# Unable to add blocks in visual editor

**URL:** <https://forum.builder.io/t/unable-to-add-blocks-in-visual-editor/2482>\
**Category:** Visual Editor Help\
**Tags:** visual-editor\
**Created:** [August 12, 2022, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/unable-to-add-blocks-in-visual-editor/2482 "2022-08-12T12:35:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![edward-simpson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.builder.io/edward-simpson/32/1894_2.png) [@edward-simpson](https://forum.builder.io/u/edward-simpson)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/unable-to-add-blocks-in-visual-editor/2482/1 "2022-08-12T12:35:26Z")

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I’m building out a site but in the visual editor the ‘add blocks’ section doesn’t always appear where the BuilderComponent should be. There’s some errors in the JS console relating to fetching from firebase, is this the cause or is it more likely to be something in my code?

Building in gatsby with some custom components, but the site works outside of [builder.io](http://builder.io).

Currently the site is running locally as we haven’t set up hosting yet

 ![Screenshot 2022-08-12 at 13.29.21](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/builder/original/2X/4/4130c468b81033c5c07c70e3ef4bd3f14b25180f.png)

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**Author:** ![ancheetah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.builder.io/ancheetah/32/751_2.png) [@ancheetah](https://forum.builder.io/u/ancheetah)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/unable-to-add-blocks-in-visual-editor/2482/2 "2022-08-15T22:35:55Z")

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Hi @edward-simpson welcome to the forum! It’s difficult to investigate while your site is still running locally. Is this happening randomly or are there any steps to reproduce? If you share your API key I can also try to see if anything stands out in our logs. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![edward-simpson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.builder.io/edward-simpson/32/1894_2.png) [@edward-simpson](https://forum.builder.io/u/edward-simpson)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/unable-to-add-blocks-in-visual-editor/2482/3 "2022-09-20T08:34:57Z")

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Hi,

It ended up resolving itself and I can’t for the life of me figure out what exactly did it! Do you know why all my posts have suddenly been marked as spam?!

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**Author:** ![ancheetah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.builder.io/ancheetah/32/751_2.png) [@ancheetah](https://forum.builder.io/u/ancheetah)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/unable-to-add-blocks-in-visual-editor/2482/4 "2022-09-21T16:41:56Z")

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Hi @edward-simpson , our forum has a flag for when a new user tries to create too many posts with links to the same domain ([Builder.io](http://Builder.io) in your case). I’ve increased the threshold a bit but if this happens again we’ll review your posts so it doesn’t get flagged as spam!

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**Author:** ![meelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@meelie](https://forum.builder.io/u/meelie)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/unable-to-add-blocks-in-visual-editor/2482/5 "2023-07-18T14:10:42Z")

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I am also unable to add blocks to the visual editor. Originally, I got a similar error as above. But now I get

```auto
Uncaught (in promise) Could not evaluate in iframe, doesnt exist!

```