Intro

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When you hear the name Gutenberg do you think of this guy?

Or this book?

Or this website?

It’s certainly understandable if you do. What I’m going to look at here though is a WordPress-related thing introduced in the latest versions of WordPress. Gutenberg in the WordPress sense refers to a new text editor that has a ton of great features.

Agenda (responsive)

• How to get to and change editors
• Effects with classic editor plugin
• Editor interfaces & differences
• Blocks and Blocks
  • Adding
  • Working with
  • Saving & reusing
  • Settings
  • More Blocks
• Creating a simple blog post
  • Text & image
  • Blocks within Blocks
• Wildcard page
• Goodies
  • Nifty block types
    • Media & Text
    • Button
    • Cover Image
    • Tables
    • Multi-column
    • Embeds
  • Design Library Plugin

Resources

Rather than writing it up myself there are a couple of excellent introductions out there in internet land that I’ll point you to.

• https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-use-the-new-wordpress-block-editor/
• https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/wordpress-gutenberg-guide/

 

I’ll also direct you to the Gutenberg Hub for curated links and resources for all user levels. Stick to the Get Starting menu if you are just getting started.

https://gutenberghub.com/