Navigation: Avoid content loss when only specific entity fields are e…

…dited (#60071) Co-authored-by: Mamaduka <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: jsnajdr <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: annezazu <[email protected]>
WordPress · Mar 25, 2024 · 7b6ac8d · 7b6ac8d
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diff --git a/packages/block-library/src/navigation/index.php b/packages/block-library/src/navigation/index.php
@@ -1520,6 +1520,14 @@ function block_core_navigation_update_ignore_hooked_blocks_meta( $post ) {
 		return $post;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Skip meta generation when consumers intentionally update specific Navigation fields
+	 * and omit the content update.
+	 */
+	if ( ! isset( $post->post_content ) ) {
+		return $post;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * We run the Block Hooks mechanism to inject the `metadata.ignoredHookedBlocks` attribute into
 	 * all anchor blocks. For the root level, we create a mock Navigation and extract them from there.