Gutenberg issue: rich text area content get malformated

[Abouhassane]

Hello,

Lately i got the chance to work on a multi-site WordPress installation and i used GUTENBERG to develop most of the site blocks.

The other sites are a basically a replica of the main site with the need to propagate each change of the principal site on all the other sites. Where came the need to use DISTRIBUTOR which was a bless.

The only issue with GUTENBERG/DISTRIBUTOR is for blocks that contain rich-text areas got there content malformed, probably because they contain HTML.

After a bit of research, we found two useful hooks to resolve this issue. I take this chance to share with you the solution:

• Insert the following code in functions.php:

  // Use a filter to format the content
add_filter('dt_pull_post_args', 'distributorFilter');
add_filter('dt_push_post_args', 'distributorFilter');
function distributorFilter($post_array)
{
   $post_array['post_content'] = str_replace('\\', '\\\\', $post_array['post_content']);
   return $post_array;
}

[jeffpaul]

@Abouhassane welcome to Distributor and thanks for the feedback! We're working on a related issue, #430, though it's a couple releases out on the roadmap but we will certainly include your input as we get closer to being ready to work on these issues... thanks!