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previously published as “Gutenberg Blocks – Video, Audio and Embeds” Adding video or audio with the Block Editor is fairly intuitive and perhaps a clearer and simpler process than with the classic WP editor. Audio The Audio block allows you to upload or select from the library an audio (mp3) file. Alternatively, you can enter…
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previously published as “Gutenberg Blocks – Images” These are the main blocks in the Block Editor which handle images:- Image Choosing an Image block allows images to be added from your computer or from the media library (ie already uploaded to WordPress), just as in the classic WordPress editor. After uploading/choosing the image, alt text,…
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previously published as “Gutenberg Blocks – Text and Formatting” Let’s take a look at each of the standard blocks provided with the Block Editor (previously known as the Gutenberg editor). First, the more typical blocks which deal with text and formatting:- See these other articles for further formatting blocks and image-handling blocks. All of these…
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Previously published as “Writing with Gutenberg” When you add a new post or page, you will see the Block Editor screen, ready for you to enter content. A “Welcome” help dialogue may be shown, on first using the editor. If you wish to see this again at any time, you can redisplay the Welcome guide.…
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Every one of us who has a website has a responsibility to keep it secure. Here’s why […]
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This is cute – just by including the link on a new line in the WordPress editor, I can embed a nice little extract of a post or page from my own site. How to Schedule Posts in the Future And I can embed a similar extract from any other WordPress site. What is “Shop Your…
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for WordPress Version 3.5 or later. A gallery is a set of images displayed in a post or page as thumbnails, which you can click on to display a larger image. Including a gallery is a very simple process in WordPress and WordPress 3.5 brings a lot of control and versatility. Here’s my sample gallery Here’s…
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Here’s how to add new photos to a Page or Post which displays an existing Gallery within WordPress. 1. Upload the new images If your post or page already contains a gallery, you’ll see an image like this within the WordPress editing box:- To add a new photo, you can just click on the WordPress…
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for WordPress Version 3.1 or later. The easiest way to add video to a WordPress post or page is to do it via YouTube. YouTube takes care of hosting the video files and managing file formats – whatever format your video is in, YouTube will convert it so that it can be viewed over the…
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Here’s a question from one of my WordPress clients:- How do I control which is the front page of my website? WordPress basically has two options for that front (or home) page:- it can be a specific page that you select it can be the front page of your blog, containing the most recent posts (you can choose…