WordPress 5 Cookbook

Publishing Site Content with the Gutenberg Editor

WordPress was first introduced as a blogging tool and then became a content management system. These days, WordPress is used to develop advanced applications beyond content management systems. However, most existing WordPress sites are basic sites that use CMS features. So, we need the ability to add and manage content quickly. As a solution, Page Builders were developed to speed up the process of building content pages by dragging and dropping built-in elements. However, we need separate page builder plugins as the WordPress editor doesn't have any built-in page building features.

The new Gutenberg editor was introduced as a solution to allow block-based editing to speed up this process, ...