How to Fix White Text and Missing Buttons in WordPress Visual Editor

Every day we receive countless issues which are quite common and easy to fix in WordPress, but this day was different, our user got a very peculiar error, while he was installing WordPress. He started to type his content, but was quite shocked to see nothing being written on the screen, it was then discovered that the post editors text was colored white, hence the blank page. The issue did not just end here; the option to switch from Visual to HTML was also non-functional. So if one of you is experiencing this annoying error, then keep on reading as we will show you how to fix the white text and missing buttons issue in WordPress visual editor.

Note for Beginners: If you are not encountering this issue, but having a problem in located the hidden button known as kitchen sink, which you may have seen on various websites. All you need to do is press the Kitchen sink button shown below, to avail the options offered like underline, color, erase etc.

How to Fix White Text and Missing Buttons in WordPress Visual Editor

If you have encountered a variety of other buttons, which don’t show up even after clicking the kitchen sink button then a TinyMCE Advanced plugin must’ve been installed by other websites.

For people who are encountering the real issue, try our simple error fixing methods below:

Clear your Browser Cache

After research, we discovered that clearing the web browser caches, solves the problem. So this method should be your top priority, you can do that or switch to a different browser. If this fix, doesn’t resolve the error then, the error might’ve occurred when you were installing WordPress.

Replace the TinyMCE Scripts

Do you recall that the issue popped up, after you updated WordPress, it could be a rare occurrence but it is likely, that the update process didn’t occur correctly? All you need to do is replace a new copy of /wp-includes/js/tinymce/folder with the old copy.

Fix with wp-config

If all of the above solutions failed for you, then follow these very simple steps:

  • Open wp-config.php file/
  • Paste this line below, at the very beginning after the opening tag of php
  • define('CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false);

    If nothing works, this is last method that works every time, if you have discovered some other way, then please don’t hesitate to share it with us. We hope that we have helped you in resolving the white text and missing buttons WordPress error.


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