Title: Editor issues when embedding files
Last modified: August 26, 2026

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# Editor issues when embedding files

 *  [szponix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/szponix/)
 * (@szponix)
 * [1 week, 2 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editor-issues-when-embedding-files/)
 * Hi,
 * I use Shared Files and on some pages of my site I embed single files with either
   shortcode (example: [shared_files file_id=22464]) or just the Shared Files block.
   Recently I noticed that if single file is embedded and you edit the page, the
   error is returned when you want to save the changes. My WordPress admin is in
   Polish, but I believe that in English the error message would be something like:“
   Update failed. The response is not a valid JSON response”.
 * Funnily, the changes seem to be saved either way. This only happens when Shared
   Files shortcode or block is used. When I remove those, page updates are saved
   without any issue.
 * I think this is a bug introduced in one the newer versions, since I don’t remember
   this happening a couple of months back.
 * Let me know if you need more information 😉

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