Title: code text area not working
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# code text area not working

 *  Resolved [mkuez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkuez/)
 * (@mkuez)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-text-area-not-working/)
 * Hello,
 * when I do “add new”, I am able to insert the title, but I can’t click inside 
   the code text area. I can see it, but I cannot edit it, I can’t even see the 
   cursor line inside it.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/)

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 *  [szfpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/szfpro/)
 * (@szfpro)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-text-area-not-working/#post-5980711)
 * I am having this same exact issue as well. Very frustrating.
 *  Plugin Author [Shea Bunge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungeshea/)
 * (@bungeshea)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-text-area-not-working/#post-5980730)
 * This is probably due to another plugin loading a conflicting version of CodeMirror
   on the edit snippets page. I have seen this before with the Debug Bar Console
   plugin which loads a very old version of CodeMirror on all admin pages.
 * Perhaps if you let me know which plugins you use I could go through them and 
   see which ones use CodeMirror, or alternatively you could try disabling plugins
   one by one to see which plugin might be causing the error.
 *  [szfpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/szfpro/)
 * (@szfpro)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-text-area-not-working/#post-5980759)
 * Oddly got it working for now.
 * I went into the settings and checked off “Show line numbers to the left of the
   editor.” and saved the settings… the settings did not save but this time the 
   editor appeared blue and has been working ever since.
 * The second time i checked off “Show line numbers to the left of the editor.” 
   the numbers were added and all seems fine.
 * Unfortunately it seems another plugin “Intense Shortcodes” offers a feature called
   SNIPPETS. Not sure exactly what it does.
 *  Plugin Author [Shea Bunge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungeshea/)
 * (@bungeshea)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-text-area-not-working/#post-5980769)
 * There has been a bit of an issue with the settings not saving properly the first
   time they have been saved, but I think that I’ve managed to fix it in the upcoming
   version (2.2.0).
 * > Unfortunately it seems another plugin “Intense Shortcodes” offers a feature
   > called SNIPPETS.
 * “Unfortunately”? What? Why?
 *  [relish1227](https://wordpress.org/support/users/relish1227/)
 * (@relish1227)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-text-area-not-working/#post-5980773)
 * I had the same issue and szfpro’s settings update allowed me to access/edit the
   code field as well.

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