Inline Links

Hi there!

Thanks for your feedback. There has been some discussion on this feature, but there’s no plan to remove it or add an option to remove it at this time. (See our Philosophy on Decisions, not Options.)

Could you post a step-by-step process of what you type and click on, that causes the link to be removed? That certainly sounds like a bug which we’d like to get fixed up.

Hi there!

May I please PLEASE add my pledge to remove that Inline Links thingy?
There are no options to put the link in a new window, so you have – like we always did WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM – to go on top of the editor and open the link-icon. Extra clicks and extra annoyment, for that thingy sticks to the linked name, even when you want to do something else.

I do not understand why that thingy is important nor what good it might do. It only takes precious time.
Also when you want to drag and drop images with links, the links don’t move with them, all the code in the HTMLtab is messed up!

Apart from these two flaws, a big thank for the whole of the WordPress system!! ??

Best wishes from Magda in Amsterdam

Hi @magdigit!

You can also get to the advanced link options by clicking on the Edit button in the Inline Link popup, then clicking the gear icon. If you prefer keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl+K (Windows) or Cmd+K (OSX) will edit the link, then you can tab to the gear icon and press Enter to open the advanced link options.

While I understand that adding the new window option to your links is part of your editing process, I’d also encourage you to reconsider that process – it reduces the usability of your site for your readers.

With regards to the bug you’ve observed where links don’t move when an image with links is drag/dropped, could you post the steps you use to insert the image, add the link, then drag and drop it? Also, what browser are you using? I wasn’t able to reproduce this behaviour in my testing.

Hi @gary Pendergast!

Thank you for your swift answer!! As I have just a simple childrens story site, I never thought too deeply about the ethics on to how to open links in general.

For internal links indeed the inline links option is allright!
But when I refer to pages outside my site, I let them open with blank target.
Then the Inline Links is just one step too much, and an annoying one since it sticks like magnetic on the selected text/image.
But your linked info tells me more about the ethics, and I acknowledge that now! The link in that info to wikipedia-outsidelinking-icons puzzled me, for there was no information how to make that ‘outside(blank target)’ icon.

By the way: Excuse me for my bad WPtechnical English. ??

As for the problems with moving images (with links) around:
the HTML-editor always messes up the codes.
With each linked-image the correct code should be (example):

“
<img class=”alignnone wp-image-13181″
src=”https://booxalive.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/winkelpret-03-243×300.png&#8221;
alt=”winkelpret, winkelen met papa, peuterverhaaltje, groep 1 – 2 – 3, fantasie in supermarkt,
online voorlezen” width=”139″ height=”171″ />

And the href is always messed up when another linked image comes to join. Then the new image automatically takes the href from the existing one.

So I’ve put this correct example of code in a doc., and by hand in the html-editor I have to control all the images and put the right href’s in the right images (while I am not a code-oldie at all), a lot of work!

Maybe it’s better to understand when you see one of my pages where a lot of switching is done (new stories will be added, sometimes I change the order of all the images: https://booxalive.nl/midi/

I had this problem before and had contact about that with some friendly developers. It seemed they fixed that for a while. But with the introduction of the (horrible – to me) inline links this problem is back again…

I hope you have enough info about my problem, dear Gary!

Best wishes, Magda