New URL popup creates more work

  • While the new popup for adding URLs looks neater, it’s actually meaning more work on our site and slower document creation.

    We use about 90% links to external sites / 10% internal. Every internal one now means having to popup the URL dialogue then click on the “cog” – which removes the usefulness of the keyboard shortcut added in the last update.

    In addition, for external links we prefer to open in an external tab. Prior to v4.5, if we added a link on the page and set it to do so, then each additional link in that session was created in the same manner. It only saved a click but was welcome when adding quite a few links.

    Now we have to CTRL-SHIFT-A, paste, click cog, then click the tick box for every single link.

    In all respects the new system is slower and more open to us making a mistake than the old one. All in exchange for having a smaller dialogue box ??

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  • I too find the new linking method clumsy and more work.

    I can use a plugin to force all links to open in a new tab. But, that seems like overkill and has its own problems.

    Then to add insult to annoyance, the pop up URL editing window persists until I reload the page.

    I’m not a happy camper.

    Yes. Clumsy, slower, inefficient, irritating. It wasn’t broke!

    Very annoying change.
    More work and I really would like the previous way of adding urls back, because all my links to external sites I want to be opened in a new page unless internal links to pages of my own site.

    Please make it undone again WordPress.

    I absolutely HATE this new way we have to add links! It involves an extra step each time AND the darned little gear box stays on TOP of the content I am working on unless I highlight something else, say add link, delete link and then it finally disappears!

    Has ANYONE figured out how to go back to the easier version???
    Wordpress are you listening?

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