Shortcode conversion problems

  • Resolved webelaine

    (@wpgirl369)


    4 years, 9 months ago

    Some of my sites contain a great deal of shortcodes. For example, we use Gravity Forms heavily and so there are a lot of GF shortcodes. Unfortunately, when we run this plugin to convert to blocks, the plugin creates a shortcode block – but it does not include the shortcode itself, just an empty shortcode block, so the form is lost.

    This also happens with custom shortcodes – we have [row] and [column] as well. It seems as though the plugin could extract the shortcode itself (i.e. ‘gravityform’) and include that in the shortcode block, as well as any attributes (i.e. ‘id=”1″ title=”false”‘) without ever having to know what the shortcode does. Perhaps this is a bug – Core developers sure have changed blocks a lot already, so it wouldn’t surprise me if this plugin initially converted shortcodes successfully, but the current version of WP Core has updated something that broke the ability of the plugin to extract the shortcode and its attributes.

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  • Plugin Author Organic Themes

    (@organicthemes)

    Hello,

    The Bulk Block Converter plugin relies on the core Gutenberg block conversion functionality. Meaning, the plugin doesn’t actually process the conversion, Gutenberg does. The plugin simply makes it possible to convert multiple posts and pages at once from a single interface. As a result, the issue is with the way Gutenberg handles the conversion.

    The same issue occurs without the plugin installed, when navigating to a page that has shortcodes contained within a “Classic” block, and then choosing the option to convert to blocks.

    If the issue is a concern, opening a support ticket with Gutenberg and/or WordPress might be the best course of action, https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/gutenberg/

    If this was an issue with the plugin itself, we would work to resolve the issue. Unfortunately, the issue is a core issue that the plugin cannot address. Maybe if enough of us let WordPress know this is an issue, they will push a fix in core.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter webelaine

    (@wpgirl369)

    Not sure what happened to the author’s response – which was:

    The Bulk Block Converter plugin relies on the core Gutenberg block conversion functionality. Meaning, the plugin doesn’t actually process the conversion, Gutenberg does. The plugin simply makes it possible to convert multiple posts and pages at once from a single interface. As a result, the issue is with the way Gutenberg handles the conversion.

    The same issue occurs without the plugin installed, when navigating to a page that has shortcodes contained within a “Classic” block, and then choosing the option to convert to blocks.

    If the issue is a concern, opening a support ticket with Gutenberg and/or WordPress might be the best course of action, https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/gutenberg/

    If this was an issue with the plugin itself, we would work to resolve the issue. Unfortunately, the issue is a core issue that the plugin cannot address. Maybe if enough of us let WordPress know this is an issue, they will push a fix in core.

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    My reply: Thank you for the quick response. I had no idea Core was able to process conversions. I’ll definitely follow up with the Block Editor’s support channels – I’d be surprised if there isn’t already an issue, but if not, I can certainly add one.

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