{"id":126047,"date":"2024-01-09T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpsimplefix.com\/?p=126047"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:40:41","slug":"how-to-fix-wordpress-post-edit-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/how-to-fix-wordpress-post-edit-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Fix WordPress Post Edit Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You getting a <strong>post edit error<\/strong> and can&#8217;t save modifications to your post? I have these error message remedies for you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The update failed. Invalid in JSON format.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPublishing failed and invalid JSON response\u201d<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Seems like there&#8217;s a problem. Give it a few seconds.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fix Post Edit Errors<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Verify the address of the website:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select Dashboard &gt; Preferences &gt; General.<\/li>\n<li>Verify that the site address (URL) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress<\/a> address (URL) match.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>Verify the HTTPS connection:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Verify that SSL certificates have been generated and that there are no problems with mixed content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>Check your permalinks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Navigate to Settings &gt; Permalinks in Dashboard.<\/li>\n<li>Press <strong>SAVE<\/strong> twice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Regenerate the .htaccess file :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A backup can be used for restoration.<\/li>\n<li>Or use the default to create a new one. (After that, go save permalinks once more.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Is your htaccess file writeable?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure your .htaccess file has <a href=\"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/blog\/how-to-change-file-permissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">file permissions<\/a> of <strong>664\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>Turn off the WAF firewalls:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This might be a security plugin.<\/li>\n<li>Your web server, like mod_security.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/blog\/category\/cloudflare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CloudFlare<\/a> Firewall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hope this helps, if in doubt contact your web hosting provider for support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You getting a post edit error and can&#8217;t save modifications to your post? I have these error message remedies for you: &#8220;The update failed. Invalid in JSON format.&#8221; \u201cPublishing failed and invalid JSON response\u201d &#8220;Seems like there&#8217;s a problem. Give it a few seconds.&#8221; Fix Post Edit Errors Verify the address of the website: Select [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8,45,9,211,7],"class_list":["post-126047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-edit","tag-error","tag-file","tag-post","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136732,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126047\/revisions\/136732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}