Title: Visual Editor Suddenly Missing
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Visual Editor Suddenly Missing

 *  [Alan Wood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwmacosx/)
 * (@gwmacosx)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-suddenly-missing/)
 * It was working fine last night. I logged in to PhP Admin and did a repair and
   also optimize database. I have tried turning off all plug-ins. I have tried using
   the basic theme that is default for wordpress. I have also reinstalled wordpress.
   But my visual editor is gone. Only the HTML editor is showing and before where
   there were two tabs for Visual and HTML, those tabs to switch back and forth 
   are missing.
 * How do I get my visual editor back?
    [](http://www.totalbounty.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/disable-wordpress-visual-editor1.png.png)

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 *  Thread Starter [Alan Wood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwmacosx/)
 * (@gwmacosx)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-suddenly-missing/#post-5107253)
 * Wow I feel dumb. I spent hours doing advanced stuff an overlooked the simplest
   step to check first. I don’t know how or why I did this but on the My Profile
   settings the “Disable the Visual Editor” option at the very top had been clicked
   by mistake. I unchecked that box and everything is fine again.

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 * Last reply from: [Alan Wood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwmacosx/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-suddenly-missing/#post-5107253)
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