Ever since the WordPress CMS came into existence, it has been helping thousands of users in sharing their stories with the rest of the world. All thanks to WordPress that users can easily write quality content and use the visual editor to make it look attractive — that too from the comfort of their homes or offices.
However, at times when they log into their WordPress dashboard to start writing a post, they may witness many important buttons missing from visual editor panel. It’s a serious issue and should be dealt with immediately to keep things under control.
As a WordPress user, if you want to enjoy your every day writing experience, it is important that you fix this white text and missing buttons error as soon as possible.
In this guide, we will share a step-by-step process to help you resolve this issue easily.
1 White Text And Missing Buttons In Visual Editor
Typically, your WP dashboard looks like this where different buttons for styling (bold, underline, text color, etc.) are available.
However, at times these buttons don’t appear on the dashboard, making it tough for users to edit their posts.
It could be due to any small error which you can fix easily.
Often, the absence of TinyMCE plugin in many WordPress themes causes white text and missing buttons error in WP visual editor.
To resolve it, you can simply go to Plugins and click on ‘Add New’ option.
Now, search for the TinyMCE Advanced plugin in WP plugin store.
Once you are there, install the plugin, activate it and refresh your website. Usually, when this plugin is installed, all the missing buttons in WP visual editor will appear, and the white text error will resolve. If the problem continues, you can clear the browser cache and see if it works or not.
However, if the error doesn’t get fixed even after using the above two methods, it means that a file in your WordPress is corrupted.
What you can do is replace TinyMCE script in your web server to bring things to normal. For this, you can use FTP to access the public_html folder and select wp-includes.
Go to the theme folder.
Upload a brand new copy of js TinyMCE file.
It should fix the problem. If it doesn’t, then go to the wp-config.php folder and click on view/edit.
The text editor will open like this.
Paste this code right after the opening PHP tag – define( ‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false);
Save it and refresh the website. This should help you resolve the problem once and for all.
2 How to fix white text and missing buttons in WordPress visual editor?- Complete Video Tutorial
You can also check this video to learn all the above-stated steps in a better way.
As always, thank you for reading this guide. Please share your experience with us in the comments section below.
Oh my god, i was looking for these all options in editor since 1 month and no plugin was discovered by me so legit as this is. And Find and replace is my favorite BTW.
Hi Michale,
Thanks for your reply.
We are happy to help you resolve the issue on your website.
Keep visiting!
I have found hard refreshing the page always solve this for me.
Hi Collins,
Thanks for your comment.
There could be various reasons for the error. We have tried to mention the common ones in the post.
How can I hard reference my wordpress
Because I am not getting solve by doing all
Hello Vandana,
Sorry to hear that.
Please signup for free by following this URL:
https://mythemeshop.com/#signup
After that, please open a new support ticket by following this tutorial?
https://community.mythemeshop.com/topic/13203-read-first-support-policy-for-free-plugins/
We handle all our theme/plugin related help through our support ticket forums.
https://community.mythemeshop.com/login
One of our moderators will definitely assist you in. You do not need to register separately for posting tickets, you can just log in to your member account on mythemeshop.com, and you will be logged in automatically in the ticket system. Or, you can log in with your MyThemeShop username and password on the ticket system too.
Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
I Am Doing This, but found Theme Error, Can you Tell me, it is Normal WordPress Error or My Theme Error. i Am Using Free Theme provide by WordPress.
Hello Ashwin,
Thank you for your comment and sorry for not following up quickly and any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Can you please open a new support ticket so we can assist you better?
https://community.mythemeshop.com/forum/3-free-theme-support/
Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
hey, was looking for these all options in editor but i can’t fixed, it is Normal Word Press Error or My Theme Error. i Am Using Free Theme provide by WordPress
Hello George,
Thank you for leaving a comment.
This is not caused by MyThemeShop. This is a WordPress related error. You can verify that you are still getting the error by switching to a different theme like Twenty Eighteen temporarily and then switch back to MyThemeShop theme. If you do not see an error when non-MyThemeShop theme is activated – then it is caused by MTS free themes and we can help you fix that. Please open support ticket here: https://community.mythemeshop.com/forum/3-free-theme-support/
We look forward to helping you.
Hello. I was looking for the same issue. Thanks for this guideline!
Hello Ojas,
We are glad you found this helpful.
Thank you for your comment. Stay tuned for more such posts.
I am fed up searching in the internet Finally i reached here thanks for it…
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Glad you found this helpful.
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sir i feel problem and i can’t resolve all of these methods please check what happen
Hello Duni,
Thank you for your comment.
However, could you please elaborate what problem are you facing; you can include a screenshot of your query.
Looking forward to helping you.
Hello Rushikesh,
Glad you liked the post.
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Thank you, a simple browser refresh did the trick. Cheers for the tip that I should have thought of in the first place!
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Where to get “a brand new copy of a tinymce file”. Please elaborate more on that. Thanks!
Hello Eric,
Thank you for leaving a comment.
You can download the files from here: https://www.tiny.cloud/get-tiny/
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello Ojas,
Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment. We appreciate it.
That is exactly what I was looking for, how to replace the files. BUT that website of TinyMCE shows no way to download those files. Everything else under the sun is there but not the basics.
WHERE can I get the replacement files? It would be so easy it seems but I have been spending DAYS on this! To no avail.
Hello Carol,
Thank you for leaving a comment.
You do not need to download the TinyMCE files to use them. You only have to add the code they provide to your website. You can check the code here: https://www.tiny.cloud/get-tiny/
If you must download the files, here is the direct link: https://cloud.tinymce.com/stable/tinymce.min.js
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Thank you for publishing a very informative post. Every post of yours is very awesome, we feel satisfied by reading it. Please keep writing such post further.
Hello Shradha,
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Glad you liked the article.
SOLUTION in my case:
An editor for a client was working properly. They wanted to get their website faster, so I tried out different speed optimization plugins. One of these plugins added into the functions.php file this line:
add_filter( ‘tiny_mce_plugins’, ‘disable_emojis_tinymce’ );
This somehow broke the visual and text editor, and also some buttons in the bar were missing. When I saved a content it was not stored. So I deleted this line saved the file and then the editor toolbar was working again properly.
Hope this helps you guys.
Hello Serkan,
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We appreciate you for leaving this method, we are sure this will help the fellow users.
very nice information sharing
Hello Narayan,
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After a lot of research, I got this article which helped me a lot.
Thanks to the author
Hello Bhupender,
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Glad you found the article helpful.
Searching post on this topic and I found this one really helping
Hello Shakil,
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Glad you liked the article and found this helpful.
Hello,
I don’t get it but in my case it seems only users i have added after 2016 don’t have the visual editor buttons since which seems a month. The original 2 users from 2013 still have the editing buttons.
Any tips/suggestions??
WP 4.9.5
Hello,
Thank you for your comment.
Have you tried updating to the latest version of WordPress?
Are you using any plugin to manage permission of users to your website?
Do let us know so we can help you better.
I have done all the changes but still not working