Wordpress Richtext editor problems
Every since installing WordPress I’ve been having problems with its rich text editor.
Basically it didn’t work.
After checking it on a friends machine and finding it not working, i thought somehow it must be something to do with the installation. After upgrading my version of WordPress it still happend so I began to doubt it was the installation.
I did a little research on the net to find out if anybody else was having the same problem. As it turns out it is quite a common problem, though from reading the mails it seems not that easy to tie down.
Doing a little testing, I tried the text editor in IE7 and found that it worked. Thus proving that it was something to do with Firefox.
So to start off cleanly, i started Firefox without any plugins. And voilà the problems was solved.
Thus proving it was one of my very many plugins.
Not wanting to enable a plugin then test for every plugin i had, and considering my friend had the same problem, i emailed all but the most common plugins. Everything worked fine.
To bring the story to a quick conclusion, it was the adblock plus plugin, it would seem that TinyMCE ( the text editor that WordPress uses ) require scripts be enable, and adblock plus, for my site at least stops scripts.
Simple adding my sight to the allowable sights solved the problem permanently.
So if you are having the same problem, consider any plugin you might have that blocks scripts.
I hope that this solves your problem.