psyctc

I am deeply frustrated by reusable blocks. The idea is clearly excellent but my experience, in both 5.7.1 and 5.7.2 is that, at least for what I want to do, that they are fundamentally broken and I suspect that is because the design is fundamentally misconceived. I have a pages that are for chapters of a book and it seemed a brilliant option to create a “navigation block” at the bottom of each that would be table of three columns: previous | book overview | next with small font and different background colour from the rest of the page. I would insert that into the bottom of each page, convert it from reusable to ordinary, add the correct links to “previous” and “next” so that they would jump to the preceding chapter and next chapter. Seemed perfect use for reusable blocks and would save me an hour or two that it would take me to build the table for each page.

What I get is a total mess: generally WP isn’t offering the option to convert to ordinary block, if you want to manage reusable blocks you lose changes in your page. I suspect some of the problems may be corner cases of using a table in a reusable block but surely we need blocks as a full heading on the dashboard menu so we can edit reusable blocks and manage them quite separately from the pages and the saving of pages and of their reusable blocks needs to be rewritten so that it correctly separates the two quite distinct saves. Surely at that point it would be wise to prompt “If you save this block it will update all other uses of it: maybe you want to convert it to an ordinary block?” and offer a Y/N option there. That would have saved me hours of mess.

This seems quite bizarre to me. So when the plugin offers ““Replace the file, use new file name and update all links” it doesn’t mean it? It means “I will wipe the old file, replacing it with the new name and I really, really WON’T update all links, in fact I won’t update any old links at all so they’ll all be broken so you probably really don’t want to do this”. Or it might say “I will wipe the old file, replacing it with the new name and I really, really WON’T update all links, in fact I won’t update any old links at all so they’ll all be broken so you probably really don’t want to do this unless you’re happy adding an .htaccess redirect rule to your site.” I will probably stay with the plugin but I think you need to change this and I’m very, very glad I experimented with a file I no longer needed in a sandbox site and didn’t just take that message at its face value!

2.1.5

So it’s the bar on TOP of the block you are talking about. Even if “sidebar” is the official name for that, which I don’t think is the case, I will not be the only person looking at the sides for this. Then you say:

“In your screenshot, you can see a link icon in the bar. Click on that and choose

Media file

. https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7h1c0llh0bmq9i/Selection_049_for_featherlight.jpg?dl=0″
What on earth is that link there for? If I just select “Media file” I agree it works.

I’m not convinced that an issue that cripples the end user experience is “resolved” either if it’s caused by the inescapable host system, here WordPress, or if it has a solution but that solution is so poorly explained that the end user can’t use it without coming back to you. Ah well, pity, I liked featherlight a great deal, perhaps I still do. However, it gets a one star rating now. Software quality is as much about support as about unexplained functionality. This may be a free plugin, so I agree I take my chances, but it looks as if you ought to be making enough from the extensions to be able to sort out good support.

I’ve read that link and your reply and it doesn’t help me. I see no

Link Settings

in the sidebar, see https://staging.coresystemtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Selection_049_for_featherlight.png. I’m sorry if I’m being blind or stupid but I really have searched around and couldn’t find anything and I’m sure I’d read that earlier post which hadn’t helped. Can you link to a screenshot showing me what I should be seeing or tell me more about how to find it?

By the way, surely it was a bit premature to mark this “resolved”?

Nikola. I have repeatedly told you what is wrong by Email and you’re not fixing it. The plugin should use the time zone of the calendar, it is causing people to get ics confirmations an hour out from the actual time. I have even told you things you could do to fix it. Please do so.