Are you using any other wp plugins that might be trying to add something to the tinymce editor? since the wp folks have now encapsulated the wp editor for use anywhere, some plugins have failed to update and make an erroneous assumption that the tinymce editor will be in the wp admin and causes some problems…

Well, I just deactivated EVERYTHING to test, although I think I’ve tried this before. And, when I did that I included Simple:Press as well.  

Then, without thinking it through, I clicked “install” next to the forum plugin and it wiped me out.  

So..now i’ll be restoring my entire site.  I will get back to you after i’m back to where i started.

For it to show ‘install’ you would have had to ‘uninstall’ as opposed to ‘deactivate’. This will – as it says on the popup confirmation box, wipe the forum data completely.

Let us know when you are back up and running but you most probably have a JavaScript conflict – your wp theme or another plugin – which needs to be fixed. This codex article explains what this means and what to look for:

http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/faq/troubleshooting/what-is-this-jquery-conflict/

Not to risk hijacking the thread, but I’m having the same issue.  I followed the link to read about the jQuery conflict, and both libraries noted in that guide load from wp-includes/js/jquery/, so it would seem my problem is something other.

Could it be that I’m running everything through CloudFlare, and perhaps something in the way they’re minifying Javascript?

what version of wp please? seems there might be some issues with WP 3.4 since they made some changes to the editor class in wp 3.5…

WP 3.5, and just upgraded to the latest SP today (today was going to be Launch Day for the new forum, so I just upgraded everything SP a couple hours ago).

Also, FWIW, I went into my CloudFlare setup and created a pagerule to prevent those .js files from being cached or minified.  Blew out my caches, reloaded, still no joy.  So I’m leaning toward it NOT being a CloudFlare issue (and yes, I know that CF is rapidly falling out of favor with folks).

Neil, do you have a link to your site?

also, can you try uninstalling the tinymce plugin and then reactivating it?

do you have any wp plugins (or wp theme) that add stuff to tinymce? seems many of these fail to account for the wp editor (tinymce) being able to be used elsewhere besides the create post panel in the admin and they blindly add their stuff… and cause problems when the editor is used elsewhere…

Sure – the link is here.  And yeah, tried deactivating/reactivating – no joy.  Will try uninstalling Tiny altogether and reinstalling to see if that helps.

The theme adds stuff to tiny (but those are mostly shortcode generators), and a plugin or two does as well.  There’s an Amazon link button in there (although I’d probably be better off disabling it, I never use it), and I just installed TablePress this morning to make tables a little easier to deal with.  (Unfortunately, I can’t simply delete TablePress right this second; it’s kind of at the center of a post that just went live this morning.  Otherwise, I’d test and see if that’s the source of the problem.)

Any red flags I should be on the lookout for if I’m going to dive into the TablePress code?

Deleted / reinstalled / reactivated TinyMCE – no changes.

However, when I went to upgrade TinyMCE from the original version I had downloaded (1.2 to 2.0.3), there was a fatal error in my log – don’t know if it was related.  Details here (new window).

going from 1.2 to 2.0.2 there is a chance for that message since the location of the upgrade moved… kind of random chance on wp activating a mess of stuff if it does the upgrade before or after the new file is there… but its harmless…

Okay thanks.  Reached out to both the developer for my theme, and for TablePress, to ask them about TinyMCE.  Hoping for responses soon.  Other than that, not sure where to turn next.  I’d like to get the forum launched, but none of the other text editors cut the mustard (whatever that saying means).

If you can shed any light on a potential troubleshooting path, I’m all ears.  Thanks!

so just trying to narrow it down… but can you do a temp switch to the default wp theme? and see if any change?

and also perhaps disable that other tinymce plugin and see if it happens…  would at least narrow it down…

thanks for link… I do get a bunch of js errors on your site…

hard to narrow down… two from the page itself and one from plus one… all related to jquery… just not sure where from since as you say, nothing overtly loading from external…

not sure what we have tried but can you also try going to forum – options – global settings and turn off the js combining/cache…  dont think it will matter but worth trying…

Okay – quickly tried everything (nothing worked) and, as a last resort, switched over to the default theme.  BOOM.  Suddenly it’s working again.

My new question: Where do I tell the theme author to look for the source of the problem?