{"id":13530,"date":"2023-11-23T04:33:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T12:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpjohnny.com\/?p=13530"},"modified":"2023-11-23T04:34:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T12:34:46","slug":"fixing-wordpress-post-edit-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpjohnny.com\/fixing-wordpress-post-edit-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing WordPress post edit errors &#8211; &#8220;not a valid JSON response&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Can&#8217;t save changes to your post? I got the fixes for you these error messages:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Updating failed. Error message. The response is not a valid JSON response.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>or &#8220;Looks like something&#8217;s gone wrong. Wait a couple seconds.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Try these troubleshooting steps:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. Check website address:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to Dashboard > Settings > General<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make sure the WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) are the same.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. Check HTTPS status:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Make sure you have SSL certificates generated and that you don&#8217;t have mixed content issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. Save permalinks:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hit [SAVE] twice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4. Regenerate .htaccess file:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You can restore from a backup.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Or make a new one, using the default. (And then go save permalinks again.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5. Disable WAF firewalls:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This might be from your webhost (such as mod_security) or a security plugin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t save changes to your post? I got the fixes for you these error messages:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"13251,6084,2419,420,4355,12737","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"hf_cat_post":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wordpress-development","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Johnny","author_link":"https:\/\/wpjohnny.com\/author\/johnny\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpjohnny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpjohnny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpjohnny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpjohnny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpjohnny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wpjohnny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13534,"href":"https:\/\/wpjohnny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13530\/revisions\/13534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpjohnny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpjohnny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpjohnny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13530"},{"taxonomy":"hf_cat_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpjohnny.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hf_cat_post?post=13530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}