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One thing I forgot to add: This is not just happening when I go to insert a photo in an existing gallery. It’s also with new galleries on the same page and new galleries on new pages. And then also, new pages with new galleries on completely different websites. So I don’t know think there’s some kind of underlying error in my website but perhaps it’s a problem on the hosting site and a wordpress update? I don’t know exactly when the problem started happening since I put off dealing with it for several months but I believe it started happening sometime in October.

I’m inclined to leave this as unresolved status in case other people have the same issue and want to chime in? At this point, it doesn’t seem like anyone else is having the same problem.

Yes, that’s actually more or less what I ended up doing yesterday (before reading your response). I played around with Elementor and I found the free version too limited (I couldn’t assign links to individual photos in the gallery). It also wouldn’t let me convert an existing page with gallery without a whole heck of a lot of work (reinserting all the photos, etc). I have very little if no knowledge of coding but somehow I was able to do essentially what you suggest. I used classic editor to insert new photos into the gallery and edited the code, copying and pasting prior photo code but inserting the new photo copied link from media files, updating the image ID, and inserting the new external link for that photo. Since I don’t understand all that goes into every line of code, I had quite a bit of trial and error to get it right but ultimately it worked.

What I found I had to do, however, is once everything was set with classic editor, I had to go back to the page afterwards with the block editor because there were always some errors (although I’m not sure what they were exactly). When I went to the page through block editor, it gave me an error with a button to “recover block” (or some wording to that effect). When I clicked on the recover button, it easily corrected whatever error I had made and everything was fine. So basically, I was just going back and forth between classic and block editors to get things set right since classic is the only way to insert photos and block is the only way to get the coding correct. It’s definitely clunky but I’m glad there’s a manageable workaround that won’t require me to re-do all my photo galleries. Thanks again!

Thank you for your response! It appears to be some issue with the block editor. I’m not sure if it’s tied to my hosting platform or is more widespread but I had the same error when attempting the same action on a completely different website. I’m told I have to wait for a WP update/fix but in the meantime, will have to use a different editor (Elementor was recommended).