Title: WordPress 3.8.1 visual editor problem
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WordPress 3.8.1 visual editor problem

 *  [SuyaLynx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suyalynx/)
 * (@suyalynx)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-381-visual-editor-problem/)
 * I have read these topics about the same problem
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-not-working-after-381-update?replies=8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-not-working-after-381-update?replies=8)
   
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-missing-in-381?replies=9](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-missing-in-381?replies=9)
   and many more from google search results
 * but those topics did not really help me solve the problem. as the last resort
   I tried to do a fresh install on both my server and my local pc. the server still
   produce the problem, yet the local installation works smoothly. feel so desperated
   I gave up and contact my webhost admin to ask about it. he said, there are lots
   of problem like that on their support ticket, most of them caused by security
   plugin (such as bullet-proof). he then tell me to remove said plugin (if exist)
   and revert htaccess to the default/basic WP one
 * finally, after reverting htaccess, the visual editor came back.
    now my question
   is
 * I did not use any said security plugin. I did however have some RedirectMatch
   rules and it seems causing the visual editor gone.
    Why did the RedirectMatch
   interfere with visual editor? I have use it for such a long time side by side
   with wordpress

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-381-visual-editor-problem/#post-4781352)
 * That can’t be answered without knowing what redirects you had set up.
 * The only thing that I could offer is a “good guess” that there was some rule 
   that was conflicting with one of more of the files that the editor relies upon.
   Just going by the name of `RedirectMatch` it sounds like there’s some heavy-duty
   regex matching going on in that, and that can be very hard ot get right. If it
   works after removing the RedirectMatch plugin, then that’s where you’d need to
   start to find out which rule is the one that’s causing the problem.
 *  Thread Starter [SuyaLynx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suyalynx/)
 * (@suyalynx)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-381-visual-editor-problem/#post-4781442)
 * The regex set for my `RedirectMatch` are
 *     ```
       ^/admin$
       ^/@$
       ^/\+$
       ^/da$
       ^/fdl$
       ```
   
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-381-visual-editor-problem/#post-4781443)
 * Nothing there stands out, but that doesn’t mean that that’s not the problem.
 * Can I ask why you have the redirect plugin there in the first place?
 *  Thread Starter [SuyaLynx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suyalynx/)
 * (@suyalynx)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-381-visual-editor-problem/#post-4781444)
 * the `admin` regex, redirect to wp-login.php
    the others redirect to my social
   account and some long bookmark
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-381-visual-editor-problem/#post-4781445)
 * OK. Well, there’s not much that I can do to help about that then if you need 
   those. It’s very hard to say what the problem is because it’s hard to say which
   files have been blocked or redirected from those entries, so all that I can suggest
   is trying to remove them all one-by-one and see if that helps. That way you’d
   know the one/ones that are causing the issue and you might be able to do something
   to fix it.
 *  Thread Starter [SuyaLynx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suyalynx/)
 * (@suyalynx)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-381-visual-editor-problem/#post-4781446)
 * Well I can just make a folder then create a new .htaccess with `RedirectMatch`
   there.
 * Still curious about the problem though. I’ll keep the topic stay at ‘not resolved’
   just in case someone come with new idea

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

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 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [SuyaLynx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suyalynx/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-381-visual-editor-problem/#post-4781446)
 * Status: not resolved

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