All links disabled whilst in edit mode

That’s intentional. ?? I’d probably be good to show a message or something.

Hi Janneke,

I’d probably be good to show a message or something.

Not sure I follow?

I mean, if someone clicks a link, to show a message that fades out saying they have to leave edit mode first. Anyway, I think in the future links will be accessible, but there will be an warning before leaving the page.

Right, I see!

I suppose it is better to have inaccessible links than a user loosing the changes they’ve made after navigating away from the page. Perhaps this is where autosave (I noticed it’s on the roadmap) comes in?

Alternatively, perhaps grey-out uneditable areas – making it explicit to the user what they can and can’t do on the page whilst in edit mode.

Just throwing out some suggestions.

In the future it will definitely autosave to the server and browser, just like in the back-end. Still, there should be a warning on leaving the page. We don’t want users to think they lost their changes, even though they didn’t.

Yeah, we discussed that too, but it’s difficult to match the theme’s colour scheme.

but it’s difficult to match the theme’s colour scheme.

Perhaps an overlay using CSS opacity would solve that issue. Something like opacity: 0.5; on all uneditable and inaccessible areas of the page and opacity: 1; on the editable regions and admin bar.

You still have to choose the colour of the overlay… Black over a white theme would be ugly. And white over a black theme too.

I just did a mock up of both scenarios (black over white and white over back) and yes, you’re right! Both scenarios look V ugly ??

?? I didn’t have to test that to know. The only thing that could work is blurring the background.

That could work but thinking about it again – doing anything at all to the background of the edit page deviates from what makes the plugin so powerful – that being the edit-post-page and the post-page being identical to the user so they can see exactly what their blog post will look like once published.

I think your original idea could be best – display a warning if the user tries to navigate away from the edit page before saving.

Ticket: https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/2120