WordPress: Learn Gutenberg Blocks II

 

More How To Use
Gutenberg Blocks
in WordPress

I want to share more about how I learned to use Gutenberg...

A month ago I posted an article where I mentioned that official support for the classic WordPress editor plugin will end on December 31st, 2021 ~ some 15 months from now. ("WordPress: Learn Gutenberg Blocks")

My solution is to...

Learn/Use Gutenberg Blocks, now!

For your convenience I've created a play list in my YouTube channel with the Yoast videos from my previous article:  YouTube Playlist. It's an hour of continuous watching.

 A month after I posted that article I found one sentence that put everything in perspective.

• Visualize a page as a stack of blocks, one block at a time on top of each other.
• There is one block per row.
• Each block is designed to display content in a specific format. 
  
  
  
• Among these formats are:
• paragraphs (text), 
• titles, 
• images, 
• videos, 
• literally dozens of other formats. 
• Some of these blocks are free, some are sold as a premium, and some may be part of a theme package. The names "block editor" and "Gutenberg" are used interchangeably.
• Each block can be formatted differently from the preceding and following blocks.
• Each block can contain other blocks.
• There are special blocks for layout. One such block can contain columns! 
• And yes, you can embed blocks inside the columns.
• A typical page might look like this (7 blocks in 6 rows):
1. Title block
2. Image block, centered
3. Text block - 1st paragraph
4. Text block - 2nd paragraph
5. Column block - 2 columns
• Left column - image block
• Right column - text block (for description)
6. Text block - Another paragraph

There is still a lot to learn - and to master - from learning what blocks are available to learning how to format each block individually, how to save blocks for repeated use, how to embed and stack blocks.

I again refer you to my previous article from a month ago, "WordPress: Learn Gutenberg Blocks," for a step-by-step lesson.

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Bibliography & Reading

FYI: I am a digital immigrant (vs a digital native, AKA millineals). My analogies and stories are best understood and enjoyed by people born before 1980. I like to share what I've learned, and I like the word free.

Additional Videos

•  YouTube Playlist For your convenience I've created a play list in my YouTube channel with the Yoast videos above.  It's an hour of continuous watching.
• "The history of WordPress" (9 minutes)
• "Intro to Publishing with the Block Editor" (40 min) This video is from WordPress.org
• You can go directly to the Yoast channel for their Yoast SEO academy for all their videos.

Articles

• "Support Window [for Classic Editor] Set to End in 2021"
• "WordPress Blocks: The Ultimate Guide to Gutenberg Blocks" (iThemes)

Websites

• Yoast SEO
• ABCInc Playlist for all these videos