Gutenberg: Publish or update post doesn't work with Gutenberg 2.3 and 2.4

Created on 16 Mar 2018 · 9Comments · Source: WordPress/gutenberg

Issue Overview

Wordpress 4.9.4, PHP 7.0.19, Database Percona 5.6.35
Publish or update a post doesn't work ("Updating failed") with Gutenberg 2.3 and 2.4.
Deactivating all other plugins does not help.
Changing language from German to English does not help.
Deleting Gutenberg, logout from wordpress, login again , reinstalling Gutenberg does not help.
Tried with Firefox, Chrome, Opera - does not help.
Only if I make a rollback of the plugin to version 2.2 everything works again.

[Feature] Saving [Type] Bug

Source

burnuser

Most helpful comment

Hi, this issue is still occurring for me. I'm not a developer in any way, so if someone can help me troubleshoot, that would be really lovely. I have a SiteGround-hosted WordPress site; WP 5.0.2 and cannot update pages. I get the "Updating failed" error in the editor, and the following console errors in the Chrome Inspector:

POST /wp-json/wp/v2/pages/1242?_locale=user 403
POST /wp-json/wp/v2/pages/1242/autosaves?_locale=user 403

jutta-livingmiracles on 25 Dec 2018

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Thanks for the issue. I can't reproduce this myself.

Can I ask you to open the JavaScript console and see if there are any errors you can share? Here's how to open the console in Chrome: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/console/

jasmussen on 16 Mar 2018

New page, but unable to publish or save it.
Error (replaced real website with term "WEBSITE"):
PUT http://WEBSITE/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/182 403 (Forbidden)
load-scripts.php?c=0&load[]=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils,jquery-ui-core,jquery-ui-widget,jquery-ui-mouse,underscore,shortcode,backbone,wp-util,wp-backbo&load[]=ne,media-models,moxiejs,plupload,wp-plupload,jquery-ui-sortable&ver=4.9.4:4

burnuser on 16 Mar 2018

What content are you putting on the post, or is it just an empty one? Is it literally a post or is it a page or some other post type? I've been having an issue with saving drafts of / publishing posts in Gutenberg since 2.3 (and continuing into 2.4) as well, but only with certain textual content... I'm still trying to figure out precisely what causes it, and every time I try saving the post a bunch of times and get the "Updating failed" error, I end up getting temporarily banned from the server I'm using for around 30 minutes or so. (I'm not using Cloudflare like some other people who posted similar issues were.) And when trying to save the draft / publish I'm getting errors in the JavaScript console on Chromium about PUT requests involving load-scripts.php, but with error code 500. I'm not sure if it's the same or a different bug from what you're having, but I thought I'd post what I know here since I don't think I have enough info to make my own ticket yet.

Also, here are some similar issues I've found which may be related:

2704 #5632

ZebulanStanphill on 17 Mar 2018

Please see also https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/3252 or https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/2565 it might be related to a firewall / security plugin ... and yes some firewall plugin keeps the entries in .htaccess active also if they plugin ist deactivated or uninstalled...

chameleon-tbn on 17 Mar 2018

Same issue here. (I think. Might be different one.)

Details

Environment details

Apache/2.4.29 (Unix) PHP/7.2.3
localhost (whole WordPress instance is contained in a subdirectory, if it matters)
Tried on WordPress 4.9.4 (latest public release) and on WordPress 4.9.5-beta1-42867-src (latest code on SVN)
No firewalls
No security plugins
REST API is accessible at /wp-json
All tests were executed with Chromium 65
Active plugins:
- 4.9.4:
  - Gutenberg: Version 2.4.0 by Gutenberg Team^[1]
  - Health Check: Version 1.0.1 by The WordPress.org community^[1]
- 4.9.5-beta1-42867-src
  - Gutenberg: Version 2.4.0 by Gutenberg Team^[1]

How to reproduce

Open an existing or try to create new post/page
Make any change in the page^[2], and click on "Update"
Error message Updating failed/Publishing failed appears

Network request data^[3]^[4]

General
- Request URL: http://localhost/~nikola/wp495b1/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/11
- Request Method: PUT
- Status Code: 403 Forbidden
Response Headers
- HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
- Server: Apache/2.4.29 (Unix) PHP/7.2.3
Request Headers
- PUT /~nikola/wp495b1/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/11 HTTP/1.1
- Host: localhost
- Connection: keep-alive
- Content-Length: 40
- Pragma: no-cache
- Cache-Control: no-cache
- Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
- Accept: /
- X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
- X-WP-Nonce: [redacted]
- Referer: http://localhost/~nikola/wp495b1/wp-admin/post-new.php
- Cookie: [redacted]
Form Data: title=test&status=publish&content=&id=11 (with no blocks and title set to test)

Console data^[3]

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 (Forbidden)          /~nikola/wp495b1/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/11

Additional Comments

Not sure if it's related, but clicking on Preview gives a blank window with the following text centered in the middle of the screen (& with blank console):

Please wait… 

Generating preview.

Also, "Save Draft" returns HTTP 403 as well.

Installed from Gutenberg and Health Check wordpress.org plugin pages.
Example content:
Title & Classic block, Classic block contains any plain text. Issue still occurs even when Classic block is removed.
The request data is from WordPress 4.9.5-beta1-42867-src, but it is identical in WordPress 4.9.4 as well
Removed unrelated headers