Blue border around paragraph, cannot edit

  • pressnine

    (@pressnine)


    5 years, 5 months ago

    In wp-admin, since 5.6 or before, I sometimes get a blue border around a paragraph (block) which means I cannot edit it. I have searched Google and options/prefs within wp-admin but can find no way to toggle this off. Why does it even exist?

    The only solution I’ve found is to change to code editor and then back to visual editor, when the blue line disappears and I can again edit text. Another obstacle to daily productivity that didn’t seem to be in earlier versions (I’ve been using WP for 2 years). Is this a bug or just a feature of some of my pasted copy? I am using latest edition of Safari and MacOS, if that’s at all relevant…

    Thanks
    MG

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  • Thread Starter pressnine

    (@pressnine)

    5 years, 5 months ago

    Further to this, how to highlight and copy text across para blocks in WP (say for external editing to send to a write for approval/edit. If I left-click mouse and highlight text in one para and part of the following para I cannot copy it. The two paras simply acquire a blue outline in their entirety and are uncopiable (not that I want in this case to copy whole of two paras, only parts).

    WP doesn’t seem to work so well as an editing tool for publishers as before, if you know what I mean. Unless all this can turned off. Don’t particularly want to go back to the old tech of classic edit but the new tech seems to not be particularly set up for word/text editors.

    Thanks
    MG

    Thread Starter pressnine

    (@pressnine)

    5 years, 5 months ago

    Right now, I’m trying to copy 4 paras to send to a writer for approval. But the only way seems to be to copy first para as text from inside the para, paste it into an email, go back to wp-admin for para 2, etc etc… Incredibly laborious and time-consuming. I’m not sure WP designers are thinking about productivity. Unless I’m missing something or WP doesn’t like Safari or something. I haven’t tried it in Firefox, for example.

    Thread Starter pressnine

    (@pressnine)

    5 years, 5 months ago

    Anybody got any solution to this and other Qs I asked or have I had my allotted help for a while?

    Thanks

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