Too many windows keep opening on my screen
-
Hello: I’m setting up my first blog on wordpress.com, and am customizing and adding text to the basic template. Every time I make any kind of change or customization, wordpress.com opens in a new window. Not only do I wind up with 20 open windows on my screen, but it’s very hard to keep track of which one contains the latest published updates. What am I doing wrong, and how can I change it so that wordpress.com remains in one window? Thanks in advance for any assistance.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
-
Hi there!
It sounds like your browser is set up to open links in new tabs. For Firefox, you can change this using the directions for the Tabs section here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/startup-home-page-tabs-download-settings
If you still need any other help, just let us know!
-
Thanks very much for the reply! I think this is getting close to addressing my problem, but not quite. First, although I said “too many windows” above, I realize now (after reading the your link above) that what I meant and should have said should have said was “too many tabs.” So, using the Tabs section options, it seems my only choices are multiple windows or multiple tabs.
After playing with these options further, though, I think I just figured out my own problem, and it’s not my browser settings — rather, I’ve been manually opening the new tabs/windows myself by clicking an icon in the top left portion of the screen that looks like a box with an arrow (duh!). I didn’t know what this was, but clicking that icon has been the only way I can consistently get the “customize/edit” menu to appear on the screen.
Anyway, I won’t go on at further length, but just wanted to mention it here on the off chance that someone else may wind up with a similar problem and not know why it is happening. Thanks for helping me figure out the solution!
However, I think This makes me think I must be somehow navigating incorrectly in WordPress.com Let me try to explain the problem another way: on most websites, if I click an internal link, it does not open either a new tab or a window. Instead, the linked content opens up in the same tab or window, and if I want to go to the previous place I was I use the back or forward arrow on my browser. One website/one tab or window. By contrast, if I am editing my blog, every time I hit “cus and click on
-
HI there,
I’ve been manually opening the new tabs/windows myself by clicking an icon in the top left portion of the screen that looks like a box with an arrow (duh!).
That icon specifically means it’s a link that opens in a new tab, so your theory here is spot-on. In the WordPress.com My Sites dashboard that link only appears on the post, page and site previews, so you can open a preview in a new tab while still keeping the editor open in another tab.
You’ll also see that icon in the Reader. This opens a post in a new tab so you can read it on the author’s site, rather than in the Reader.
However, I think This makes me think I must be somehow navigating incorrectly in WordPress.com Let me try to explain the problem another way: on most websites, if I click an internal link, it does not open either a new tab or a window.
In the dashboard no other links should be opening in a new tab. For links on individual sites, this is controlled by the site owners. When you add a link inside a post or page there is an option you can check to open a link in a new tab. If the owner of any particular site used that option those links will always open in a new tab and there is no way to prevent that.
-
Ah, thank you for the explanation of why that icon exists, and how you’re supposed to use it! I’m slowly but surely getting the navigation logic.
-
- The topic ‘Too many windows keep opening on my screen’ is closed to new replies.
WordPress.com Forums 