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Your code looks ok and would work in any other component other than colors, because colors need the higher-order-component withColors. In the past I struggled also dealing with the behaviour, that your are describing and found these two solutions: If you want to insert your own color component, check the second example from here https://awhitepixel.com/blog/add-custom-settings-to-existing-wordpress-gutenberg-blocks/. … Read more

I’m not sure if there’s a direct way to inspect an attributes default value but one way would you can indirectly achieve this is to store the default value in a variable. You could then reference it from inside the attribute object and from the edit and save functions. e.g. (untested) const amountDefault = 1; … Read more

There are multiple better ways to get a list of posts in a Gutenberg block, other than rendering serverside. First is to use the Wrodpress wrapper around Redux and select posts exactly like in the Gutenberg Handbook: edit: withSelect( function( select ) { return { posts: select( ‘core’ ).getEntityRecords( ‘postType’, ‘post’ ) }; } )( … Read more

The issue here is on the PHP side. First we need to figure out if the meta key has been saved before and send this information to the editor. Once in the editor we can assign a default value if the meta key is new. The way to check this is using get_post_custom_keys. We need … Read more