Vjatsheslav

Well, it’s difficult to tell what can be the problem, since my problem was Bitdefender. To solve it I simply added my website as an exclusion to Bitdefender and it solved the issue.

First, I would advice you to install a troubleshooting plugin, which allows you to check for issues without actually disabling anything: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/health-check/

Then if this doesn’t help you determine the problem, I suggest you try either turning off your anti-virus protection/malware protection to see if it fixes the issue.

There’s not much risk in turning protection off or a couple minutes. Unless you visit malicious websites often. Plus, Windows 10 is quite secure with their own built-in antivirus/malware so there’s very little risk.

Hope this helps.

By the way the problem with Bitdefender hasn’t been fixed yet as of WordPress 5.0 for me at least.

No, no popups, or anything.

FOUND IT! Turns out it’s my Anti-virus (Bitdefender Free Antivirus 1.0.12.41) blocking something. I’ve excluded my website from protection and now it works like a charm.

The mystery has been solved!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by Vjatsheslav.

I’ve tested it on a demo install at poopy.life. I can replicate the bug there as well. So it seems that this is strictly a Firefox/Edge problem and possibly on my machine only as there’s no such issue reported anywhere else?

Can this be caused by a firewall/anti-virus/htaccess/hosts file?

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by Vjatsheslav.

Yes, I can replicate this on a fresh WordPress install with only Gutenberg and SEO Framework running. I seriously, have no clue now.

Hi,

Then I am honestly baffled, because I’ve no idea what else I can test. I’ve tried clearing browser cache and cookies. I’ve tried changing my DNS. My last attempt will be installing a fresh WP installation and testing it there.

Are you running Windows 10, or Mac?

The problem with how it is currently implemented is it won’t show up until you save a draft first. Then by clicking on title you’ll get the permalink window.

The image title tag has no impact on SEO whatsoever. And it can be edited in the sidebar in Gutenberg once you click on an image block.

I think I explained it wrong. It doesn’t matter which plugin it is. Basically, you can test it with SEO Framework which is a free plugin but it also adds additional settings to the editor, which also cause this bug.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/autodescription/

In other words, it doesn’t seem to be caused by any plugin in particular, but rather caused by inability of Firefox to understand additional settings (custom fields) in the editor.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1n0BkDb4M2S6dO4OcuGYgI9LBP9G2VXCt

All the plugins are updated to the latest version. Bug can be replicated on Firefox 62.0b14 (64-bit) Beta and Firefox 61.0.1 (64-bit).

Okay, so it seems I figured out what causes this issue. The never ending loop begins IF there are additional settings available from other plugins in the editor window.

So those additional settings windows prevent the page from refreshing after you press the save draft/preview/update button.

I don’t know how to explain it better, I better show you. Now you probably know how the default Gutenberg looks. However, as soon as I enable WP Rocket, it adds a custom settings field like so:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BczGqEtOzuO1o8SqblCte2WUSYvu7jFj

And this field becomes the loop that prevents the page from updating. Note that WordPress actually saves the draft, but Save Draft and Publish buttons become unusable.

I am a 100% sure as I have only three plugins enabled when testing this: Gutenberg, Health Check and WP Rocket. If I only leave Gutenberg and Health Check everything works flawlessly.

I hope this helps.

Just tested in Firefox Safe Mode. Still bugged. In Chrome works fine.

I do have extensions on Firefox, which is my main browser. But Edge and Chrome are a fresh install with nothing in them. So I can’t really tell.

Alright, so I downloaded the latest Google Chrome and tried to save draft there. And it turns out it works. Guess it’s a Firefox and Edge problem then?

Update:

I’ve opened the developer tools after I pressed the save draft button and there’s now an error:

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https://pixelprofits.net/wp-admin/load-scripts.php:305:1538
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https://pixelprofits.net/wp-admin/load-scripts.php:3:12392
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https://pixelprofits.net/wp-admin/load-scripts.php:3:9156
trigger
https://pixelprofits.net/wp-admin/load-scripts.php:3:11571
a.event.trigger
https://pixelprofits.net/wp-admin/load-scripts.php:9:8273
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https://pixelprofits.net/wp-admin/load-scripts.php:3:18983
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https://pixelprofits.net/wp-admin/load-scripts.php:304:2963
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https://pixelprofits.net/wp-admin/load-scripts.php:2:27444
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https://pixelprofits.net/wp-admin/load-scripts.php:2:28213
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https://pixelprofits.net/wp-admin/load-scripts.php:4:26925

Any ideas?

Well, I am not certain what is causing this as I have very little knowledge about web development. But the issue is that Gutenberg doesn’t save your draft because certain plugins send it into never-ending loop of “saving”.

What I can tell you is I am running Jevelin Multi-Purpose Theme from ThemeForest and most of the plugins required to run that theme cause this issue.

For example, I’ve established that two non-theme related plugins: easy social share buttons and seo framework caused the bug.

Then I disabled both of these, and it would still get the bug because the SEO tab of the theme was causing the never-ending loading icon. I can’t tell which plugin gives the theme built-in SEO fields.

If you’re a Gutenberg developer, I can send you theme files so you can test it and see if you can replicate this issue yourself.

And yes, every theme/plugin is updated to the latest version.