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WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook - Third Edition
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WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook - Third Edition

by Yannick Lefebvre
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
420 pages
8h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 6: Extending the Block Editor

As mentioned a few times thus far, a large evolution in WordPress functionality came in version 5.0 with the introduction of the Block Editor, also well known by its development codename, Gutenberg. While the original page editor was quite functional and had been supporting content creators for many years, it did not provide full What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) functionality. More specifically, users building a complex website were often required to use shortcodes that are only seen once a page is saved and viewed on the site, or even had to type in HTML code. Of course, many third-party plugins (Visual Composer, WPBakery, Elementor, Divi, and so on) saw this as an opportunity to provide more advanced ...

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