Do you by any chance have the Gutenberg plugin activated separately? If so, can you try deactivating that? A couple of folks have reported an incompatibility with it.
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zkarj
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I do not. I’ve been using native Gutenberg from the inception of the site. The only page-building relevant plugin I have is Otter. As mentioned, if I edit content in a regular page, the logo appears and I can configure the gallery without issue. I’ve done this multiple times.
This might be a conflict between Photonic and Otter, in that case.
There is a roundabout way to get around this. If you have access to the vanilla editor (via “Disable Gutenberg” or something similar), you can create a draft post/page, and launch the editor from there. This generates the shortcode version of a gallery. You can copy the shortcode into a shortcode block on your front-page.
Otherwise, this is harder to troubleshoot. Is Otter a free plugin? I can try installing it locally in that case.
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zkarj
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I am only using the free features of Otter. This is the plugin page link, to be sure it’s the same one: https://en-nz.ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/otter-blocks/
I did try adding a shortcode block but there is no ability to set the width attribute and it ends up rendering hard against the left margin of the page, further left than any of the other content. At least with the unconfigurable Photonic block, I can set the wide width I want and it respects it in the editor.
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zkarj
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I realised there were a couple of other plugins that were block-oriented, so I spun up a staging site to try deactivating them.
The short version… I deactivated ALL plugins and the problem persisted. Interestingly, I inadvertently deactivated Photonic as well at which point the editor put up a placeholder block explaining that I did not have Photonic installed, so it was aware of the block I had left there.
I re-enabled only Photonic, removed the block, re-added it, and I still have the same problem.
My theme is just TwentyTwentyFive, so hardly unusual. I wonder if it’s the placement of the block. It is nested inside two levels of groups.
Header with large title (template part)
Group
Group
Group
Group
Separator
Photonic Gallery
Heading
Query Loop
Footer Newsletter (template part)
There are, of course, other things inside the first two groups.
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This reply was modified 2 weeks, 6 days ago by
zkarj. Reason: Consistent terminology
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zkarj
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Actually, I am a dummy. It’s a staging site so I can put the block anywhere. So, I put it right at the top, before the first template part. Same problem.
It seems, at least for me, it will not work in the Site Editor, only the Post/Page Editor.
Thank you for the detailed steps to replicate this. I will troubleshoot this from my end.
I can confirm that this functionality is broken for the Site Editor. I will work on fixing this soon.
This should be fixed in version 3.25.
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zkarj
(@zkarj)
Thanks, I have confirmed it is now configurable. It has thrown up another issue but I will start a new thread for that.
