Link Field: Insert/Edit Link Submits Post

• dhein

• August 28, 2024 at 10:55 am

I have a custom post-type with a number of required fields, including a few link fields.

For any of these link fields, when I click Select Link, enter a URL, and then click ‘Add Link’ (which is a submit input within the modal popup), it appears that it tries to submit/publish the entire post. The posts’s ‘Publish’ button greys-out, a loading spinner appears, and after a few seconds, validation messages appear for all other required fields.

The same does not seem to occur if I first enter data into the required fields, however for content authors this is an undesirable experience for them and I am hoping to track down information on how I might prevent this from happening.

I have tried this on several websites which I work on and the same things seems to happen.

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• dhein

• August 28, 2024 at 11:09 am

I think I’ve exceeded my time to be able to edit this post so just following up with another screenshot of what occurs after inserting a link. I’ve crossed-out a few things so as not to expose too much information about the website itself. Thanks for reading, any help would be greatly appreciated.

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