I’m not sure if this is a problem, or it’s meant to happen.
I have a site that got originally built with SO Page Builder. Then the client wanted special features (eg: a specific layout for Product pages), so we disabled Disable Gutenberg and built those pages using a unique layout. Please see https://www.skn-rg.com/face-cleansers/ and https://www.skn-rg.com/product/cleansing-ritual/ as examples.
Now we have a site running SO Page Builder and Gutenberg together.
On the back end the older pages load in the usual way – you see rows of page builder panels with the Classic WordPress right hand sidebar. Newer pages load with Gutenberg ‘first’, but we are able to edit the page builder panels once we select the Edit button, then it all turns back to Page Builder. And these pages have the Gutenberg style right hand side bar.
The issue is not the fact that it initially looks different, but my client has been having problems with the loading time of these pages. The pages that show the mixed Gutenberg and Page Builder components load a lot slower than the older pages that only show Page Builder panels.
Is there something wrong? Or is this what it does?
Hi, thanks for reaching out.
I’m not quite following what’s happening below:
Newer pages load with Gutenberg ‘first’, but we are able to edit the page builder panels once we select the Edit button, then it all turns back to Page Builder. And these pages have the Gutenberg style right hand side bar.
Are you using the SiteOrigin Layout Block? If you can perhaps send screenshots to help explain the above, that’ll be great. You can upload to imgur.com or any similar site like Drive and share the link.
Hi, yeah, I understand. I have put a few images here
https://imgur.com/a/sMSZwW4
They are not necessarily in the right order, but the top image is one of the pages that take several minutes to load (eco-conscious), and basically shows Gutenberg even though the page wasn’t built with Gutenberg, it was made with page builder. This page was done fairly recently.
Next image shows page loading.
Last image shows one of the older pages loading Page builder as it should do. This page and others like it load much quicker.
So it looks to me like the pages that try to load Gutenberg go really slowly. My client had white screen of death with this page.
NB: This is all to do with using the back end.
Thanks for the update.
The Block Editor is more resource-intensive. We’ve seen challenges of this nature in other client sites, not necessarily on pages using the SO Layout Block. The Classic Editor plugin allows pages to be opened in either the Block or the Classic Editor. It is possible to manually migrate a page from the Block Editor to the Classic Editor assuming the only block is a SiteOrigin Layout Block.
In the Block Editor, edit the Layout Block, click LayoutsImport/ExportDownload Layout. With the JSON file on your desktop, open the same page in the Classic Editor, click on the Text tab, clear the contents, click on the Page Builder tab and import the layout via LayoutsImport/ExportDownload Layout.
If you’d prefer to troubleshoot the user issue. When the white screen occurs, please, ask the user to open the browser console. You should be able to see the available errors there.
https://wordpress.org/support/article/using-your-browser-to-diagnose-javascript-errors/#step-3-diagnosis