# Broken text editor (including in safe mode) after installing and uninstalling plugins

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-text-editor-including-in-safe-mode-after-installing-and-uninstalling-plugins/189426
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 5, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-text-editor-including-in-safe-mode-after-installing-and-uninstalling-plugins/189426 "2021-05-05T21:24:48Z")
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### Author: ![Admin\_Plateia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/admin_plateia/32/198681_2.png) [@Admin\_Plateia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Admin_Plateia)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-text-editor-including-in-safe-mode-after-installing-and-uninstalling-plugins/189426/1 "2021-05-05T21:24:48Z")

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Hello,

New discourse instance here: [https://plateia.cc/](https://plateia.cc/)

I tried to install three plugins (discourse-checklist, retort, discourse-math) earlier, and immediately noticed my text editor was broken:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/a/9a03bff34bd0ed816cc4950ba6c8ca4e4cd56ae3.png)

- There are no markdown and emoji tools
- No preview (tried to click the arrows a few times)
- Drafts don’t seem to be auto-saved anymore
- There are no javascript errors in the browser console
- I tested on both chrome and edge

The text editor is broken in the same way for creating new topics and post replies.

So I immediately commented out these three new plugins and rebuilt, my current app.yml plugin section looks like this:

```plaintext
## Plugins go here
## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/19157 for details
hooks:
  after_code:
    - exec:
        cd: $home/plugins
        cmd:
          - git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git
# - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-checklist
# - git clone https://github.com/gdpelican/retort
# - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-math

```

After rebuild and restart, the functions of these plugins are gone, however, my text editor is still broken.

I’m at loss here since there are no javascript errors, have no idea how to troubleshoot or go back to the previous state before I installed these plugins.

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### Author: ![Mark\_Schmucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mark_schmucker/32/124810_2.png) [@Mark\_Schmucker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mark_Schmucker)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-text-editor-including-in-safe-mode-after-installing-and-uninstalling-plugins/189426/2 "2021-05-05T21:29:50Z")

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Try selecting a category.

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### Author: ![Admin\_Plateia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/admin_plateia/32/198681_2.png) [@Admin\_Plateia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Admin_Plateia)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-text-editor-including-in-safe-mode-after-installing-and-uninstalling-plugins/189426/3 "2021-05-05T21:38:07Z")

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It doesn’t help. Post replies have the exact same issues.

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### Author: ![Mark\_Schmucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mark_schmucker/32/124810_2.png) [@Mark\_Schmucker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mark_Schmucker)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-text-editor-including-in-safe-mode-after-installing-and-uninstalling-plugins/189426/4 "2021-05-05T21:45:47Z")

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My site (updated 12 hours ago) is “broken” as you describe until I select a category, then it’s fine.

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### Author: ![Admin\_Plateia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/admin_plateia/32/198681_2.png) [@Admin\_Plateia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Admin_Plateia)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-text-editor-including-in-safe-mode-after-installing-and-uninstalling-plugins/189426/5 "2021-05-05T22:28:40Z")

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Nevermind, I found out the theme I used was breaking it

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-text-editor-including-in-safe-mode-after-installing-and-uninstalling-plugins/189426/6 "2021-06-04T22:28:47Z")

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