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Anyone else seeing broken ACF blocks on WordPress 7.1?

20 August 2026 at 11:30

I just updated a test WordPress site to 7.1 and it appears ACF Pro's ability to create blocks has been somewhat broken by the new release. When I add a new block to the page, the "edit" pencil icon no longer appears, which forces the block's editor to appear in the right hand sidebar of the block editor. In addition, the "mode" selector in block.json which I always set to "edit" no longer seems to work, so all blocks now default to a preview rather than an editor.

I was just curious if anyone else had also run into this on WP 7.1 with the 6.8.8 release of ACF Pro and if there's any info on whether a fix is coming or if manual updates to the block structure are needed to work with the new way the block editor loads blocks in 7.1. If anyone has any info that would be appreciated, thanks!

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