Can't edit any blocks, and columns show the share button.

Permalink March 13, 2017 at 1:56 AM

I log into my concrete5 website (c5 version 5.7.5.13, using the elemental theme) as admin and click the pencil icon to edit the home page.

Oddly, I can't edit any block. Hovering over any column shows the share icon next to the column name (see attached). Clicking on the content block does nothing.

Yesterday, I was able to edit content just fine. What could have happened?

* Note:

I see an error in Chrome developer tools related to underscore.js:

underscore.js:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'replace' of undefined
at Function.x.template (http://www.yi.chizeng.com/concrete/js/underscore.js:1:13153)
at x.(anonymous function) [as template] (http://www.yi.chizeng.com/concrete/js/underscore.js:1:12648)
at d.Area.init (http://www.yi.chizeng.com/concrete/js/app.js:5:17901)
at d.Area (http://www.yi.chizeng.com/concrete/js/app.js:5:17665)
at HTMLDivElement.<anonymous> (http://www.yi.chizeng.com/concrete/js/app.js:5:3700)
at Function.each (http://www.yi.chizeng.com/concrete/js/jquery.js:2:2975)
at m.fn.init.each (http://www.yi.chizeng.com/concrete/js/jquery.js:2:835)
at d.EditMode.scanBlocks (http://www.yi.chizeng.com/concrete/js/app.js:5:3627)
at d.EditMode.init (http://www.yi.chizeng.com/concrete/js/app.js:5:3282)
at d.EditMode (http://www.yi.chizeng.com/concrete/js/app.js:4:28361)

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davidfauxfireflies replied on Mar 13, 2017 at 4:28 am Permalink Reply 1 Attachment

Yeah, clicking the guide on how to edit content doesn't help. It just shows the popup above the block, but the block is not editable at all.

davidfauxfireflies replied on Mar 13, 2017 at 4:35 am Permalink Reply

Ok, I solved the problem by following the advice in this forum.
https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/5-7-discussion/uncaught-t...

Specifically, I caused this issue of making no blocks editable by surrounding this block of code (within header.php) with an anchor tag (<a>):

<a href='/'>
                  <?php
                    $a = new GlobalArea('Header Site Title');
                    $a->display();
                  ?>
</a>

I solved the problem by using PHP to create the anchor tag instead.

<?php
                    $a = new GlobalArea('Header Site Title');
                    $a->setBlockWrapperStart('<a href="/">');
                    $a->setBlockWrapperEnd('</a>');
                    $a->display();
                  ?>
            </div>