Option to remove email tooltip in editor

  • Resolved digitalsmithy

    (@digitalsmithy)


    2 years, 3 months ago

    There’s a prompt that pops up when you type an @… which tries to put the users email on the page.

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    Seriously? How long is it since a WP dev actually built a client site? Have they completely lost touch with how it’s used in the wild?
    I can’t click most of the context menu, and end up clicking all over the place to get rid of this stupid prompt. It often obscures things and won’t disappear. It cannot be dismissed or suppressed. If I back-space onto a link with an email, and then press enter to make a new line – the tooltip has stolen focus and so replaces the email and link with my login email and username. I have to edit it all over again.
    It’s the most stupid thing – and means clients will be accidentally adding private emails to pages because they don’t realise they’ve clicked this.
    How can I remove YET ANOTHER unwanted feature – a filter / function to add to the 20 I now need on every site to remove bloat… or a plain old hack – tell me the JS function/file at play here – I don’t care, I just want this gone.

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  • Your screenshot looks like a plugin based on the block icons you are using here (the blue H as well as the icon in the field you marked with an arrow).

    Without any plugins you get a list of users in the current WordPress installation to choose from. It looks different than in your screenshot. If you want to get rid of that, you can try this plugin here: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/remove-user-autocomplete-from-block-editor/ – if it works for you I can’t judge, because your screenshot looks a bit different and points to the function of another plugin.

    Thread Starter digitalsmithy

    (@digitalsmithy)

    @threadi – Thank you. Damn, and I just needed the right search (which I did try, many times).
    Yes, my screenshot includes a couple of custom blocks, but the issue is vanilla WP, no plugins default theme – I’ve tried it.
    Sorry for the ratty post, this thing has bugged me for ages, thanks again for the link…

    Just to add… I have sites where there are hundreds of users… and editors can edit pages but are legally not allowed access to other users information… but here they get a list of emails – in the editor… thanks to an unannounced feature and there’s no way to switch it off… Someones great idea is now other people’s disaster… When is there going to be a control-panel/settings page where all this garbage can be switched off?
    I’m still ratty it seems…

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by digitalsmithy.
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