Preload paths: avoid fatal error on Widgets page. #39470
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Follow-up to #39256
What and why?
#39256 added some logic using the
block_editor_rest_api_preload_paths
filter. That works well, but on a fresh installation of WordPress, that filter may sometimes return multidimensional arrays. This is the case on the Widgets page for example, where the filter's array of paths to preload will be as follows:In this situation, when running a version of the Gutenberg plugin including #39256, we end up with this Fatal error when loading the widgets screen:
How?
Testing Instructions