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# psyctc

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 *   Forum: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/)
   
   In reply to: [5.7 reusable blocks are a backwards step](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/5-7-reusable-blocks-are-a-backwards-step-2/)
 *  [psyctc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psyctc/)
 * (@psyctc)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/5-7-reusable-blocks-are-a-backwards-step-2/#post-14551446)
 * I am deeply frustrated by reusable blocks. The idea is clearly excellent but 
   my experience, in both 5.7.1 and 5.7.2 is that, at least for what I want to do,
   that they are fundamentally broken and I suspect that is because the design is
   fundamentally misconceived. I have a pages that are for chapters of a book and
   it seemed a brilliant option to create a “navigation block” at the bottom of 
   each that would be table of three columns: previous | book overview | next with
   small font and different background colour from the rest of the page. I would
   insert that into the bottom of each page, convert it from reusable to ordinary,
   add the correct links to “previous” and “next” so that they would jump to the
   preceding chapter and next chapter. Seemed perfect use for reusable blocks and
   would save me an hour or two that it would take me to build the table for each
   page.
 * What I get is a total mess: generally WP isn’t offering the option to convert
   to ordinary block, if you want to manage reusable blocks you lose changes in 
   your page. I suspect some of the problems may be corner cases of using a table
   in a reusable block but surely we need blocks as a full heading on the dashboard
   menu so we can edit reusable blocks and manage them quite separately from the
   pages and the saving of pages and of their reusable blocks needs to be rewritten
   so that it correctly separates the two quite distinct saves. Surely at that point
   it would be wise to prompt “If you save this block it will update all other uses
   of it: maybe you want to convert it to an ordinary block?” and offer a Y/N option
   there. That would have saved me hours of mess.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Enable Media Replace] PDF File Replacement](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pdf-file-replacement/)
 *  [psyctc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psyctc/)
 * (@psyctc)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pdf-file-replacement/#post-13543619)
 * This seems quite bizarre to me. So when the plugin offers ““Replace the file,
   use new file name and update all links” it doesn’t mean it? It means “I will 
   wipe the old file, replacing it with the new name and I really, really WON’T 
   update all links, in fact I won’t update any old links at all so they’ll all 
   be broken so you probably really don’t want to do this”. Or it might say “I will
   wipe the old file, replacing it with the new name and I really, really WON’T 
   update all links, in fact I won’t update any old links at all so they’ll all 
   be broken so you probably really don’t want to do this unless you’re happy adding
   an .htaccess redirect rule to your site.” I will probably stay with the plugin
   but I think you need to change this and I’m very, very glad I experimented with
   a file I no longer needed in a sandbox site and didn’t just take that message
   at its face value!
 *   Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/)
    In reply to:
   [[Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin] Incredibly irritating relentless prompting for comment](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incredibly-irritating-relentless-prompting-for-comment/)
 *  Thread Starter [psyctc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psyctc/)
 * (@psyctc)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incredibly-irritating-relentless-prompting-for-comment/#post-12870823)
 * 2.1.5
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WP Featherlight - A Simple jQuery Lightbox] How to insert single image in WP 5.4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-insert-single-image-in-wp-5-4/)
 *  Thread Starter [psyctc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psyctc/)
 * (@psyctc)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-insert-single-image-in-wp-5-4/#post-12670223)
 * So it’s the bar on **_TOP_** of the block you are talking about. Even if “sidebar”
   is the official name for that, which I don’t think is the case, I will not be
   the only person looking at the sides for this. Then you say:
 * “In your screenshot, you can see a link icon in the bar. Click on that and choose
 * > Media file
 * . [https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7h1c0llh0bmq9i/Selection_049_for_featherlight.jpg?dl=0&#8243](https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7h1c0llh0bmq9i/Selection_049_for_featherlight.jpg?dl=0&#8243);
   
   What on earth is that link there for? If I just select “Media file” I agree it
   works.
 * I’m not convinced that an issue that cripples the end user experience is “resolved”
   either if it’s caused by the inescapable host system, here WordPress, or if it
   has a solution but that solution is so poorly explained that the end user can’t
   use it without coming back to you. Ah well, pity, I liked featherlight a great
   deal, perhaps I still do. However, it gets a one star rating now. Software quality
   is as much about support as about unexplained functionality. This may be a free
   plugin, so I agree I take my chances, but it looks as if you ought to be making
   enough from the extensions to be able to sort out good support.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WP Featherlight - A Simple jQuery Lightbox] How to insert single image in WP 5.4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-insert-single-image-in-wp-5-4/)
 *  Thread Starter [psyctc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psyctc/)
 * (@psyctc)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-insert-single-image-in-wp-5-4/#post-12668662)
 * I’ve read that link and your reply and it doesn’t help me. I see no
 * > Link Settings
 *  in the sidebar, see [https://staging.coresystemtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Selection_049_for_featherlight.png](https://staging.coresystemtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Selection_049_for_featherlight.png).
   I’m sorry if I’m being blind or stupid but I really have searched around and 
   couldn’t find anything and I’m sure I’d read that earlier post which hadn’t helped.
   Can you link to a screenshot showing me what I should be seeing or tell me more
   about how to find it?
 * By the way, surely it was a bit premature to mark this “resolved”?
 *   Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/)
    In reply to:
   [[Easy Appointments] Started fine, now broken and author not working on it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/started-fine-now-broken-and-author-not-working-on-it/)
 *  Thread Starter [psyctc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psyctc/)
 * (@psyctc)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/started-fine-now-broken-and-author-not-working-on-it/#post-12488233)
 * Nikola. I have repeatedly told you what is wrong by Email and you’re not fixing
   it. The plugin should use the time zone of the calendar, it is causing people
   to get ics confirmations an hour out from the actual time. I have even told you
   things you could do to fix it. Please do so.

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