cliffworkz

Same symptoms as many recent posts. I’m perfectly happy with the old visual editor although I don’t really need it to write HTML. Main problem is inability to upload images from Admin post/page edit window. Here’s what I wrote to my host support team:

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“Stuck on this [problem] but maybe there’s a simple answer. For some reason I can’t upload an image file (or other filetype) from my local disk to [mysite.com] from a post or page HTML window of my new WP 4.7.1 upgrade. When I (as Admin) click the “Add Media” button immediately above the text edit window, the controls to browse the local disk should become exposed below the window. But they don’t. The “Screen Options” and “Help” buttons are similarly disabled. I do believe it’s a WP issue that I’ve somehow run into or overlooked, not a theme issue. I’ve checked:

. Admin user I’m logged in as valid Admin
. Text upload of post/page text works ok
. Uploads folder permissions All 775 as they should be, including subs”
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Who generated the .htaccess file you cite: Your host? You? Can’t be WordPress: too host server-dependent.

Great detective work, frikafrax, but can we say that this is the universal cause of the widely reported broken native visual editor…? I’ve listed the contents of mysite/web/content/ “root” directory at my host from a Unix box and can find no .htaccess files. I’m also not sure that the WP native visual editor is tinyMCE (probably not…?). Seems like there must be a more general underlying reason for this disaster. And for a problem that afflicts so many v4.x upgrades, I would think that WP would issue some kind of helpful fix/workaround and put it in a newsletter or–better yet–post it right on the Admin Dashboard page, no…?

Thanks for sharing,
Cliffworkz