Block Editor not saving changes

  • Resolved tomward

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    1 year, 5 months ago

    We have a long-running WordPress site, we would like to switch from using the Classic Editor to the Block Editor. To this end we have switched from our very old Theme to the Twenty Twenty Theme – but when we edit Pages/Posts with the Block Editor the changes do not appear to be saved – even though the editor reports that changes are saved e.g. a “Draft Saved” popup. We can use the Classic Editor to edit & save content as usual.

    Things I have tried so far, without success:

    • disabling all plugins
    • using the TwentyTwenty theme
    • Running the Health Check (reports no issues, other than “should use persistent object cache” and “remove inactive plugins/themes”)
    • Emptying local browser cache
    • Empting CloudFlare cache
    • Checking for PHP errors logged (none shown)
    • Checking for Browser console errors on the Block Editor page (none shown)
    • Creating a new Page/Post as well as editing as existing Page/Post – this also does not save any changes, just shows as “Auto-Draft”

    I have found a few other threads with similar symptoms, but none appear to have any solutions, e.g. https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/cannot-save-or-update-posts-with-gutenberg/ https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/text-block-not-saving-changes/ https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/block-editor-still-not-able-to-save/

    Does anyone have any ideas where I can look, or will we be stuck with the Classic Editor for the foreseeable??

    Thanks in advance, Tom

    • This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by tomward.

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  • Thread Starter tomward

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    Nb. using WordPress 6.2.2

    Thread Starter tomward

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    Guess it seems like something going awry with the REST API, this url POST https://www.swog.org.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/8441?_locale=user seems to have a good looking Request & a bad looking 301 & Response

    Thread Starter tomward

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    Turns out server config was redirecting

    https://www.swog.org.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/8441?_locale=user

    to

    https://www.swog.org.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/8441/?_locale=user

    which was returning a 200 success without actually saving the content (which the Block Editor interpretted as a successful save).

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by tomward.
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