Standardize required clicks for adding a link

[ddegner]

What problem does this address?

Adding a link to an image requires an extra click after selecting the page to link to that adding a link to text and other elements doesn't require. This has caused me to think that I added a link but it wasn't actually recorded.

Example of irregularity

What is your proposed solution?

I'd propose that on images after selecting the page to link to that the link is directly saved and the link interface closes, as it does with other elements.

[richtabor]

100%. There’s no reason those, or any link UI should be any different.

[getdave]

Just to confirm the link component used on Images is not the <LinkControl>. Rather it uses the underlying <URLInput> component.

Therefore I'm going to remove this Issue from the <LinkControl> tracking issue.

[richtabor]

I'm closing this as the LinkControl is coming to other linkable images as detailed in #50893. It'll be nice to have consistent linking everywhere throughout WordPress. 🚀