spaceboy909

Oh, I just thought of one other strange thing that is new with this version of WP:

4) Sometimes when I have copied multiple blocks, and then I paste them onto another page, it will double paste it, except, the 2nd paste will be missing just a little bit, like the last few blocks or so.

So, there will be one full copy pasted, and then a 95% copy pasted. I then have to either try using Ctrl Z (doesn’t always work) or just manually remove the extra. It’s bizarre. At first I thought I had accidentally double clicked the paste key, but it happens maybe, 1/3rd of the time, maybe a little more.

Update: Ok, after more playing around I have made a bit of progress. I do not fully understand what is going on, but, I was able to make a good multi block copy this time.

There seem to be two issues related to this:

1) For an unknown reason, a multi block section started highlighting together when a single block was selected. Then a 2nd, such that any time I clicked inside of one set, the entire set was highlighted with a blue triangle. I have never seen this before. The same for the 2nd set.

This would seem to be related to the this “new feature/bug” of auto copying text from one block to the other. Perhaps I misclicked something somewhere and turned this feature on. This isn’t something I can see myself needing but I could imagine others might find it useful.

I haven’t figured out how to undo this easily, although simply deleting all the blocks worked.

2) In one copy and past operation, I was up against a set of columns, although for some reason this was not apparent like it usually is, and it was trying to copy part, but not all, of a column set. Normally this is easy to avoid, I never have this issue & I do tons of column copying. But with the changes to the column / embed system, I inadvertently tried to copy part of a column set and it wouldn’t allow this, thus the copy function failed.

Once I realized this and kept the end of the copy section outside of the columns, it succeeded. FTR, I am still able to copy columns. The problem here was that it was trying to copy on part of a column set, i.e., one column out of three, and there was no indicator that I was inside the column set.

FTR, for anyone else running into this, keep an eye out for the short division bars vs. the long ones. If you’re using 2 or more columns, this will help you know when you’re outside the column set. If you’re only using one column, then you’ll need to look for a double bar, or just go up to master column control bar, highlight the whole column(set), and then look to see where the bottom of it is and start your block copy after that line.

/sigh I hope all this info helps someone else who may be as frustrated as I am. I just wanted to edit my page today, and instead I’ve spent hours troubleshooting.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by spaceboy909.

Update: Sporadic fix found. What has happened is that for whatever reason, they changed the area you can click on to select the embedded content or an individual cell within a column.

They changed it from any part of the text or surrounding area (not picture and not title), to now it is just a very slim height bar underneath the cell. It is super slim, literally 1/8 of an inch on my screen/res. at most.

However, I have tested this with many different embeds I have and it does not work with all of them. It is hard to click the right spot, and even when you do, sometimes it highlights the embed but then still shows the incorrect edit bar for another cell in the column block (if you’re using columns).

It’s erratic. So, finding this will help some of the time, and for the rest, I’ll still have to edit the code, and for the column block, you cannot select “edit as html”. You have to go into the full code viewer, which takes more time because then you have to hunt down the right code section within a sea of code, or use Ctrl F to find the text.

I had been clicking all over the text area which is where I used to click, it was quick, easy and made sense, and that no longer triggers the edit bar.

I don’t know why they made that change. It seems unnecessary and unhelpful. All it will do for me is waste extra seconds of my time trying to click the right spot & and then some of the time having to go into code mode. Fortunately for me, I don’t do a lot of link editing. Usually I get what I need the first time.

If this is a bug, then it needs addressing, but whether it is a bug or not, and assuming many others are affected, then there should be an announcement made about the change/bug so that people understand how to highlight the embed from now on. The old way is obviously vastly superior to this new added hassle.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by spaceboy909. Reason: minor adds

Thanks for the response. I’ve learned a bit more now but unfortunately, I’m just running into more problems.

First, I wasn’t very clear in my OP, it seems what you’re referring to is for the blog aspect of WP, but I don’t really need it for the blog…maybe later on. I need it for a regular web page, like you find under the “pages” section of the admin menu.

It seems that the WP built in pagination function, and that’s the term I discovered that describes what I need, only works for the blog and related pages, but does not work for regular web pages.

I then looked through the plugin section of the admin panel and found several pagination plugins, so I thought I had found what I needed, but unfortunately, all of these plugins only work with blogs and their related pages, but not regular web pages.

I don’t understand this. There are literally a zillion web sites out there with regular, non blog pages, that make use of pagination, but WordPress seems to have no options for this and not one plugin? There must be something!

Anyway, I’m still looking for help on this if anyone has any further ideas. Without an automated feature, I will be stuck with making new pages manually all the time and copying and pasting content all the time. It will be an absolute logistical nightmare to keep up with it. The zillion sites out there that use pagination for their non blog pages must be using some kind of script or plug in, etc.

Any help is appreciated.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by spaceboy909.

Thanks for the response, I will check into that.