jefflawton

OK I don’t really care for its format, I had a great deal more control of THAT in the original Libre Office Writer, but since there just isn’t any support of the .docx -> HTML (via Mammoth) “anchor links” premise any more, I “caved in”, went over to the dark side and am using “Easy TOC”, because outside of the 3 common plugins it’s just not possible to make anything else work anymore…

Also all the links that I “try to fix” as normal anchor links result in no motion and are reported by Broken Link Checker as broken, but the ones that only force me (and my viewers) into edit mode according to BLC are all FINE. Isn’t that, uh, just about totally backwards, or doesn’t anyone else think so??

FWIW when I manually edit both the link and the target header I look in the lower left corner and as I hover over the link I see the site URL and a slash followed directly by the tag name, but clicking on the link creates no motion or indication at all, I don’t know what’s missing!

I’m reading as much about this as I can, with the help of Google Search. It’s well-known that in some circumstances JavaScript routines (particularly those using jQuery) have been known to break anchor links (usually trying to make smooth scroll work), and SOMETIMES these are invoked from inside various themes. My default theme was “Hello Elementor” (no I wasn’t using Elementor itself), but I’ve tried a few of the “Twenty” themes and no luck yet. My “block stack” is pretty sparse, I just have a cover block into which I “poured” (copy/pasted) the output of Mammoth and it created a bunch of blocks for paragraphs and headings and a few lists, I didn’t precede all that with a “columns” block because it didn’t seem necessary. My plugins are also pretty minimal, it’s the current versions of coming soon page, duplicate page, Jetpack, Mammoth, WPTouch and 3 Siteground plugins. Isn’t there some fairly simple way to at least figure out what broke the actual anchor links, which I would have fairly quickly edited back in if they had been working, and not bother trying to figure out where the “edit mode” stuff came from? It doesn’t seem like trying to make URLs work as page links is likely to work if the pages aren’t actually present in the file structure, but maybe that makes sense to someone who understands the whole picture better than I do.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by jefflawton.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by jefflawton.

I’m really confused now, “anchor links” (strictly internal) as documented SHOULD work but for some reason they don’t, please does anyone know why that is? Also if you just wanted to “link” to the actual page with a full URL OUTSIDE OF edit mode you can’t actually do that directly, since the individual pages aren’t really part of the file structure, they’re really sitting INSIDE the database…now there MIGHT be a “stunt” that would make that work but I certainly don’t know what that stunt is…I even put in the plugin “Broken link checker” and it says all these “edit mode” links are just FINE mode 200 links, but they’re actually USELESS if you’re not an admin! I guess there’s supposed to be a way to delete my links and recreate them, but I think that just recreates the “edit mode” links all over again, and I can’t seem to identify the editing mode that’s supposed to recreate the “make a full URL anchor link” solution CORRECTLY…am I REALLY the only person having this problem??

In other words at the heart of all this is, am I expected to “fix” all these “edit mode” links MANUALLY and not simply recreate them, or is it that this OUGHT to work but somehow I’ve done something that’s “activating this bug” and there’s a need to fix THAT? Please give this a bit of thought, I’m trying everything I can find and so far I am finding no practical solution at all for fixing on-page links, thank you!!

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by jefflawton.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by jefflawton.

OK let me reconsider my previous post, there’s a pile of Github bug reports about the Gutenberg editor and regex bugs, apparently it “feels obligated to” convert internal HTML anchor links to full-throated URLs, which would be fine if it didn’t stumble all over the place adding all manner of extra pieces in there about wp-admin, edit mode etc. So I finally figured out how to invoke the HTML-mode editor, and somehow I can’t quite get away just editing them down to simple anchor links, nor can I just “throw away” what look to be the non-essential pieces because edit mode isn’t the same as display. I wind up with the puzzle of figuring out what the exact path for a full URL has to look like and letter-for-letter “getting it right” or all I get for my trouble is “there doesn’t seem to be anything where your link is pointing to”. Can anyone please get me a “cheat sheet” for EXACTLY what the full path of the URL equivalent of a simple anchor link for a particular page in WordPress looks like before I go stark raving crazy here? Thank you!

Sorry not close. I didn’t “edit the links in” from the internal editor. There shouldn’t be a full URL anywhere near anchor links created like that, the link exists inside the file when it’s in .docx and they should (and do) get properly translated into HTML. It’s only when the document is copied into the cover block and made into individual paragraphs and then the document goes online that the URLs for anchor links come into the picture, and I don’t know why or where they are coming from.

And if THAT isn’t practical, is there some way to make the page “pidgin responsive” to screen size by just displaying the individual PDF that corresponds to the current screen’s detected size? Does anyone have tested code to do that?

So if I want parallax with perfect format conversion should I use a plugin for .odt (Docxpresso) or .docx (Mammoth) or something else (?) with AWB (does it matter which block is first in the chain?), or try to just use HTML with an HTML/CSS parallax, or am I somehow running out of memory? I’ll try anything that would work, but obviously either I haven’t found it yet or I’m making some systematic error…or is the theme the wrong one for this combination?…

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by jefflawton.

I think maybe I can “sharpen” my question a little bit, but I’m not sure, there’s so much I don’t understand about the subject…I’m noticing there seem to be limits on the size in pixels of any individual images that are going to be tiled. Under SOME conditions I was able to get some “scrolling” of the INDIVIDUAL image (what I was using for a test was 1008×1000, the limit of the media library is currently set to 1024×1024) but it wasn’t repeating vertically, which was puzzling because I had asked for that to happen. What “limits” am I exceeding? Would turning on some compression help? Where would I find the documentation on “other” pixel or other limits? I also now understand there are also limits enforced under the use of individual themes, how do I figure out what they are or which I ought to gravitate towards given the otherwise seemingly “simple” nature of what I’m trying to do? Thank you for any enlightenment!

I notice the API keys always have the word “live” in them once you’re completely connected, and they said “test” beforehand. I sort of think I need a way to get Stripe to issue those “test” keys for test mode but like I say I can’t seem to get that type of key back, I can’t see anything in the Stripe dashboard to make that happen. Has Stripe abandoned test mode or are they just super good at hiding interface controls?

Never mind, SiteGround fixed the second issue, but I’m more anxious than ever about the first!

I have a new problem, after I installed the “User Registration” plugin, after my prior session timed out now I can’t get my WordPress login on /wp-admin any more, I only get the new form, and on that form if I enter my administration account and password it tells me “Sorry that email already exists”. I wasn’t expecting it to take over my regular WordPress login form, now I don’t know how to get in to disable the new form and get the old one back, which is the only way I know to get back admin status!