WordPress.COM – NEW Block Editor – My First Attempt and Thoughts

Today, I thought I would finally play around with Gutenberg the New Editor by WordPress.com. Additionally, I hear the classic editor will be discontinued in 2020, so I better get learning it now, and I thought you might find it interesting too.

What better way of showing you what it can do by making this post, demonstrate some of the cool things you can do with it.

Oh by the way, my learning style can be described as winging it. The days of me reading how to use something before using it when out the door in my late twenties a few decades ago…lol…I just go for it now.

Block Editor – aka Gutenberg.

Firstly, I had no clue it was called Gutenberg, I learnt that from Hugh’s blog.

Gutenberg, allows you to create blocks as Heading, paragraphs and images. But, for me the most exciting tools are the ability to create columns and Drop capitals. Also, you can create reusable blocks which I assume you can use on different blog posts. Also, you can move blocks up and down. Oooh So much fun.

Below is a demo of 2 columns, and 3 different text paragraphs, with drop capital and a bit of colour to jazz it up a bit. Note, if you look at this in the reader you will not see the columns in their full glory, but if you visit my site it will (now that is a bit annoying for wp.users), and these 2 columns aren’t visible on my Samsung mobile – also annoying 😔😂.

Within a block you can use the classic editor, which I did to created the pingback/linkback to Hughs blog and then converted it back to a block. I only did this way as I could not figure out an easier way. This is only my first attempt.

IMAGES: To resize images is much easier, as the images has handles that move to make the image bigger or smaller. I like this because it a like using word and images in word.

You can also add links to facebook, twitter, Instagram and youtube etc posts and more by using Embed block.

I conclude, based on my first attempt all of 120 mins, the blocks functionality is a bit fiddly. In some places it is not intuitive for a person like me who just wants to dives right into using it. However, it is not impossible to get used to and it allows you to do some cool stuff quite easily especially if you don’t want to learn how write HTML like me. My attempt was a total fly by the seat of my pants attempt and I got the hang of it. But, in Hughs blog post, he gives more details and two links to two very useful post that are worth reading, as there is only so far you can go without reading instructions.

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Did you find this post useful? Are you using the block editor, what are your thoughts, do comment below? Do you know how to embed facebook if so can you comment below? As I learn more do you want me to blog on how to do xyz with the block editor?

We should always move out of our comfort zones even if it forced- lol. I would like to give thanks to Hugh’s blog post that kicked me into action. Hugh, said something very important on his post, that is, we should use it and if we find any bugs we should report them to word press so they can make the block tool more friendly and bug free as in 2020 we won’t be able to use the classic editor