Reply To: Block Data changes after field change

• modemlooper

• March 13, 2022 at 6:32 pm

I found another option, you can add to wp.data.dispatch(‘core/editor’) meta that isn’t saved and can be sorta a transient between blocks.

Register a meta field to a post type and then use dispatch to save data. The interesting thing about this is you don’t need to save it to database as Gutenberg editor has an in memory data store for meta until you actually hit the save button.

	register_post_meta(
		'post',
		'acf_sync',
		array(
			'auth_callback'     => function() {
				return current_user_can( 'edit_posts' );
			},
			'sanitize_callback' => 'sanitize_text_field',
			'show_in_rest'      => true,
			'single'            => true,
			'type'              => 'string',
		)
	);

wp.data.dispatch('core/editor').editPost({meta: {acf_sync: JSON.stringify(sync)}});

const meta = wp.data.select('core/editor').getEditedPostAttribute('meta').acf_sync;