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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition
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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition

by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
February 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
608 pages
14h 45m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 1

Exploring the WordPress Block Editor

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Using the block editor

Bullet Discovering the available blocks for your content

Bullet Configuring block options and settings

The idea behind the block editor is to give users a variety of blocks with which to create posts and pages on their WordPress sites. Compare WordPress blocks to the blocks you played with as a child; you were able to take one block and stack it on top of the next block and the next to build a tower of blocks to the moon. Each block within the WordPress editor gets filled with content (text, images, video, and so on) and is stacked atop another block with more content, and so on, until you have a full page of content created with blocks that you can configure with options to control formatting and display and move around on the page to create the experience you want for your readers.

This chapter takes you through the new block editor in WordPress.

Tip WordPress named the new block editor Gutenberg after Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press. Generically, everyone refers to it as the block editor, ...

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