Title: Block Content Warning Message
Last modified: July 31, 2017

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# Block Content Warning Message

 *  Resolved [cheister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheister/)
 * (@cheister)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-content-warning-message/)
 * Hi,
    I am currently checking out Gutenberg for its capabilities for longform 
   articles and it looks pretty good so far. I am getting this error message in 
   the sample post content, when opened in Gutenberg and I don´t know what to do
   to get rid of it
 * “This block has been modified externally and has been locked to protect against
   content loss.”
 * Any suggestions?
 * Many thanks,
    Carsten
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by [cheister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheister/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Tammie Lister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karmatosed/)
 * (@karmatosed)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-content-warning-message/#post-9373977)
 * Hi [@cheister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheister/), I would like to
   know a little more about what you are doing to get this message. For example,
   what editor are you using? Could you give me the exact steps?
 * Thanks for checking out Gutenberg.
 *  [WPDevHQ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdevhq/)
 * (@wpdevhq)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-content-warning-message/#post-9375830)
 * Seems to be a bug!
 * Create content with Gutenberg, save and then exit. If the page/post is then opened
   in the standard editor and a change made there when revisiting it in Gutenberg
   then the warning appears.
 * The frustrating part is there seems to be no way of unlocking it for further 
   editing.
 *  Thread Starter [cheister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheister/)
 * (@cheister)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-content-warning-message/#post-9375909)
 * Yes, that was exactly the reason. I guess they will fix it since it is quit severe.
   Thanks
 *  Plugin Author [Tammie Lister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karmatosed/)
 * (@karmatosed)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-content-warning-message/#post-9378645)
 * For now this has been logged here: [https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/2197](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/2197).
   Just letting everyone know here to follow along, if possible there.

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 * Last reply from: [Tammie Lister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karmatosed/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-content-warning-message/#post-9378645)
 * Status: resolved