{"id":1656,"date":"2020-03-01T14:21:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T06:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2020-03-01T14:23:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T06:23:23","slug":"fix-broken-wordpress-block-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/fix-broken-wordpress-block-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix A Broken WordPress Block Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had a very weird situation recently. I went to edit a page on a site I'd cloned and the WordPress block editor was completely broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It looked like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image shadow\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-01-600x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-01-600x264.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-01-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-01-768x339.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-01.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I checked the code for broken javaScript, disabled all the plugins, set the theme to Twenty Nineteen, all the things I've said to do in the <a href=\"https:\/\/intelliwolf.com\/how-to-fix-wordpress\/\">How To Fix WordPress manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked through the database for some setting that might explain it, checked my profile, which looked like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image shadow\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-02-600x391.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-02-600x391.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-02-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-02.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The \"Visual Editor\" option was not disabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything should've been working. But it wasn't.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to fix a broken WordPress Block Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Go to <em>Users -> Your Profile<\/em><\/li><li>Select \"Disable the visual editor when writing\"<\/li><li>Save the Profile<\/li><li>Uncheck \"Disable the visual editor when writing\"<\/li><li>Save the Profile again<\/li><li>Now it should be working.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image shadow\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-03-600x425.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-03-600x425.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-03-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-03.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image shadow\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-04-600x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-04-600x260.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-04-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-04-768x333.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-01-wordpress-block-editor-broken-04.jpg 1270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What I think happened is that when I disabled WP Bakery, it must have set the <em>rich_editing<\/em> flag to \"false\" in the wp_usermeta table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some reason, it wasn't causing the <em>Disable Visual Editor<\/em> to be checked, even though it should have been checked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By disabling and re-enabling the visual editor, you should get your Gutenberg Block Editor back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also tried changing the <em>rich_editing<\/em> flag to \"true\" in the database and it also fixed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That might be an option if you've got a few users and you don't want to have to go into all of them in the WordPress admin area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a very weird situation recently. 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