.
Download your site on your computer and see whether it happens also on your own computer when simulating with XAMPP.
Are you sure that the new added files are really being uploaded to the server? did you check it up with downloading the files? Maybe the modified files could not been uploaded? Another thing would be that some new installed plugins are making those problems. Have you installed some new plugins like a plugin which are speeding up your wordpress site? There are some popular plugins which speed up your site with caching your whole site and working as a CDN.
Since i dont know which modification you do on your website it is difficult to find a solution. If those modifications are changes of articles then look into the database.
You could look into the SQL Database whether those new information are being saved. E.g. you try to post a new article. Is this article being saved in the SQL database? Do you see any errors on the page? Does this effect each page / section of your website or is it only for a specific module e.g. "image uploader"??
Did you try to replace a simple image on your site with another image ? Can you see the difference on the website? I would start with little steps to be sure whether this is a server issue, template issue or sth with unsufficient priviliges. There were also new wordpress updates, maybe they affected your template? Another thing would be to recover your complete site from a backup and see whether it works like before and be sure that your site has not been hacked.
I am working on a project for my client. I was editing the page with WordPress Gutenberg editor and when I clicked Edit in WordPress the website home page was broken and I could no longer fix it.
I tried these approaches:
Tried reinstalling the theme
Checked the code for error but could not find anything.
Looked into the browser console for errors and found these files are missing bootstrap.min.js.map popper.min.js.map style.css.map bootstrap.min.css.map
I checked other pages on the website but they are working fine even if some of these files are missing.
Installed this theme on my localhost and then tried to copy all the theme data into this one but it messed up the code even more.
Now I am not sure why do I have this issue suddenly on my website but I can't seem to find a solution for this.
Please check out the links below:
(the broken page) https://cmedia.host
(Page that is working just fine on the website) https://cmedia.host/nom-de-domaine/
Can you please check and help me fix the issue here?
What worked for me was to redo the same steps. It looks like Gutenberg was missing and when I tried editing the page using Gutenberg, it broke the code.
Then followed the same steps and tried to redo the steps using another editor and it was fixed in a second.
Editing wordpress page or posts with a different editor (i.e. using theme editor and then Gutenberg or vice-versa) is known to generate this type of issues. Try to edit it again with the original editor (Gutenberg) that should fix it.
I'm having a serious problem. I have wordpress 3.9 installed on my server. the problem is that my website front end loads good, but my back end just loads text :
I have updated/reinstalled wordpress but nothing has happend. What should I do?
Thanks for help.
I'm 100% sure that if you simply do the following, you'll figure out what's wrong and fix it.
Deactivate all plugins without use of your WP-Admin.
Activate them, 2 or 3 at a time, and determine which plugin is the culprit
If none of these plugins are the culprit, go to the WordPress site and download WordPress. With an FTP utility such as FileZilla or another client if you already have one, then upload the entire wp-admin folder to your server, overwriting older files.
Your WordPress admin will be fine after these steps. And of course, never alter any core WordPress files -- ever. The only files you should ever tinker with are files in your child theme, which is something you should be using.
Would be great to have a bit more information about this topic. First of all: Is this a new problem respectively did the admin run without errors before? (3.9 sounds like the page is not a new clean install).
Usually I would start debugging the page via e.g. firebug => Check the Stats of the CSS-Files.
If they load correctly (200) check if they are empty or incomplete (Incompleteness can be checked via diff against the original file ... most IDEs will handle that for you)! If they aren't you have probably just diabled CSS in your browser for the URL of the admin-panel.
If they don't load, try to check why! If the files exist its most probably an error in your .htaccess (wrong rewrite, blocked directory, etc.).
I updated my wordpress website version with 3.9.2. After updating when i try to add or update any page or post, visual editor tab shows blank. It does not display toolbar buttons or page or post content. Text tab works fine
I tried following solutions provided on different sites with no luck
1) clear browser cache
2) deactivating all plugins
3) change to default theme and again change to desired one
The people who had the same issue had cured the problem by doing one of these suggestions:
1) Install “Use Google Libraries” plugin
2) Add to your wp-config.php file:
define( ‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false );
3) Download a refresh version of WordPress from WordPress.org and via ftp replace /wp-includes/js/tinymce folder
4) Download a refresh version of WordPress from WordPress.org and via ftp replace /wp-includes folder
I tried all above solutions but no success :(
I also refer following links but could not find solution
Wordpress Visual Editor broken
Visual editor not working in wordpress 3.8.1?
I have attached screen-shoot for visual editor tab and text editor tab for one page
Please help
I had this issue on APlus.net Hosting and had one heck of a time fixing it. All the text in the Visual Editor was white, and I couldn't get to the HTML tab. The Visual Editor was missing all the formatting buttons -- it was just a white empty space.
After trying everything listed across the web without success, I was finally able to track down the culprit on APlus hosting. It turns out APlus hosting injects their own analytics tracking code into even the WordPress Admin pages. The code for their analytics wasn't written properly -- the code was missing a final ending apostrophe, which resulted in breaking all the code that came after it. In my scenario, the injected code broke the Page Editor TinyMCE JS code.
I checked the Google Chrome inspector to find the error in the code, and after talking with a Tech Support rep at APlus I was able to fix it by deleting the analytics file on the server via FTP:
/private/.wmcnum
I hope this helps. If anything check out the Google Chrome inspector and look for errors. If it's something you can't change, definitely get in touch with your hosting provider.
I've seen an issue like this before. For me, the site we were updating had many out of date plugins. The one that caused our issue was WP Polls. Something went wrong during the update process, and certain files were missing from the plugin directory. I kept a backup of all of the files from before the update, but even re-uploading them didn't fix it. We ended up removing the plugin that was causing the issues and re-installing it. If you can narrow down which plugin might have some discrepancies, then I'd recommend backing everything up (including your database), deleting the plugin, and re-installing it.
If it was simply a WordPress update, it may be that not all of the WordPress files copied over. If you can get a fresh install of WordPress 3.9.2, you can compare the differences between those files and the files on your site. If you're getting an error from somewhere in wp-admin, I'd start my check there.
This is the solution that worked for me:
“Use PHPMyAdmin (or another database editor) to search inside your WordPress database in your “wp_options” table for the record called “can_compress_scripts”. and if it has a value of “1” for the “option_value”, change this to “0” and save the change. You will find your editor working again! (Note: Sometimes this record won’t even exist, so in that case you need to add it. Look for a WordPress database that does have it in order to see what you need to add.)"
original answer by digbymaass:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-missing-buttons-not-working-white-text-help-1/
In my experience I've had some problems with the tinymce editor. Some of my clients reported they've 'lost' some of the buttons in the editor (or all of them).
I found that disabling emojis with the tiny_mce_plugins filter not also disables emojis but half the buttons in the editor.
Maybe you have somewhere in functions.php this line, just comment it and refresh cache. Let's see if that helps.
add_filter( 'tiny_mce_plugins', 'disable_emojicons_tinymce' );
I checked all over about this. I could not edit or see text in wordpress posts or pages. It seemed to narrow down to the tinymce plugin where I found errors through the Chrome console. I tried a number of things without luck. So I disabled tinymce and all is running smoothly. How simple for a problem with so many variables and options for a fix.
I'm trying to activate a Wordpress theme but all I got is a blank page, also the admin page goes blank.
Version of WP is 3.9.1, Mysql 5.1 compatible and PHP 5.2.4 compatible too with WP. The theme in question is MH Magazine and I have it in another server with the same configuration and is working ok.
Even I tried to do a backup of the working site and place it in the production server and still goes blank.
I tried uploading the max_memory_limit in php and no luck. Error log and show php errors doesnt show anything, when I check only says the site name HTTP 1.1 500 - If I set wp_debug to true says HTTP 1.1 200.
File permissions are ok too.
A SIMPLE FIX FOR NON TECHIES (Like me really)
Loads of forums recommend various code changes and things to try, non of which worked, so I logically worked through the process more simply and solved it myself (in my case). White screen for everything, including front end and Admin. I tried everything going!
Essentially I'd asked Wordpress to link to a theme, which it did, but now I can't change it back. As it wouldn't automatically switch back to default themes, as suggested by others as a result of simply deleting the theme folder via ftp, I would have to force that myself. Without access to the admin panel, how would I change the link (easily)?. Well I can't, so instead I need to force the change of what it links to instead!
In the end I basically logged in via FTP, went to the wp-content folder, then to themes, located my list of theme folders and changed the theme folder name of the one recently selected and causing the issue, by just adding an x at the end (random letter). Then I changed the theme folder 'default' to the name of the theme which was causing the issue, then refreshed my site in the other window, at which point it displayed again. So the hard coded link never changed, but the basic files it links to now have.
The site was now back up, thank god! I then logged into the Wordpress admin panel and updated my version of Wordpress, as to be honest it had been a while and it was a little out of date, so a likely culprit for the cause of the error. Once updated, I then went back into the FTP window, renamed the folder back to 'default', and then removed the 'x' character from the end of the actual theme folder that I wanted to use. And ta dah, it now works beautifully with the theme I wanted! Without any fancy code changes or messing around with reinstalling or removing etc. BOSH!!
Hope this helps a few people out. (obviously it's different strokes for different folks)
To get this out of comments --- this is a community wiki answer.
Are your two servers running on the same platform (Linux? Win?) or different ones?
Do you have the same collection of plugins on both platforms?
Here are some things to try.
do View Source on your white screen of death and see if there's anything in the source view that can help you diagnose your problem.
deactivate all your plugins, then try the theme.
if it doesn't work, then this theme is broken on this server setup.
reactivate the plugins one by one. One of them will probably give you the white screen of death. Then you know that plugin is incompatible with that theme.