Title: Javascript error Visual editor not working
Last modified: January 11, 2017

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# Javascript error Visual editor not working

 *  [Michael Ullman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mullman99/)
 * (@mullman99)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-error-visual-editor-not-working/)
 * Hello,
 * Recently the visual editor broke; no editing buttons, couldn’t switch between
   visual & text, and text in the edit window was white-on-white.
 * I have auto-updating on, so I have to assume it was with the update to 4.7.1 
   from 4.7
 * Tried all the usual tactics to diagnose – disabled plugins, changed theme to 
   twentysixteen, etc.
 * After pulling my hair out for two days, I found a link to the codex article “
   Using Your Browser to Diagnose JavaScript Errors”
 * Sure enough, turning on script debugging solved the problem.
 * So what do I do now? I have to manually enable script debugging every time I 
   want to create or edit a Post or Page, then disable it.
 * The website is [http://infobizacademy.net](http://infobizacademy.net)
 * Your help would be greatly appreciated!
 * Sincerely,
    Michael Ullman

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-error-visual-editor-not-working/#post-8643692)
 * Try disabling script concatenation. Sometimes, there are just too many.
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Disable_Javascript_Concatenation](https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Disable_Javascript_Concatenation)

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

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