Ross Lampert

Thanks, Peter. That definitely helped my host’s Tier 2 techs solve the problem! Whew!

That did it! The code didn’t like “name” at all: “invalid content” or some such error.

Now, about making that insertion a more user-friendly process…. ?? Hope I’ll see that in a future update. I know it’s a tool I’ll be using.

Thanks!

Tried that, doesn’t seem to be working.

Using your example but with “more” instead of “whatever”, I tried changing <p>text here</p> to <p name=”more”>text here</p>. The code insisted on adding second start and end paragraph code: <p><p name=”more”>text here</p></p>. That didn’t mess up the paragraph structure but the anchor didn’t work when I tried to link to it from another location using the URL.

The outbound link is https://www.rossblampert.com/2019/01/30/give-it-up-part-3/#more and the anchor is supposed to be located at the beginning of the paragraph beginning with “I know,” (quotes included). The link instead takes the reader to the top of the post. What am I doing wrong?

As an aside, it sure would be nice if we could insert these anchors without having to get into the code. Improvement candidate?

I’m using “bookmark” to mean a reference point that’s ordinarily invisible to the reader but which I can build a hyperlink to.

For example, if I had a blog post called “My Blog Post” on a web site called “www.mywebsite.com,” and I wanted readers to be able to come into it at a certain point from an e-mail I’d sent them, I would create a bookmark at that point, which I’d call “resume_here.” The e-mail would end with text that might look something like, “To read the rest of this post, click here.” The URL for that “click here” link would be “https://www.mywebsite.com/my-blog-post/#resume_here.&#8221;

In the blog post, I’d insert that invisible-to-the-reader target URL for the hyperlink in the e-mail. That target is the bookmark.

This is the way these things usually work, but when I tried it in WP5’s Gutenberg editor, it didn’t.

What did I miss? Please don’t tell me Gutenberg doesn’t allow this kind of bookmarking! The legacy editor did.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by Ross Lampert.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by Ross Lampert.

Hi, Dave. Sorry, I got wrapped up in other things. I did look for php.ini and never found it but forgot to look for .user.ini. In any case, I contacted my host’s tech support folks, and they were able to replicate the problem. It appears to be fixed but they did not tell me exactly what they did.

I say “appears to be fixed” because Wordfence then tried to limit my access to the site, even as a non-logged-in visitor. I’ve whitelisted a couple of IP addresses and that appears to have solved that problem, but I haven’t checked it again today to confirm it.

In any case, I do have access to my theme again, and the site looks more like what it should, so at least we’ve made that much progress.