Two step hyperlinks?

  • At some point since the beginning of the year WP Edit added an extra click to add hyperlinks.

    In the current version a user clicks Insert/edit Link, and a small box pops up with a text box (for the link address), an Apply button, and a Link options button. Since I need to scroll through my list of previous entries to find the post I want to link to, I click on the Link options button, and then get the original hyperlink box, which gives the option to either enter a hyperlink or scroll through previous posts.

    Since the original box also enabled the user to enter a hyperlink and apply it with a single click, I am wondering why we now have this new method with the minimal function text box. It has added nothing useful, but made it a little slower to get to the list of previous posts.

    What is it I’m missing? What is the problem that the new method solves? Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Josh

    (@josh401)

    Hello,

    I am very sorry for my delay. I believe this is something relating to the default “insert/edit link” button; that is provided within WordPress. Or, are you referring to the “insert/edit advanced link” button?

    I’m not sure. When you click on the button in the red circle it opens up the link control in the green circle.

    In the past clicking on the button in the red circle just opened up the link control panel

    Now, people have to click the red, scroll to the green and then scroll back to the top to complete the link.

    Sometimes when text is highlighted before clicking the button in the red circle, it defaults to open a new link.

    If you highlight the text, click red link, then enter a link in the box next to the green and hit enter, the link is created without the open new link box checked.

    Wordpress link functions

    Thread Starter bentonian

    (@bentonian)

    gjberber seems to have the same concern that I do.

    There is now an extra step to get to the link control panel. And there is nothing in the new, abbreviated ‘panel’ that you can’t do in the link panel.

    In other words, we now have an extra click, with no extra functionality.

    Unless, of course, I am missing something, which happens with alarming frequency.

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