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Enhancement: Restore 'Open in New Tab' or Advanced Options to Link Editor for pages and posts #79239

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mxhassani opened this issue Jul 11, 2023 · 11 comments
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Customer Report Issues or PRs that were reported via Happiness. Previously known as "Happiness Request". [Feature] Post/Page Editor The editor for editing posts and pages. [Platform] Atomic [Platform] Simple [Pri] Normal [Status] Core Fix Needed A fix within the Core WordPress or Gutenberg project is required to resolve this issue. Triaged To be used when issues have been triaged. [Type] Feature Request Feature requests User Report This issue was created following a WordPress customer report

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@mxhassani
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mxhassani commented Jul 11, 2023

Quick summary

Currently, when adding a link that opens in a new to the content of a page, you need to:

  1. Add the link
  2. Confirm
  3. Click edit
  4. Advanced
  5. Check "Open New Tab"
  6. Save

Adding the link:
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Editing the link:
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Steps to reproduce

Add a link that opens in a new tab in Guttenberg.

What you expected to happen

  1. To have the option to open link in a new tab right when adding the link and not only on the edit screen.
  2. To not have the open in a new tab checkbox hidden behind the Advanced menu

What actually happened

The process seemed overcomplicated for what it does.

Impact

Most (> 50%)

Available workarounds?

No and the platform is unusable

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

Simple, Atomic

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@mxhassani mxhassani added [Type] Bug [Feature] Post/Page Editor The editor for editing posts and pages. User Report This issue was created following a WordPress customer report Needs triage Ticket needs to be triaged labels Jul 11, 2023
@github-actions github-actions bot added [Status] Priority Review Triggered Quality squad has been notified of this issue in #dotcom-triage-alerts [Platform] Atomic [Platform] Simple [Pri] BLOCKER labels Jul 11, 2023
@karenroldan karenroldan added [Pri] Low [Type] Feature Request Feature requests and removed [Type] Bug [Pri] BLOCKER [Status] Priority Review Triggered Quality squad has been notified of this issue in #dotcom-triage-alerts labels Jul 11, 2023
@cuemarie cuemarie changed the title Missing Open in New Tab or Advanced Options when Adding a New Link Enhancement: Restore 'Open in New Tab or Advanced Options when Adding a New Link Jul 12, 2023
@cuemarie cuemarie changed the title Enhancement: Restore 'Open in New Tab or Advanced Options when Adding a New Link Enhancement: Restore 'Open in New Tab' or Advanced Options to Link Editor for pages and posts Jul 12, 2023
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cuemarie commented Jul 12, 2023

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  • Feature request kept

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cuemarie commented Jul 12, 2023

A recent example of user feedback on this in the forums: https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/open-link-in-a-new-tab-2/

User 1

Originally, the process was

Click “Insert Link”
Paste URL into text box.
Click the “Open link in new tab” checkbox.
Press Enter.

Now, if you want a link to open in a new tab, you have to

Click “Insert Link”
Paste URL into text box.
Press Enter.
Click on the link you just created.
Click the Edit button.
Click on Advanced Settings, which has NOW appeared.
Click the “Open link in new tab” checkbox.

This seems like change for change’s sake, and is time-wasting, especially as ALL the links I use (and there are many hundred, overall, because I still have nearly 300 posts to write) are ones I want opening in a new tab.

User 2

My frustration [...] is that the process just. takes. too. many. clicks. The effective use of links has helped to drive my niche blog to the top of Google search results for my particular subject matter. I’m looking for the most expedient way to add those links.

@cuemarie cuemarie added [Status] Core Fix Needed A fix within the Core WordPress or Gutenberg project is required to resolve this issue. Triaged To be used when issues have been triaged. [Pri] Normal and removed Needs triage Ticket needs to be triaged [Pri] Low labels Jul 12, 2023
@cuemarie
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Some internal discussion on this here: p1689240145573219-slack-C0160HSMDQV

@rw-ye
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rw-ye commented Jul 18, 2023

+1 for this feature request. The original process was much easier:

Click “Insert Link”
Paste URL into text box.
Click the “Open link in new tab” checkbox.
Press Enter.

@wiesenhauss
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This user requested that we relay the same feedback about the new process to set links to open in a new tab: 6560288-zen

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zdenys commented Jul 31, 2023

Another case 6589792-zd-woothemes

@jp-imagines
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Another frustrated user in 6598467-zd-woothemes (emphasis mine):

this is a bad change. Anything that makes it harder for us to blog is bad. This one really sux. It shouldn't be this hard.

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6638341-zd-woothemes

@github-actions github-actions bot added the Customer Report Issues or PRs that were reported via Happiness. Previously known as "Happiness Request". label Aug 15, 2023
@mrfoxtalbot mrfoxtalbot moved this to To triage in Dotcom Core Fix Needed Sep 2, 2024
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annezazu commented Sep 9, 2024

Closing this out as the refresh completed WordPress/gutenberg#50891 and some changes were made to ensure that once a user opens the advanced section of link control it will stay open until they close it again: WordPress/gutenberg#52799

@annezazu annezazu closed this as completed Sep 9, 2024
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