I'm using several WYSIWYG fields. The Visual tab works fine: I can enter texts, bullet lists, etc. and save it. However, the Text tab is always completely blank. Shouldn't I see the HTML there?
It looks like the editor itself is standard WordPress. I found it is used in other plugins as well, e.g. Code Snippets. There, the Visual and Text tabs both work fine.
If you go to the homepage, edit it, and open the Content summary, you can see the problem. This is just an example, it happens for all Meta Box fields.
But if you go to Code Snippets, open any script, and scroll down to the Description, you'll find the same editor without this issue.
I'm using the Code Snippets plugin. I added a CSS snippet and set it to "Administration area styles". There are other ways to do it too.
Are you also using WPML or Fluent Forms by any chance? For a moment I thought they caused this, but it's really hard to find the actual cause, so I gave up and am using the work around.
I think it requires Pro. I have the Pro version as well.
You may also want to try to switch your theme to a default WP theme. If the problem still persists, you have a good case for Meta Box support to look into.
So the solution for me ended up not needing the code snippets pro plugin or to add any .css.
It was quite a simple fix actually. My id field looked like this: faq:_answer, which was from my label being FAQ: Answer. Apparently, the colon and the underscore causes an issue like this. I changed the id to faqanswer. No special characters and no spaces and it's fixed! Hope this helps someone else out there!
Question to Meta Box support: does the above info perhaps help you to solve this? I only use underscores as a "special" character in field IDs. I assume that's not causing this as it's common practise.
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