I can create a new Thing in its own page with the live Editor
Summary: At the moment, _createButton opens a new editor in place. This is right sometimes, but the work flow often works better editing in its own page. I have no way now to write a button that opens the Thing in create mode.
This may work better after I change the main edit button to open a live editor. Then the default _createButton can create the Thing, and open the page in edit mode.