20250203-0020. Welp, I’ve done it again! A couple of days ago, I noticed that the VERY last Table of Contents block/widget was displaying four extra unwanted links! So I had to remove the Table of Contents block/widget from my main Project FlynnsBlogs page!
Lo and behold! The internal hashtags links from the left sidebar (containing the customized Navigation menu block/widget) worked perfectly to “Open in new tab” > Advanced > HTML ANCHOR of my main page for Project FlynnsBlogs!
I left the hashtag marks for my left side menu bar to make it obvious for readers that these are supposed to be internal jump-pages links and NOT external links.
I am happy but still sleepy after a brief dozing-off – post late supper a few minutes ago. But after one hour of brainstorming for the fastest shortcut to make my project completed to my ultimate satisfaction, I had two bumps.
The first bump or hurdle was making use of yesterday’s newly discovered block/widget called: Details. After halfway of clicking/retrieving tediously the Details block/widget, I received another incoming thought of inspiration to “Transform” my Groups into Details!
That worked out great and quicker, too! I learned to save my Pattern before tinkering with the Contents. And so the I deleted my first hard work (bump or hurdle) and retrieved and then Detached my saved Pattern back into my main working project page, and then Transformed each Group into Details.
Then the second bump or hurdle was trying to link the Heading from my main working project page to the Navigation menu! I discovered that the internal links/jump-page hashtags only worked for Heading set as “H1”, which is the largest for headings!
So I saved the main working project page, refreshed the Navigation menu page and proceeded to “search” for the post or page by simply typing the hashtag (#) followed by the unique Advanced > HTML ANCHOR.
Per instructions, I usually keep one to two words and without spaces. Instead of spaces, I use one dash or hyphen per space to separate my words because that’s how my brain works. I am just NOT used to seeing ONE long word strung together!
So I matched the H1 Heading and the Advanced > HTML ANCHOR and that worked out perfectly! Because I noticed that the Slugs for our blogs posts’ Post Titles are set-apart with “dashes” or “hyphens”.
So this was the alternate price for NOT have a working Table of Content block/widget!
- Transform groups into Details.
- Set main Heading to H1.
- Keep HTML ANCHOR short to one or two words without spaces.
- Set hashtags (#) for internal “jump-page” links.
Voila!
Finally, this was my ultimate dream come true for a simple project using Microsoft ClipArts and WordPress NextPage shortcode, which I removed because now I could collapse/hide and display my stuff in a nice compact view but off-center and to the left.
That’s all. End of status report 20250203-0046 PST.
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