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Navigating the WordPress navigation block
The Gutenberg navigation block in WordPress has travelled far to get where it is today. It began quite a few years ago to solve the complicated navigation layout and management issues. Over time it has distilled back to focus on the block. Today, I wanted to walk through the current release of the block and…
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What are Gutenberg design tools and why do they matter for WordPress?
Design tools are what take your content from simple text to engaging, powerful interactions. They are vast and wide in the world of Gutenberg and incredibly crucial to the next stage of the editor. In this post, I wanted to take a look at why they are so important and what is to come specifically…
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Tips for surviving WordPress site editing experiments with Gutenberg
So you want to go into the brave site editing world and explore? That’s great, but before you go, here are some tips to make that journey a little gentler. Export at every opportunity Under ‘more tools and options’, you can click export to download your templates and template parts. Doing this ensures you always…
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Gutenberg Full Site Editing does not have to be full
I would love for us all to almost stop using the term “Full Site Editing” in 2022. That’s not to swap for “site editing” or another term, but to start calling each separate piece what it is. You see, when many say that term, they are joining functionality together that absolutely can add up to…
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The power of list view in Gutenberg 5.9
One of the powerful features in the WordPress block editor is the list view. This allows you to quite literally view the blocks and content in a list. However, with the on-coming of 5.9 it’s going to allow so much more. In today’s Extended Short, I wanted to take a little dive into the latest…
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What to expect in WordPress 5.9 from Gutenberg
As we enter a new year, a new release of WordPress is rapidly approaching, but what can you expect to see in this release? Let’s dig a little into the features and find out what’s coming in WordPress 5.9. This release is an important one, so important it took a little longer to get to…
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The power of Gutenberg image effects in WordPress
Have you discovered the power of stacking effects on images with Gutenberg? Welcome to Extended Shorts, a new series of short posts where we share some ways to extend your use of Gutenberg and create content in WordPress. If you select a cover block you will find, depending on your theme, a range of image…
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Block patterns are better than blocks
If I said think of a florist site, you likely wouldn’t just be thinking of a block. I bet you would be thinking of part of the site — the header, or even a feature section. You probably wouldn’t even visualise the entire site to start with. Thinking in patterns is natural for someone and…