WP Fix: what to do when visual text editor jams

In order to get the code in the previous post I installed WP-Syntax and learned pretty quickly that the plugin ruins the visual text editor functionality… arrggg!

Simply uninstalling the plugin wasn’t good enough so after some research on the WordPress Support Forum I came across the following procedure to fix the issue:

1. Disable (and if needed remove) the plugin which causes the visual text editor of functioning normally.
2. Clear the browsers cache (in Firefox, use the Clear Private Data menu) and restart the browser.
3. Go to /wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php and find the following line:

   'compress' => true,

   and change the true value into false.

4. Log on to your WordPress admin area and now the visual text editor should be functional again.
5. If everything is working you can now undo the code change of step 3.

As you can see, the WP-Syntax plugin is still running and I can still use the visual text editor but that will take some modifications of the WP-Syntax code. I will post those changes later this week.