Gutenberg editing issues

  • Resolved beggers

    (@beggers)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    There are many things I love about Gutenberg but a few things that really frustrate me.

    Something that happens fairly often is that when I’m editing a long article and I click on a paragraph to edit, Gutenberg zooms me to a totally different part of the article. I have lost data because of this because I’m expecting to start typing where I clicked and I sometimes end up screwing up another part of the article (and ending up with the dreaded message about the block crashing (I forgot the syntax). When that happens you can’t Ctrl-Z back.

    Then sometimes I click near the bottom of an image or into the caption itself and Gutenberg instantly brings the entire image on screen – and pushes the caption field off the bottom of the screen.

    Please stop this automatic mouse movement. I really don’t want Gutenberg to think.

    When I cut & paste some text that contains a table, it doesn’t have the same left margin so I click to edit HTML and remove the table code. As soon as I take out the top few table settings, Gutenberg says it’s an error. Just a minute ago I got stuck in HTML mode and couldn’t get out.

    Finally, I can’t figure out how to insert a video between paragraphs. If I use Insert Before it inserts a new block at the top of the article.

    I spent an hour just now trying to post a simple article and it got so messed up I just trashed the damn thing. Sorry to complain but please help!

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Support Paal Joachim Romdahl

    (@paaljoachim)

    Hi Bryan

    It sucks when something is not working correctly.
    I am wondering if some plugins or the theme you are using is causing some trouble. You could deactivate the plugins and see if the problem remains. Then switch themes to one of the default Twenty something themes and see if that works.

    It would be very helpful if you could fill out a bug report on Github so we can get more information on what is going on:
    https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/new?template=Bug_report.md

    Good luck! I hope you get the AHA moment as you realize what is going on.

    Plugin Support Paal Joachim Romdahl

    (@paaljoachim)

    Btw Bryan

    When filling out a bug report actually any report for any software it is important to include as much clear information as possible. That would likely mean adding screenshots with steps mentioning what is going on. An animated gif to show what is going on. If there is lack of information then the person responding does not understand what is going on, and will ask for more info. That is now happening on the bug report you filled out on Github. It needs detailed information from you to be able to move on with the issue. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/20931

    Here is an example of filling out a bug report which I did yesterday:
    https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/20942

    Clear step by step with screenshots what is going on.

    Plugin Support Paal Joachim Romdahl

    (@paaljoachim)

    Let us know how things are going. Hopefully a few things will be fixed in version 7.8.

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