Getting help and creating hyperlinks

1) I click on the link icon, just like before, and need the list of created pages to choose the one to link to. How do I do this?

I tested this and found that you can search for post names within the field in the floating toolbar but it does not yet offer a way to search for pages. I found that there is work in progress to address that and I added a comment to the issue at https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/2084 saying that it came up here. In the mean time, opening the page and copying the url so you can paste it into the link toolbar is the best temporary workaround I can think of.

2) Is there any sort of documentation on how to use this? I’ve found a lot on how to code it. I don’t want to code it, just use it.

In general, Gutenberg breaks content down into smaller pieces that can each have relatively important settings and controls either just above the block (the area you are currently editing) or in the block settings sidebar on the right (accessible via the gear icon in the top toolbar.

To add a new block, you can click the (+) icon or just continue to type normally or drag media into the content area normally just like you have in the past.

I searched Google for “how to use Gutenberg” and this article was in the top results: https://www.shoutmeloud.com/tutorial-use-wordpress-gutenberg-editor.html It looks like it has some good basics, including screenshots, which may help you.

If you still have questions after reading the article or if you find something doesn’t work the way you expected, leave another comment here and someone should be able to help you take a closer look!

I looked at the how to use guide you found for me – thanks for finding it. One more thing I can’t figure out how to do – link an image. I want to have a small image on the page linked to a larger image that will open in a new page. No way I can find to do this either. I was really ready to use this, now I’m heading for being ready to deactivate the plugin. Not only am I trying to get pages laid out, I’m trying to learn a new interface that I’m not finding is intuitive.

Thanks for all your help – I appreciate your time.

Hi,

For your image linking question, when you have an image selected, the right hand settings panel has a “Link to” option which will allow you to do what you are looking for.

I don’t know if this is still open. I’ve figured out most of this and have another question. In the Image block, is there a way to open in a new window? If I go to html and add target=”_blank”, then when I update, it makes me change the Image block into an html block, or it won’t keep that change. So now in the visual editor, I can’t see the images anymore, just the code. Thanks.

Hi,

Unfortunately not, and I can with relative certainty say we won’t add that to WordPress it self (I’m sure there will be plugins that introduce this behavior though).

The reason for this is that opening things in new windows is a bad experience when accessibility is taken into consideration, and WordPress as a project strives to ensure everyone on the web has a good time, and that means making such decisions on behalf of everyone, yet letting them do things “the manual way” if they wish to fully control everything.