Title: 404 using Visual Editor paste buttons
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# 404 using Visual Editor paste buttons

 *  [Peter Wooster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pkwooster/)
 * (@pkwooster)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-using-visual-editor-paste-buttons/)
 * I encountered a strange problem with the Visual Editor on one of our sites. Whenever
   the user clicked either the “Paste As Plain Text” or “Paste from Word” buttons
   they received a “Well that is somewhat embarrassing” 404 message.
 * I eventually tracked it down to the attempt to bring in /wp-includes/js/tinymce/
   plugins/paste/pastetext file. The pastetext.htm file is there.
 * The cure was to copy the /wp-includes/js/tinymce directory from a working site.
   I have no idea when this started or how it got broken, but numerous WordPress
   updates had not fixed the problem. I suspect this might be related to [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-error-missing-js-files-breaks-on-every-upgrade?replies=19](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-error-missing-js-files-breaks-on-every-upgrade?replies=19)

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 * [paste](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/paste/)
 * [tinymce](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tinymce/)
 * [visual editor](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/visual-editor/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Peter Wooster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pkwooster/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-using-visual-editor-paste-buttons/)
 * Status: not resolved

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