Topic: GenerateBlocks – copying elements between posts break uniqueness of IDs

Oliver
May 15, 2024 at 3:45 am

Hello Support-Team,

I’ve recreated the issue on a fresh WordPress 6.5.3 installation.
These are the changes I did:
Theme installed: GeneratePress 3.4.0
Modules activated: Blog and Spacing

Plugins installed: GenerateBlocks 1.9.1, GenerateBlocks Pro 1.7.0, GP Premium 2.4.0 and Yoast Duplicate Post.

GenerateBlocks Settings -> CSS PRINT METHOD -> Inline Embedding

Appearance Customize – Use infinite scroll

I’ve created a post Test A containing a grid, a container, an image and a more element.
Grid: HORIZONTAL ALIGNMENT Center
Container: GRID ITEM WIDTH (%) 50
Image: HEIGHT 300px, OBJECT-FIT Contain

Then I’ve created a new post Test B and copy all elemenents from Test A. The result is, Test B contains all the IDs from Test A.

Adding background color and border to Test B

For each post the IDs are unique but not in blog mode

Test A shows the styles from Test B now
David
May 15, 2024 at 4:45 am

Hi there,

it’s a known issue, the copy and pase function can only regenerate unique classes on the same page. And as yet there is no solutiun for this:

To get around that Duplicate, then CUT and PASTE between the posts. The duplicate option generates a new class on the fly.
Oliver
May 15, 2024 at 5:06 am

Hello David,

my post is actually not related to the copy and paste function. It’s related to the style tag rendering on the blog page, like my other post “GenerateBlocks – style tags are missing on blog page”. Because in this case, an earlier post (Test A) reuse the style tags from the later post (Test B). I understand that at the end it’s a problem caused by the user itself, but I don’t think that a default user is aware of this.
I’ve searched the GenerateBlocks documentation for “copy” and for “paste” and couldn’t find any information regarding this issue.

Oliver
David
May 15, 2024 at 5:21 am

The COPY and PASTE issue resulting in duplicate classes isn’t related as such to the other issue ie. the missing style tags.
Which i replied to here:
https://generate.support/topic/generateblocks-style-tags-are-missing-on-blog-page/#post-108789

I’ll add some more info to that reply i a moment.

The COPY and PASTE issue generally only shows up in support topics where users have copied blocks from a Post to a GP Element, where both instances of the block would be seen on the front end.