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WordPress gets ready to welcome the Gutenberg Editor

WordPress is the go-to editor for the most amount of websites on the world wide web. OxGadgets runs on it as well. Ever since we have been around (over 5 years now), we have been using WordPress 4.x, and seen it develop. Rumour has it that things are about to change big time, and the most obvious change coming is the visual one in the editor. With WordPress 5, get ready to meet the Gutenberg Editor! Of course, not everyone has to wait till 5, we have already been given a preview, and if you head to your WordPress website, you might get a preview as well! 

It’s all blocks! 

The cover image below? A block – which allows you to add an image and then add text to it! 

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What you are reading now is a text block, the most basic block of all. The text block has its own controls to be moved freely around the post…

… like this one, which is right aligned.

Headings are separate blocks as well, which helps with the outline and organization of your content.

A Picture is worth a Thousand Words

Handling images and media with the utmost care is a primary focus of the new editor. Among the blocks, you will find aspects of adding captions or going full-width with your pictures much easier and robust than before.

Beautiful landscape
If your theme supports it, you’ll see the “wide” button on the image toolbar. 

Captions are more intelligent than ever. Just select and adjust them. No need to worry about accidentally messing up text. 

The Inserter Tool

Imagine everything that WordPress can do is available to you quickly and in the same place on the interface. No need to figure out HTML tags, classes, or remember complicated shortcode syntax. That’s the spirit behind the inserter—the (+) button you’ll see around the editor—which allows you to browse all available content blocks and add them into your post. Plugins and themes are able to register their own, opening up all sort of possibilities for rich editing and publishing.

The (+) button can be found in the top left corner of your editor

If you give it a try, you may discover things WordPress can already add into your posts that you didn’t know about. Here’s a short list of what you can currently find there:

  • Text & Headings
  • Images & Videos
  • Galleries
  • Embeds, like YouTube, Tweets, or other WordPress posts.
  • Layout blocks, like Buttons, Hero Images, Separators, etc.
  • And Lists like this one of course 🙂

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7 thoughts on “WordPress gets ready to welcome the Gutenberg Editor

  1. Does the normal wordpress search function filter out all those wp:whatever comments in HTML or is every post with any Gutenberg heading block returned if somebody searches your blog for “head” or similar?

      1. The word “Heading” appears in your post as regular text, so trying this here does not make sense.

        It would be interesting to know if a post shows up in search result for “head” if not the word “Heading” is used in it but only a heading block.

    1. That’s very interesting. I have not had that problem when I have tried. Have you tried copy pasting paragraph by paragraph?

      Probably depends on how the Word doc is formatted, because different formatting definitely pastes differently into WordPress, even the classic editor.

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