Got the Visual Editor in WordPress 2.8 working again!

From the WordPress archives page mentioned in my last post, I re-downloaded a fresh copy of the zip/tar file and unpackaged it.

My thought was, perhaps my FTP client is corrupting (by not transferring file types in the correct format (ASCII or BINARY). So, I used a different FTP program – called FileZilla. As a side note, highly recommend FileZilla, they have Windows and Linux flavours.

**Save a backup of your existing files before attempting any overwrites** To quickly save a backup, just rename the folder on your server to something like “wp-admin-backup” and then upload the wp-admin folder fresh.

I connected to my FTP site and for ALL the WordPress folders and files I completely overwrote all the existing files using FileZilla.

As a note, this next step may or may not be necessary – I also looked at the folder permissions and reset them. For example, if the file permission was 755, I used my FTP program to issue the “set to 755″ command again. I wanted to make sure that the folders were current with permission for the default domain FTP user I was logging in with.

Voila! I have the Visual Editor back!

If you still have this issue after a fresh overwrite of files, you can try some other tips from the WordPress Support Forums 2.8 area.