I installed the Tiny MCE Editor Plugin and activated it. The Rich Text Editor appears but I can´t use it because if I click inside the editor the cursor doesn´t appear. Can´t type inside the editor. Another strange one is that even if I activate the Plain Text Editor in the Forums options the Rich Text Editor appears in the forum.
I haven´t has those issues with the former version 4.5.1. Everything was working fine…but now…
if you have more than one editor installed then which one is used will depend upon your forum profile options.
If the TM editor is not accepting the cursor then this usually points to a script conflict – the most common of which is jQuery or the jQuery UI being loaded from the google cdn or – sometimes – just being force loaded by another plugin or theme. Can you check the sources being used?
Yellow Swordfish said
Can you check the sources being used?
Can you tell me how to do it the best way?
Open the forum page. Go to the ‘View Source’ on whichever browser you are using and then search for ‘.js’ and look for the loading of jQuery and the jQuery.ui. When they are loaded from google or dorce loaded from a plugn or theme they are sometimes given a different name like jquery.min.js with a version number but you should be able to spot them. Look for double loading as well just in case.
Thanks. I can see several jQuery scripts beeing loaded and some in fact from Google. But that was also the case yesterday before I upgraded the forum and didn´t cause an issue.
Any idea how to fix this? I assume otherwise I will need to remove the forum enirely from my site which would be a big pain in the A. because I use the forum since a very long time and I need it for my theme support. 
I really do need to write this up in the codex! There are many reasons why loading jQuery and the jQuery.ui from google is a bad idea all of which are documented elsewhere on these forums and on other sites. Sadly this hasn’t got through to many theme and plugin authors who disregard and walk all over the WP API without thinking about their users and about other plugins they may wish to use.
personally, if it were me, I would be screaming at the author to change their code and to do it properly but experience suggest they rarely listen. Some DO – to be fair – offer an option to load the proper WP supplied libraries but this is rare.
It is usually pretty easy to fix to just change from loading from google to loading from your wp folders but you do need to make some edits. If we know where they are being loaded from then we can usually help out and advise. That call is, of course, entirely up to you.
Thanks. For now let me see if I can talk to the themes author. Have a good weekend.
I deactivated all Plugins and checked for issues. At the end I found out that Jigoshop appears to be the “bad guy”. Without it the editor works.
JigoShop does load from the google cdn (and I finally wrote this up: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/faq/troubleshooting/what-is-this-jquery-conflict/).
However, a couple of weeks back another SP user who also uses JigoShop talked about it to them and as far as I am aware they sent him a copy that removed the google call in favour of using the proper WP versions. if they did do this you might ask – I believe they responded quickly as well. But either way it is not usually that difficult to sort out.
yes and thought they had new version…