Editing Website Content
Tips and help for editing your website content in WordPress.
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Changing or Disabling Embeds
The WordPress Embed feature makes it easy for you to embed snippets of content from other sites into your web posts or pages, with appropriate attribution and links. The other side of that coin is that other people can embed your content into their website. You may want to change how your own embeds appear,…
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Gallery Slideshow
How to use the Gallery block to create an image slideshow. Simple Gallery, Default Settings The Gallery block shows a set of image thumbnails. By default, the thumbnails are displayed, in the chosen layout, with no click-through effect. Gallery with Click to Full Size Edit the gallery block. In the Block Controls toolbar (above the…
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Button with Download
Allow website visitor to click on a button to directly download a file – even a PDF – rather than first opening it in the browser. Usually, clicking on a link (either a button or a normal text link) will cause the link to be opened in the browser, if possible. If the link is…
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Accordion Block
The Accordion Block is a very useful block for FAQs, and other “click for more information” scenarios. WordPress v6.9 introduces this block into the native WordPress editor. This block is particularly useful when you want behaviour such as “close one question when another is opened”.
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Details Block
The Details block is handy for standalone “click to read more information” sections on a web page. Previously, we might have had to add a plugin or use a more sophisticated page builder to achieve this “accordion” type action, but the details block allows us to add this kind of content very simply.
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Block Editor – Image Block
The block editor Image block allows images to be added from your computer or from the media library. Uploading the image and adding Alt Text may be all you need to do but there are other settings to help manage the appearance of the image on the page.
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Footnotes
The WordPress Block Editor makes it easy to add footnotes or references at the bottom of a post. Footnotes can be added as you go, or at any time when editing, and appear in a block at the bottom of the page.
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Finding Your Way Around the Block Editor
The WordPress Block Editor provides several helpful methods for finding your way around the editor and ensuring you are interacting with the right block. These include the post breadcrumbs in the footer, the parent block icon in the block control bar, and the document overview […]
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Convert Existing Content into Blocks
What if your website has existing content which was written before the Block Editor came along? Or you have existing content and you want to migrate to a theme which supports the Block Editor. Must You Convert Existing Content into Blocks? You don’t HAVE to convert existing content into blocks – the page content will…
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Copy from Word into the Block Editor
Many people like to write their content using a familiar program, such as Word or other word processing software. They write and edit the text until it is correct and readable, and then copy from Word and paste into the post or page in the WordPress website. This approach can be used with the Block…