Grouped blocks don’t stay grouped

  • Hi. I’ve been trying to group blocks together – a header, a YouTube embed, and a quote – so that I can easily move around and rearrange them as a whole. But they won’t stay grouped. They become ungrouped when I work on another block outside the group. It very tedious to move each block one by one. How to do make the grouped blocks stay grouped forever? Or until I specifically ungroup them, anyway. ??

    Can’t give you a link to the page because the post is still unpublished.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • Thread Starter gorgeouskitty

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    By the way, I’m trying to make 13 groups, each with a header, Youtube embed and quote. I need to be able to rearrange the groups more easily as I’m trying to decide their order.

    Thread Starter gorgeouskitty

    (@gorgeouskitty)

    Also, I expected the group function to be the same as the one in Photoshop where when you link layers together, they move around the page together. But the arrow up and down buttons are unclickable when the group is selected. So I still had to move each element in the group one by one.

    Hi,
    I’ve tried to reproduce you steps :
    – header
    – video
    But for me, the group remains visible. Note, there is a breadcrumb at the bottom left of the script which lets you navigate around groups and block. Can you screenshot that section after having clicked on a video that is supposed to be on a group? Here is my result :

    https://nimb.ws/oA8I2u

    I’m using WordPress 5.4.1

    Thread Starter gorgeouskitty

    (@gorgeouskitty)

    Hi! Thanks for trying to recreate it. Ah, so it’s already grouped but in your screenshot, the arrow up and down button only activated for the header, it doesn’t include the video. So when you move the header up or down, the video doesn’t go with it.

    I’m trying to be able to move the group as a whole more easily. Arrow up and down buttons disappear when the group is selected. I can only drag the group, but that creates a break in the page where I moved it from. (What I mean by break is an empty rectangle with a plus sign in the middle.) Anything above this rectangle can no longer be moved below it and vice versa.

    Anyway, I just finished my post the hard way. I was finally able to find a way to delete the rectangle breaks so the barriers were removed. Then I moved each block one by one, header, video, quote – all 13 sets – by clicking the arrow up and down buttons for each block. Took some time but I managed. I don’t look forward to doing it again. Hehe.

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