Error message “This block appears to have been modified externally”

  • Hi,

    First of all congrats for embracing Gutenberg the way you are doing it and for the really useful plugin.

    I’ve been running into a problem that I know is related to Gutenberg. I’ve been doing some research on the Github tickets, but I didn’t find the solution.

    So, I’m having the infamous message “This block appears to have been modified externally” for the AB testimonials and AB Accordion. And when I tried to convert it to a block again it doesn’t do it properly. Is not an AB block anymore, is a paragraph, ouch!

    It only occurred to me with AB blocks. I don’t know if you can do anything related on how this (re) conversion to block is done, but I’d love to hear any recommendation to avoid this.

    It’s really frustrating… and it can end loosing quite a lot of time if I have to redo every block manually.

    Thanks a lot!

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  • Plugin Author atomicblocks

    (@atomicblocks)

    Hi Nahuai,

    Sorry to hear about those issues! When and how is this happening? Can you let us know a little more about how this is happening on your end so we can see what might be going on?

    When this appears, can you open up the browser console and send us whatever errors appear there? That would be really helpful.

    Thread Starter Nahuai Badiola

    (@nahuai)

    Hi,

    thanks for the prompt answer.

    I didn’t provided the when and why info, because nothing special happened to explain the error.
    So right know I don’t know how to replicate the error (other than create a page with your blocks). If I do I’ll let you know.

    In the other hand, yes, I did captured the console info.
    This is one example:

    Block validation: Block validation failed for atomic-blocks/ab-testimonial (
    Object

    attributes: {testimonialName: {type: “array”, selector: “.ab-testimonial-name”, source: “children”}, testimonialTitle: {type: “array”, selector: “.ab-testimonial-title”, source: “children”}, testimonialContent: {type: “array”, selector: “.ab-testimonial-text”, source: “children”}, testimonialAlignment: {type: “string”}, testimonialImgURL: Object, …}

    category: “atomic-blocks”

    description: “Add a user testimonial with a name and title.”

    edit: function()

    icon: {src: “format-quote”}

    keywords: [“testimonial”, “quote”, “atomic”] (3)

    name: “atomic-blocks/ab-testimonial”

    save: function(props)

    title: “AB Testimonial”

    Prototipo de Object
    ).

    Expected:

    <div style=”background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#32373c” class=”wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-testimonial right-aligned ab-font-size-16 ab-block-testimonial”><div class=”ab-testimonial-text”><p>Vicky supo adaptarse a nuestras peticiones y fue un trato muy agradable. Se hace muy cercana y amena, por lo que todo es mucho más sencillo.</p></div><div class=”ab-testimonial-info”><h2 class=”ab-testimonial-name” style=”color:#32373c”>Beatriz F.</h2><small class=”ab-testimonial-title” style=”color:#32373c”>Getxo</small></div></div>

    Actual:

    <div style=”background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#32373c” class=”wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-testimonial right-aligned ab-font-size-16 ab-block-testimonial”><div class=”ab-testimonial-text”><p>Vicky supo adaptarse a nuestras peticiones y fue un trato muy agradable. Se hace muy cercana y amena, por lo que todo es mucho más sencillo.</p></div><div class=”ab-testimonial-info”><h2 class=”ab-testimonial-name” style=”color:#32373c”>Beatriz F.</h2><small class=”ab-testimonial-title” style=”color:#32373c”>Getxo</small></div></div>

    I hope this info helps you to understand the problem.
    If you need any more details just let me know.

    Thanks!

    Plugin Author atomicblocks

    (@atomicblocks)

    Hi there,

    Some improvements will be coming to all the blocks soon that should fix any quirks you were seeing here. Thanks for the report!

    Thread Starter Nahuai Badiola

    (@nahuai)

    Cool!

    Glad to help.
    Looking forward to try the new update, I hope it solves the problem ??

    Cheers.

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