Block editor no longer working: only shows HTML

@gretche I’m not quite sure how to achieve what you’re asking.

Sounds to me like your issue is different from mine, though. I recommend creating a separate topic.

I had the same issue in Gutenberg editor and in Elementor’s text and toggle widgets. After reading some posts about Cloudfront header caching, I changed my Cloudfront behavior for wp-login.php to pass ALL headers to Origin and I am working again!

Glad to hear it @gregsh303!

I’m happy to report the same, our site’s editor is working again ??

I asked our host to look into this issue of header caching and he gave me the following explanation and solution:

I added the following to the functions.php file in the theme. Researching it I found that WP does an odd thing in looking at the UserAgent to determine if it should show the editor or not. […] A CDN strips the UserAgent out to improve caching, so the following code forces it to be shown. […]

function richedit_wp_cloudfront () {
   add_filter('user_can_richedit','__return_true');
}

add_action( 'init', 'richedit_wp_cloudfront', 9 );

I can confirm it’s fixed now.

Fixing your headers in CloudFront should take care of this, or utilize the above code in your theme’s functions file (YMMV, of course).

Many thanks to @designsimply for so much help, here and on GitHub. And a thank you to @g3luka for suggesting that headers and CloudFront behaviors were the issue!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by James.

Tried to edit my front page with custom html and then it didn’t work.
So I tried to go back to Visual Editor and it will not render any choices to do this.
Very bad update.
Waste too much time to relearn stuff?
If it ain’t broke why are you changing it?
So disappointed
Confusing
No relevancy with tasks & navigation

You need to install “classic editor” plugin. This will disable “gutenburg changes”. This has fixed the issue for me.

This may be a longshot solution and a very specific scenario for some, but it turns out if your user profile is missing a nickname, the visual editor doesn’t show correctly. I’m not sure exactly what the connection would be between the two, but it sounds like a bug.

The reason my user didn’t have a nickname even though it’s required upon creation was because I created myself as a user directly in the database. This isn’t a common case for everyday WordPress users, but it might be good to verify that all required fields are filled out in the profile section.

not working for me.. thanks for all the hel provided.

Hi all,

Try testing this with a different admin user. In my case it worked and I think it’s related to the problem spencerfcloud mentioned above.

To make sure, I recreated my admin user. Not from the DB, but by using a different admin user. This way you make sure all the user meta data is stored correctly. Probably it can also be done programatically by using the wp_insert_user() function.

Best of luck!

I have an issue inside the Text Block Element. I just go to User and uncheck the “Disable the visual editor when writing” and it works. hope it helps!

@spencerfcloud
That was it, adding the nickname to my admin profile fixed everything.
You totally saved my day!

@jasurdeury Glad I could help!

I’m throwing this reply in here for non-coders like me to break through the “greek” bc this was a VERY debilitating issue…AND A VERY SIMPLE, BOX-UNCHECK SOLUTION…that I almost didn’t understand hidden in a thread of bakery / css / cloudfront references. Super helpful dialogue and it did lead me to solution so thankyou!!! I just didn’t understand it for hours.

For dummies (like me)….:) ….
1). GO TO PROFILE
2). UNCLICK DISABLE VISUAL EDITOR

you are done; blocks returned.
(24 hours of research for this – sigh).
ab

• This reply was modified 6 years ago by amybartlett.

@arabnas

I got the same problem in a website and the problem was from user profile disabled visual editor.

@amybartlett

For dummies (like me)….:) ….
1). GO TO PROFILE
2). UNCLICK DISABLE VISUAL EDITOR

And if it’s already unticked, tick it and save your profile settings then untick and save again.

Not sure why — though possibly a plugin update causes it — the visual editor setting is lost by the database so has to be reset.

@spencerfcloud I found that the nickname was the issue for me as well. Or at least appears to be. Here are the steps that worked for me.

Edit user profile
Checked “Disable the visual editor when writing”
click Update Profile – throws error about nickname.
Enter nickname and Update Profile
Un-checked “Disable the visual editor when writing”
Update Profile

Another way to resolved it. I’m using WP Bakery and I my website on CloudFlare. The problem was the settings for the SSL on CloudFlare. Make sure that it’s set on “Full”.

In my case the “UNCLICK DISABLE VISUAL EDITOR” didn’t worked but the settings on ClouFlare did.