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I contacted Genesis. They got back to me and are working on distinguishing their blocks. Of the options they are considering, I said I would prefer a prefix on each of their block names, like “Gen Button”.

I definitely think the clarity of a prefix in front of every Genesis block is best, like GEN Button

Good idea. I have done it. Thanks again.

I am not alone in this confusion see
https://wptavern.com/wordpress-plugin-authors-should-avoid-confusing-users-when-naming-blocks

I am still mixing up the button and the buttons blocks. I wish Genesis blocks called their block “genesis button” or “genesis buttons” whichever it is.
I can work this out.

My apologies.

I did not realise that I was using the “genesis blocks” “Buttons” block. This has the “link rel” box in which I erroneously put my URL.

The WordPress “Button” block does not have a “link rel” box and is straight forward to use.

Beware the differance betwen the “Button” Block and the “Buttons” block. The “buttons” block can have several buttons on the one line.

Resolved

Thanks. That’s clear the href contins the URL.
Can I leave the “link rel” blank, or leave WordPress to include something in “link rel”, when I include a link to a URL of:
. another page on my own site, or
. a page on another web site

I had another look at the page on “link rel” suggested above
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_link_rel.asp
It has so much information – but did not mention “noopener” and “noreferrer”

the below link does
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/what-is-relnoopener-in-wordpress-explained/

To @prabhatrai – Thanks for your help

I have got the button block working now.
I wanted my button to open another page on my site, my-URL = https://my-site/my-page2.

Here is what worked for me: When I am editing my page in the block editor and click on the button, a box opens above the block with 9 icons, one of which is the link icon. When I enter my-URL here, the button works.

Here is what did not work for me: When I am editing my page and click on the button, I see in the right column details about the button block including, under “Link settings”, “Link rel” and a box for “Link rel” data. When I put my-URL in this “Link rel” box the button does not work.

Perhaps there should be a warning near the “Link rel box” saying that this is not the spot for a URL

How strange. I am trying to use the WordPress button block and it is not working. I’ll just use an ordinary hyperlink.

I am using the theme “Atomic blocks”. I was also using the “atomic blocks plugin” (which gives extra blocks) until this week when the plugin creators changed it to “genesis blocks”. My first guess is that “genesis blocks” is interfering with the WordPress button block. If I deactivate genesis blocks, I take down several of my pages which use one of their blocks. If I deactivate “genesis blocks” and try the WordPress button again, can I then re-activate “genesis blocks” without breaking my site? I think that is a difficult question. apologies. I worry that I’ll break something if I start disabling plugins etc. My real concern is that if the button block is now broken, other WordPress features will also be broken. I do not have the time or skill to work this out.
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I read the article you suggested. My button tries to link to another page on my site. I wanted it to open in a new tab because I want the viewer to return to the page with the button. The article suggests that this might work for computers but not for mobiles.

I put a button onto my home page. It does not work, in the same way as I’ve described previously.
https://www.feedbackreigns.net/

The button is blue about the sixth block on the page.
Button: See Australia as a renewable energy superpower.

I added the button below an ordinary hyperlink which links to the same page as the button. The hyperlink works fine.

Thanks for your response @prabhatrai

You can easily move blocks around within an accordion block but getting them out of the accordion block is hard.
What I ended up doing was:
. open my page to view the old profile block that is outside the accordion block.
. open a separate window to edit the page.
. display one of these pages on the left of my screen and the other on the right.
. create a new profile block inside the accordion block.
. separately copy each line of the old profile block into the new profile block.
. delete the old profile block
This was a painful process. Is there a better way to do it.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by persist9.

Extra information: A lot of the blocks that I want to move into an “accordion block” are atomic blocks “profile blocks”.

I just added the extra CSS and it is working. I’ll try removing the previous CSS to see if it still works – so I do not repeat CSS instructions unnecessarily. Thanks. Fixed.