[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #65040: WordPress Paragraph block throwing "Block contains unexpected or invalid content" error inconsistently on brand new blocks in WordPress 6.9.4
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#65040: WordPress Paragraph block throwing "Block contains unexpected or invalid
content" error inconsistently on brand new blocks in WordPress 6.9.4
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Reporter: playagroup | Owner: (none)
Type: defect (bug) | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Awaiting Review
Component: General | Version: 6.9.4
Severity: major | Keywords:
Focuses: |
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I am experiencing a consistent but inconsistently triggered validation
error on WordPress Paragraph blocks in WordPress 6.9.4 with automatic
updates enabled.
Brand new WordPress Paragraph blocks are triggering "Block contains
unexpected or invalid content" errors under WordPress 6.9.4. The build
structure is a container block housing a GenerateBlocks image block with a
separate container block directly underneath containing the Paragraph
block used as a caption text centered in bold text and this Paragraph
block is where the validator error is occurring unevenly applied meaning
it’s not rejecting every single container block within the new build area
in this years old post I’m re-building.
The critical diagnostic detail: the error fires randomly across newly
created blocks only not the original block farther down the page. Every
single item is built inside the identical block structure I detailed
above. I’m rebuilding this post taking it from one rather GIANT/TALL
container block housing the content into a series of multiple container
blocks so the underlying page structure is leaner and will render even
faster for website visitors. So, there’s the old (original content) below
in that older very tall container block and brand new container blocks at
the top of the post. Each new container block up above is from scratch
nothing is copied from down below. Same block type and build structure,
identical formatting, same build process every time — yet the validator
accepts some and rejects others inconsistently. A plugin conflict would
produce consistent errors. This does not.
Clicking "Attempt Recovery" is destructive — it strips all formatting and
content below the first line of my caption. It is not a viable solution
and the other two options take me from bad to worse territory so all three
in this instance are dead on arrival.
This is not a GeneratePress Premium theme or GenerateBlocks Pro issue. The
error is on the WordPress core Paragraph block.
What I’m running building on: WordPress version 6.9.4, GeneratePress
Premium theme version 2.5.5, GenerateBlocks Pro version 2.5.0.
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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65040>
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