Cover Picture Block
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.
The goal of this new editor is to make adding rich content to WordPress simple and enjoyable. This whole post is composed of pieces of content—somewhat similar to LEGO bricks—that you can move around and interact with. Move your cursor around and you’ll notice the different blocks light up with outlines and arrows. Press the arrows to reposition blocks quickly, without fearing about losing things in the process of copying and pasting.
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. Hopefully, you’ll find aspects of adding captions or going full-width with your pictures much easier and robust than before.
Try selecting and removing or editing the caption, now you don’t have to be careful about selecting the image or other text by mistake and ruining the presentation.
SLH: Non-Fiction
The Undoing Project by Lewis, Michael 612.8 The Grid by Bakke, Gretchen 333.793
The Mother Tongue by Bryson, Bill 420 Embroider Your Life by Mornu, Nathalie 746.44
She Sheds by Kotite, Erika 725
Knitless: 50 no-knit, stash-busting yarn projects by McFadden, Laura 764.4
Presence by Cuddy, Amy 158.1
The Origins of Totalitarism by Arendt, Hannah 321.9 The Death of Truth by Kakutani, Michiko 306.2 Purchased
Engineering for Cats by Delaney, Mat WISHLIST
differently wired. by Reber, Deborah On Order (Library) My Life as a Goddess by Branum, Guy
Killing It by Davis, Camas On Order (Library)
SLH: Fiction
Everything I Don’t Remember by Khemiri, Jonas Hassen
Where the Crawdads Sing by Owens, Delia
The Idiot by Batuman, Elif
Reading with Patrick by Kuo, Michelle Little Fires Everywhere by Ng, Celeste AUDIO BOOK
Let Me Be Like Water by Perry, S.K On Order (Library)
Cloud Hotel by Hanshaw, Julian On Order (Library)
Three Things About Elsie by Cannon, Joanna
The Yellow Envelope by Dinan, Kim WISHLIST
Nemesis by Reichs, Brendan Young Adult Fiction
Princess Cora and the Crocodile by Schlitz, Laura Amy Youth Fiction
Beast by Spangler, Brie Young Adult Fiction
Merrow by Braxton-Smith, Amanda Young Adult Fiction
Invictus by Graudin, Ryan Young Adult Fiction
Some Writer by Sweet, Melissa Youth Biography
NBH: Fiction
House of the Rising Sun by Burke, James Lee
Envy by Brown, Sandra
And West is West by Childress, Ron
Keep Quiet by Scottoline, Lisa
Sky Blue by Brand, Max
Holy Ghost by Sandford, John On Order or Ckd Out(Library)
The Last Time I Lied by Sager, Riley (LARGE TYPE)
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by Crantz, Lager Murder on the Left Bank by Black, Cara The Cabin at the End of the World by Tremblay, Paul Crimson Lake by Fox, Candice
Force of Nature by Harper, Jane
The Dry by Harper, Jane
The Bay by Harper, Jane Sharp Objects by Flynn, Gillian
The Grown Up by Flynn, Gillian
Don’t Eat Me by Cotterill, Colin On Order (Library)
The Ruin by McTiernan, Dervla On Order (Library)
The Little Old Lady Behaving Badly by Cotterill, Colin[^1]
Sweet, Little Lies by Frear, Caz My Sister’s Bones by Ellwood, Nuala
Snowblind, Nightblind, Blackout by Jonasson, Ragnar
NBH: Non-Fiction
American Fire by Hesse, Monica 364.16 No One Tells You This by MacNichols, Glynnis 362.83
Dead Girls by Bolin, Alice On Order (Library)
What Unites Us by Rather, Dan 323.6
Class Clowns: How … Investors Lost Billions … by Knee, Jonathan WISHLIST
The Physics of Wall Street by Weatherall, James Owen WISHLIST
[^1]: Other mysteries by Cotterill, Colin e.g. -[x] I shot the Buddha, The woman who wouldn’t die
The Inserter Tool
INTERESTING
‘Question: How do I delete this block?’ she asked. You should type the quotes if you want. Ignore those in the text? We will see. Notice the last few characters on the last part of this quote is OUT OF ALIGNMENT.
She noticed 10/2018 punctuation out of alignment and functioning of short cut key to remove block does not remove text inside, where as using the buttons does.
Answer: “Right click on the block, then click more options and to remove the block. CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE key version does not remove the text INSIDE the block.”
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.
Go 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 🙂
Visual Editing
A huge benefit of blocks is that you can edit them in place and manipulate your content directly. Instead of having fields for editing things like the source of a quote, or the text of a button, you can directly change the content. Try editing the following quote:
The editor will endeavor to create a new page and post building experience that makes writing rich posts effortless, and has “blocks” to make it easy what today might take shortcodes, custom HTML, or “mystery meat” embed discovery. [Does this mean that more than one sentence is in right alignment is an issue?] Something else is wrong with the above quote block. Still testing.
The information corresponding to the source of the quote is a separate text field, similar to captions under images, so the structure of the quote is protected even if you select, modify, or remove the source. It’s always easy to add it back.
Blocks can be anything you need. For instance, you may want to add a subdued quote as part of the composition of your text, or you may prefer to display a giant stylized one. All of these options are available in the inserter.
You can change the amount of columns in your galleries by dragging a slider in the block inspector in the sidebar.
Media Rich
If you combine the new wide and full-wide alignments with galleries, you can create a very media rich layout, very quickly:
Sure, the full-wide image can be pretty big. But sometimes the image is worth it.
The above is a gallery with just two images. It’s an easier way to create visually appealing layouts, without having to deal with floats. You can also easily convert the gallery back to individual images again, by using the block switcher.
Any block can opt into these alignments. The embed block has them also, and is responsive out of the box:
You can build any block you like, static or dynamic, decorative or plain. Here’s a pullquote block:
Code is Poetry
The WordPress community
If you want to learn more about how to build additional blocks, or if you are interested in helping with the project, head over to the GitHub repository.
Thanks for testing Gutenberg!