Fix for switchEditors (since WordPress 4.3)

• [email protected]

• August 19, 2015 at 6:31 am

I might be a little hastily here, and this might already be picked up, but thought I’d share it anyway:

Since WordPress 4.3 the switch buttons of the TinyMCE editor have changed. This currently results in the following error:

Uncaught TypeError: switchEditors.switchto is not a function

The fix for this is in acf/fields/wysiwyg.php : Line 297/298
Remove this:
[code]onclick=”switchEditors.switchto(this);”[/code]
Add this:
[code]data-wp-editor-id=”<?php echo $id; ?>”[/code]

(Since I’m only using ACF Pro, this fix is for Pro only, but similarly this should also work for the ‘default’ ACF!

• Bluenotes

• August 19, 2015 at 7:44 am

Sweet. I sent a ticket about this to the devs earlier today. Your fix works on my end.

• John Huebner

• August 19, 2015 at 11:14 am

What version of ACF Pro are you using? Just curious if 5.2.9 corrected this or not because that update does mention compatibility with 4.3.

• Bluenotes

• August 19, 2015 at 11:29 am

I’m on v5.2.9.

• Debasish Panda

• August 19, 2015 at 3:20 pm

Fresh start in the day, noticed new WP version, updated, broke the Editor tab switching, right on the day when I have a ton of content editing to do.

Thank you so much Dennis, solved the Editor tab not switching issue.

For me the code was in line numbers 303 & 304. ACF Pro v5.2.9

• John Huebner

• August 19, 2015 at 9:41 pm

Thanks, was just making sure. I’ll see what I can do to get E to look at this topic

• [email protected]

• August 19, 2015 at 9:59 pm

Don’t think we need water boarding here do we?

• room34

• August 20, 2015 at 5:34 am

Thanks for this fix! It did the trick for me. I’ll second the note that in ACF Pro 5.2.9 the lines in question are 303 and 304.

Hopefully this fix will get rolled into a 5.2.10 update shortly!

• Elliot

• August 20, 2015 at 10:04 am

Hi guys

Thanks for the bug report.

I’ve just spotted this bug too, and will release a fix later today

Thanks for your patience

• Elliot

• August 20, 2015 at 12:59 pm

Hi guys

I’ve just released a new version 5.3.0 to fix this issue.
Please update and let me know how you find it

• MikeNGarrett

• September 25, 2015 at 8:48 am

I’m getting a different error when using flexible content in conjunction with the WYSIWYG.

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'canvas' of undefined
in the quicktags functionality.

Enabling/disabling SCRIPT_DEBUG fixes the issue which is strange.

• MikeNGarrett

• September 26, 2015 at 2:03 am

Ignore me. This was a caching issue.

• Daniel

• October 9, 2015 at 1:40 am

I can’t get the plugin to update to 5.3.1. The license is there, when I check for updates, it tells me that there’s a new version. But when I click on update it just takes me to the plugin update page where there’s no update to be made.

Any ideas?