Make it less easy to edit reusable blocks
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In previous versions of Gutenberg the reusable block had an edit button, making authors aware that they were going to edit this block site wide. Now the reusable block is so “well” integrated in the editor that it is not at all obvious that you are actually making site wide changes.
Is there a way to bring back the edit button, or make sure that authors cannot edit reusable blocks?
I’m going to revert back to the WP-block editor included in core, but I really hope this feature is not going to make it in core in it’s current form…
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Hello! Glad others are talking about this too.
The current situation with reusable blocks is far too opaque for regular end users. I just had to figure out where content disappeared to. Turns out that instead of removing the reusable block, the user deleted its contents. This happened only 4 days ago and he had no idea what happened.
Even this proposal is not good enough in my opinion:
As the initial selection (click) will select the Reusable block container. The next click will select the contents inside of it. This makes it just a little bit harder making an accidental change.
The number of times people have to click on white space to get anything to happen is far to great to expect that this two click action will have any meaning to users.
There has to be a lock button of some kind giving a warning that the user is about to change the content of the reusable block. Preferably with the option to remove the block instead of editing it. Hope that is the solution that is used in the end.
I’m afraid that the developers are far to distant from the ordinary people who are using WordPress not 8 hours a day, but maybe a couple of hours a week to update their content.
Hey @bhkh
Check out this comment by Matias: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/32353#issuecomment-918060186
“Yes, locking in general is definitely an important aspect to develop. It should be coming soon: #29864. The initial infrastructure is there, we need to develop a UI now so it can be controlled.”
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