[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #52779: Error with saved blocks

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#52779: Error with saved blocks
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 Reporter:  lumay         |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  5.7.3
Component:  Editor        |     Version:  5.7
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  dev-feedback  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by psyctc):

 I have been advised by gizmo2501 to put my comments that are in
 https://wordpress.org/support/topic/5-7-reusable-blocks-are-a-backwards-
 step-2/#post-14552579 here ... so I am.

 "I am deeply frustrated by reusable blocks. The idea is clearly excellent
 but my experience, in both 5.7.1 and 5.7.2 is that, at least for what I
 want to do, that they are fundamentally broken and I suspect that is
 because the design is fundamentally misconceived. I have a pages that are
 for chapters of a book and it seemed a brilliant option to create a
 “navigation block” at the bottom of each that would be table of three
 columns: previous | book overview | next with small font and different
 background colour from the rest of the page. I would insert that into the
 bottom of each page, convert it from reusable to ordinary, add the correct
 links to “previous” and “next” so that they would jump to the preceding
 chapter and next chapter. Seemed perfect use for reusable blocks and would
 save me an hour or two that it would take me to build the table for each
 page.

 What I get is a total mess: generally WP isn’t offering the option to
 convert to ordinary block, if you want to manage reusable blocks you lose
 changes in your page. I suspect some of the problems may be corner cases
 of using a table in a reusable block but surely we need blocks as a full
 heading on the dashboard menu so we can edit reusable blocks and manage
 them quite separately from the pages and the saving of pages and of their
 reusable blocks needs to be rewritten so that it correctly separates the
 two quite distinct saves. Surely at that point it would be wise to prompt
 “If you save this block it will update all other uses of it: maybe you
 want to convert it to an ordinary block?” and offer a Y/N option there.
 That would have saved me hours of mess."

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