Gutenberg landed in WordPress in 2018. This changed the WordPress posts screen from a simple box of text to a more advanced drag-and-drop content creator.
The Gutenberg editor uses a block-based system to provide flexibility with how content is displayed. This allows you to use blocks to easily add text, images, multimedia content, code, quote, buttons, and much more.
The Gutenberg editor provokes a lot of debate in the WordPress world. Some people love Gutenberg – we’re in that camp and built the PublishPress Blocks plugin. Some people really don’t like Gutenberg and prefer to stick with the editor they’ve used for years. However, most WordPress users have more mixed feelings and prefer to…
Using the PublishPress Blocks plugin, you can control how and when blocks appear on your site. The “Block Controls” feature gives you a wide range of options, including these: In version 3.1.2 of PublishPress Blocks, these controls are improved and expanded. Here’s what’s new in this release.
PublishPress Blocks 3.1 is available now and allows you to control which users can see a specific Gutenberg block. The PublishPress Blocks plugin has a new “User Role Controls feature”. This makes it possible to add the following restrictions to any Gutenberg block: Show a block to logged in users only. Show a block to…
PublishPress Blocks is one of the most popular plugins we offer, with over 30,000 active users. PublishPress Blocks has tools to help improve the Gutenberg editor. You’ll find extra blocks, options to control who can use each block, and the ability to easily add CSS to each block. We’ve just released version 3.0 of PublishPress…
The PublishPress Blocks plugin is growing in a new direction. The latest release of PublishPress Blocks (version 2.14) introduces a feature called “Block Controls”. This will give you the ability to control who sees your blocks and when they display. This first “Block Controls” setting allows you to schedule blocks to publish and unpublish. Every…
PublishPress Blocks is one of the most popular plugins for Gutenberg blocks with over 30,000 users. In the latest release of PublishPress Blocks Pro, you’ll find some really cool new design options, including these: Google Fonts: You can choose from over 1,000 fonts to use in your blocks. Content Display block: This block is the…
Both the Gutenberg Editor and Elementor are excellent ways to build a WordPress website. We recently checked the numbers and found that these are the two fastest growing options for WordPress sites. However, in most situations, you need to choose either Gutenberg or Elementor. The two systems are not very compatible with each other. So…
Nested blocks are a really useful feature in the Gutenberg editor. If you haven’t used them yet, you almost certainly will when the new “Full-Site Editing” changes arrive in WordPress 5.8. At that point, you will be able to build complete webpages in Gutenberg and I guarantee you’ll be using nested blocks. Nested blocks makes…
JetEngine is a very ambitious project that attempts to do almost everything for a WordPress website. JetEngine is available from Crocoblock.com and supports both Gutenberg and Elementor. Their products span everything from Gutenberg blocks and themes to creating post types and options pages. This image below is taken from their website and gives you some…
The Gutenberg editor delivered a lot of cool improvements for WordPress users. One of these is that it’s now much easier to add code your WordPress posts. I’m going to show you two ways to add code in Gutenberg. The first option allows you to add whole blocks of code. The second option allows you…