Old problem back again: blank edit screen after 5.0

  • Turns out I’ve solved it for now, but I wanted to share this in case it helps others (also, holy hell WordPress! It was hard as heck to find the actual forum where I could post. What are you even doing!?)

    Anyway, the problem is that the dashboard and actual site work great, but when I click to edit a post or page, all I see is a white screen. Checking the browser console, I can see a variety of errors that aren’t related to my page or plugins (as far as I can tell).

    I know there was some kind of problem installing the upgrade the first time so I manually downloaded and overwrote all the files (this all took place on my local server by the way). That did nothing. Turning off plugins did nothing.

    I was able to get it to work by reverting to 4.9.something and then trying the upgrade function again. But that didn’t do it entirely… that’s when I noticed that there was an option for “classic editor”. I installed the “classic editor” plugin and it works fine. Block editor does not.

    Having checked out the block editor, I don’t care if it ever gets fixed. I write in HTML and don’t want WSYWIG and can’t understand why WordPress would force the issue. It’s a bad business decision, but at least I have until 2021 before I have to do something about it. Until then, classic editor works if the blockhead one doesn’t (at least it did for me).

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  • Moderator Marius L. J.

    (@clorith)

    Hiya,

    So I see you mentioned seeing errors in the JS console, this does usually indicate a conflict from a plugin or theme. If you’d share the errors we’d known a bit more about that, so if you feel like giving the new editing experience another try, we’ll be here to help you troubleshoot and find the reason it’s failing for you.

    I’m seeing the same problem – or closely related. Suddenly (there have been changes, updates etc. in between, the editor is not used every day) – the block editor doesn’t work. I installed the classic editor, which works fine, so I’m off the hook as far as emergencies are concerned.
    The block editor stops with a blank page – and the browser console says ‘Syntax Error unexpected token ‘<‘ ‘.
    This happens when it is opening the ‘dist’ subdirectory in the wp-includes directory. It is getting an apache directory index listing instead of whatever it should be getting:
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN”>
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Index of /wp-includes/js/dist</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <h1>Index of /wp-includes/js/dist</h1>
    ….
    Apparently some config issue, but I have not been able to figure out what. Any idea where I should be looking?
    I’m using php-fpm in case it matters, and Cloudflare.

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