Problem after update

Hi @lazykins

What version of WordPress are you on? Are you using the Gutenberg editor?

Hello. Sorry, that would help. I’ve just updated to 5.9 and yes, I am using Gutenberg editor. The theme is Ascend by Kadence.

I can’t reproduce the error on the 2021 theme but let me try to install Ascend and see if there is a conflict there.

Are you currently unable to do anything like edit or save, or is it just showing the error message in the console and otherwise harmless?

I cannot edit or save.
The editing area is blank and there is a dialog box:

The editor has encountered an unexpected error.
Attempt recovery // copy post text // copy error.

The only thing that works is copy error.

ADDING: This doesn’t seem to affect pages with no content.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by lazykins.

I found the conflict. It’s with the Kadence block library. If I go to a new page and attempt to open their library (via the top button) it crashes. It probably crashes when using their custom blocks too.

Oddly enough it didn’t appear until I installed 5.9

Let me see if there’s a quick way to resolve it. I’ll follow up in a bit.

Thank you very much. I’m sure all of my pages on that site use their custom blocks, so you are probably correct.

Hey @lazykins

It might take some time for us to release a patch to resolve the conflict, but I can help you get your site working again. The issue is that one of our block filters is being interrupted by a filter that Kadence added, likely because of some functionality that WP changed in 5.9. Since you’re using the Kadenceblocks through out your site, I can give you some code to disable that filter we include until things get patched up. Are you comfortable with adding a mu-plugin? It probably sounds scarier than it is, but it’s required to add these sort of filters, as we need to disable code that runs before plugin code does.

Basically you add a file to /wp-content/mu-plugins/ (create the directory if it doesn’t exist) and name it anything, like extendify.php. Then in that file you add this:

<?php
add_filter('extendify_load_library', '__return_false');

MetaSlider will look for that filter and since it’s false, will not load the code.

Let me know if you have any questions

Works like a charm! Thanks so much for all of your help!