Help Desk suggestion for Custom CSS points to inaccurate links and to Customizer, instead of Site Editor

[csabarakasz]

Quick summary

The user explained in this video how it is confusing to search for Custom CSS in the help desk since it directs them to the Customizer instead of the Site Editor or Global Styles, and also the links are not pointing to the proper places:

User's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4dpxdzqVHg

My recording of the issue: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63413700-49f3-496a-ac69-9cc178c47bc8

Steps to reproduce

1. search for Custom CSS in the help desk
2. Customize my theme is pointing to the old Customize area instead of Global Styles.

What you expected to happen

It would point me to Global Styles and the Add Custom CSS link would point me to the beginning of the support page instead of the Start Fresh anchor point.

What actually happened

It leads me to the Customizer and to the bottom of the Add custom CSS support page.

Impact

One

Available workarounds?

No and the platform is unusable

If the above answer is "Yes...", outline the workaround.

No response

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

No response

Logs or notes

No response

[Robertght]

📌 REPRODUCTION RESULTS

• Tested on Simple – Replicated
• Tested on Atomic – Replicated

📌 FINDINGS/SCREENSHOTS/VIDEO

• Weirdly, on Simple sites, the link goes to a 404:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/898197b2-624e-40a1-8e9f-cc7f88a0fbc3

End link: https://domain.com/customize/domain.com?return=https%3A%2F%domain.wordpress.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D26486%26action%3Dedit%26post_type%3Dpage%26calypsoify%3D1%26block-editor%3D1%26frame-nonce%3Dab885e9776%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwordpress.com%26environment-id%3Dstage%26support_user%26_support_token

📌 ACTIONS

• Triaged

[Robertght]

cc @Automattic/vertex

[escapemanuele]

Thank you @csabarakasz, I'll take care of this.