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.
If the posts in your site have multiple text sections and multiple headings, it makes sense to have a table of contents detailing the structure of your information. This makes it easy to navigate through the post with the help of a navigation menu. The Summary Block in PublishPress Blocks provides this functionality through a…
The most important asset of a business is its customers without a doubt. People deposit their trust and do believe in persons like them, with the same needs and requirements. That is why a testimonial section on your site takes the focus out of your business and places it on the customer. This is a…
The most common reason for building a personal or business site is to be contacted by other people with common interests, or clients. The Contact Form block in PublishPress Blocks makes this possible. The block provides a simple feedback form with customizable options. You can create personalized contact forms for each post, or a unified…
The Gutenberg editor has been with us for nearly 2 years now. I know it’s not always popular to say, but we’re big fans here at PublishPress. After a bumpy start, the new editor is really useful now and it’s about to get even better with Phase 3 of the Gutenberg project. We’ve recently committed…
One PublishPress user asked us if it’s possible to rearrange metaboxes in Gutenberg. This users has installed PublishPress Checklists and wanted the checklist area to be at the top of sidebar when writing posts. This image show the move they wanted:
The new Gutenberg editor in WordPress makes it really easy to share Amazon links. Since the release of WordPress 5.2 in May 2019, you can find an “Amazon Kindle” block. When you’re writing a post in WordPress, click the “Add block” button and you can search for “Amazon Kindle”:
Inserting a YouTube or Vimeo video in your WordPress site is easier with Gutenberg than it was with the old Classic Editor. Videos are always useful in a web site. They provide trust in your content, and with the right design approach, they also are an essential part of the user interface and user experience…
Update: this plugin is now called “PublishPress Blocks”. In February this year, I received an email from the team at JoomUnited. We’ve crossed paths several times over the last decade or more. This time, they had an offer: “Would you be interested in taking over the Advanced Gutenberg plugin?” Advanced Gutenberg is a plugin that…
If you write really long articles in WordPress, it can very helpful to have a table of contents at the top of the post. This table of contents is as a quick summary so readers can scan the content and perhaps jump down to a topic they’re really interested in. In this post, I’ll show…
Here at PublishPress, we’re focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. And lately we’ve been learning about new publishing features that may be coming to the new editor in Gutenberg Phase 3. Back in November 2019, we wrote about collaborative Google Docs-style editing in WordPress. This image gives a good idea of what we’re talking…