Meta box visibility toggle button is broken in WordPress 5.7

  • Resolved mikehues

    (@mikehues)


    4 years ago

    It seems the NextGEN Gallery plugin is causing issues with toggling the visibility of meta boxes in the block editor after updating to WordPress 5.7.

    I’ve disabled all plugins on a development version of my site and tested with the following steps.

    Steps to reproduce the issue.

    1. Enable any plugin that adds a meta box to a post.
    (I tested Advanced Custom Fields, Yoast SEO and Unique Headers)

    2. Add or Edit a post. Clicking the arrow icon in the meta box header toggles the visibility of the meta box contents.

    3. Enable NextGEN Gallery.

    4. Add or Edit a post. The toggle button no longer works.

    Additional Notes:

    – I don’t see any errors in Dev tools console.
    – It doesn’t seem to matter if there is a NexGEN Gallery block on the post or not.

    Version Info:

    Wordpress 5.7
    NextGEN Gallery 3.8.0

    (ACF 5.9.5, Unique Headers 1.7.12, Yoast SEO 16.0.1)

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  • Thread Starter mikehues

    (@mikehues)

    This issues persists in NextGEN Gallery 3.9.0 and beta 3.9.1

    Same issue here, which seriously affects post editing.
    It says it’s been tested with WP 5.7, but it doesn’t work properly with such version.
    Please fix it ASAP, or mark the plugin as incompatible with WP 5.7 to prevent others from falling into the same bug.

    Thread Starter mikehues

    (@mikehues)

    I reached out to Imagely support through a client’s NGG Pro account. They were able to reproduce the issue and a support ticket has been opened. No ETA on fix, but hopefully it will make it into an upcoming release.

    Thanks for the update, @mikehues !

    For those that do not care about using nextgen galleries in new posts, but still need to keep the plugin to display existing galleries (like me), it seems that dequeuing the script that breaks the toggle (post-thumbnail.min.js) may be a workaround:

    wp_dequeue_script('ngg-post-thumbnails');

    Haven’t tested this too much, though.

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