Title: TinyMCE not working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# TinyMCE not working

 *  [hal9000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hal9000/)
 * (@hal9000)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-not-working/)
 * ok for some time i have had a problem with my live site and tiny mce was not 
   working – i only had the html editor.
    I put this down to to many plugins with
   confused settings etc and thought when 2.5 was out i would upload the files into
   a clean folder and copy over the wp-config.php file and hey presto a new clean
   copy with the existing database but clean files.
 * Well i did this and everything seemed fine. till i looked in the admin.
    no option
   for visual editor ! just html 🙁 I have been keeping up with 2.5 dev and deployed
   each version of my desktop xamp wamp uniserver and wampserver servers and each
   one worked like a charm with both visual and html editors so where is the setting
   that i can only guess must exist on the database somewhere to say ‘don’t use 
   visual editor’ (as this is the only thing i havent changed – keeping my old database
   code).
 * I have done the old epty cache cookies etc and multiple refreshes
 * yours hal9000

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-not-working/#post-724771)
 * You might have the visual editor disabled. Go to Users->My Profile and turn it
   on for yourself.
 *  Thread Starter [hal9000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hal9000/)
 * (@hal9000)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-not-working/#post-724775)
 * Well now i just feel like an idiot.
    seems like a slightly strange place to put
   it but i guess it’s kinda sensible. like i said i guess it must be a setting 
   kept alongside your user info in the DB, and thats why a fresh install with the
   same DB didn’t make any difference. Thanks ever so much. at least i have the 
   satisfaction of a fresh clean install ! 🙂

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

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tinymce-not-working/#post-724775)
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