InnerBlocks – no + button to add a block

• thebobajob

• May 6, 2021 at 2:06 am

Am I missing something or misunderstanding something? I can’t see to get a ‘+’ Add Block button to show in the backend when I select the block which has InnerBlocks in it. I’m not seeing the $template content either

Here is the Register

acf_register_block_type(array(
‘name’ => ‘case-study-block-container’,
‘title’ => __(‘Case Study block container’),
‘description’ => __(‘Case Study block container’),
‘render_callback’ => ‘theme_acf_render_callback’,
‘category’ => ‘custom-blocks’,
‘icon’ => $block_icon,
‘keywords’ => array( ‘BGEN’, ‘case’, ‘study’, ‘block’, ‘container’ ),
‘mode’ => ‘edit’,
‘supports’ => array(
‘mode’ => false,
‘anchor’ => true,
‘jsx’ => true
),
‘example’ => array(
‘attributes’ => array(
‘mode’ => ‘preview’
)
)
));

Here is the code for the block

<?php

$block_abbr = ‘csbc’;
$block_id = $block_abbr . ‘-‘ . $block[‘id’];
if( !empty($block[‘anchor’]) ) {
$block_id = $block[‘anchor’];
}
$block_classes = ‘block block-‘ . $block_abbr . ‘ ‘ . $block_abbr . ‘-‘ . $block[‘id’];
if( !empty($block[‘className’]) ) {
$block_classes .= ‘ ‘ . $block[‘className’];
}

if ( $is_preview ) {
echo ‘‘;
return;
}

$allowed_blocks = array( ‘core/heading’, ‘core/paragraph’ );

$template = array(
array(‘core/heading’, array(
‘level’ => 2,
‘content’ => ‘Title Goes Here’,
)),
array( ‘core/paragraph’, array(
‘content’ => ‘Colorway: Style Code: Release Date: MSRP: ‘,
) )
);

?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div id=”<?php echo $block_id; ?>” class=”<?php echo $block_classes; ?>”>
<?php echo ‘<InnerBlocks allowedBlocks=”‘ . esc_attr( wp_json_encode( $allowed_blocks ) ) . ‘” template=”‘ . esc_attr( wp_json_encode( $template ) ) . ‘” />’; ?>
</div>

• wggl

• June 2, 2021 at 2:53 am

Same issue here…

Somehow the button magically disappeared. 😀

• berlindave

• November 18, 2021 at 7:47 am

I started to have my first attempt with ACF + InnerBlocks and ran into exactly the same problem. Ist there any solution for this?

• anybodesign

• November 26, 2021 at 5:32 am

Same problem here! And same first try with InnerBlocks ^^
I thought I was doing something wrong…
When I insert the block with the editor, I do not see anything… No button to add blocks.
But when I define a template, I see the blocks :/ But still no “add block” button…