Many of you know that I switched to the Block Editor fairly early in the plesase-move-to-the-Block-Editor campaign waged by WordPress. I did NOT enjoy the transition, but I do like the Block Editor better than the Classic Editor. There are more ways to add more things, and generally, things work better.
I still use a Classic Block (a way of including the Classic Editor inside a Block Editor post) for my photo galleries, because none of the Block galleries work as well – in my opinion.
One of my regular posts is the Sunday Recap of Thursday Doors. This post is a table of URLs and other information collected from the participants of the previous Thursday Doors challenge. The post looks complicated, but it’s assembled automatically by a small computer program, along with the help of Microsoft Excel. The table you see each Sunday, is created by Excel – I simply copy and paste it into a block on the Recap Page.
That is, I used to. A few weeks ago, that process stopped working. Excel would create the table. I would copy. I would paste. But there were no URLs – the text was there, but there was no link.
For two weeks, while Happiness Engineers tried to help, I had to manually add the links to the entries in the Recap table. I have to tell, that process would prove untenable. It simply takes too much time.
The problem is that the behavior on which I was relying was never designed as a feature of WordPress. Accordingly, although something I used stopped working, it was not a bug!
Finally, after working with a variety of engineers – all of whom seemed willing to help – one guy came up with an answer:
“If you paste your data into a Classic Block, it will create the table and you can turn that into a Block Editor block and it will look the way you want.”
This post is part of Linda G. Hill’s fun weekly series One-Liner Wednesday. If you have a one-liner, and would like to join in on the fun, you can follow this link to participate and to see the one-liners from the other participants.
All five of my current books are now available in audio book form thanks to Amazon KDP’s Virtual Voice process. The voice is AI generated, but I can honestly say, it’s pretty darn good. The audio books are reasonably priced (all below $7 US) and, if you already own the Kindle version and want to add an audio version, you can do that for $1.99. There is a five-minute sample on the book page for each book. If you’re interested, click on any of the Dreamer’s Alliance book links below the image or on the link below for my latest book.
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