5 Tips that make Gutenberg easier for WordPress 🤗

[@duranopaulo]

Big Thanks from the Philippines.

[@martinkaspar5095]

good day dear, many thanks for all you did in the last year: you are so awesome. I am a big big fan of all your videos: thanks for the contribution to the Wordwide WP Community. the global wordpress-community is very very excited and cant wait to get more information about the new WordPress Version 5.9. we need more infos about the following features and hot topics: Well, just one month befor 5.9 is landing - just wondered what features and extras are we are heading: - Full site editing - Query loop: awesome and a big step towards new theming - Gutenberg and Block Themes - Blocks + intrinsic web design for the UX-design - Navigation menus that allow more and better overview - Refining editing flows for block themes - Additional design tools and enhancements - New default theme TT2: new standard theme: blockbased: Twenty Twenty-Two, here we come. - and alot more... - Interface for theme.json: a very cool feature and alot of other features supportet by theme.json - editable json-file: tools that help to interact with theme.json - Border-areas: color, style, interact and customize lots of values inc.width augment the border-radius property that landed in 5.8. - theming options that extend the power and flexibility of the user - Center-areas: more flexibilty and controll - Flex layouts: in theming - especially the new block gap support, and various other improvements courtesy of spacing.blockGap. - Typography: new addings like various Font-Families, Font Style, etc and alot more it would great if you keep up your great work and create more awesome videos: the global wordpress-community is very very excited and cant wait to get more information about the new WordPress Version 5.9. many thanks for all you did in the last year: you are so awesome. Thanks for the contribution to the Wordwide WP Community. Please keep up the great work - and have a great and a happy new year. all the best to you regards Martin

[@robnewman8973]

First of all, thanks for doing this video. It was helpful. I am totally new to Wordpress and have been struggling for days to figure out where to start in actually using it to build a first website for my new company. Videos that break it down to the basics that aren’t based on “look at me and how great I am at showing you how to click here and there to quickly build something you can’t duplicate” are hard to come by. Your video helped by giving the lay of the land so I know where to find things and better understand how to move forward on my own. I look forward to checking out your other videos,

[@WPMinute]

Good luck on your new business, Rob. Thanks for stopping by.

[@benjaminquek1093]

Helpful for a newbie, thank you

[@mikeoliver191]

This is the perfect intro to things you need to know. I learned all these through trial and error and wish I watched this 6 months ago :)

[@WPMinute]

Ha, glad it helped, even if it was 6 months late!

[@harleyjordan7914]

you all prolly dont care but does anybody know of a way to get back into an Instagram account..? I somehow lost my account password. I would love any help you can give me.

[@taariqq]

That tip on 'parent block' selection, very helpful! It is one of the most frustrating aspects of using Gutenberg.

[@Meinungsmacher]

so true

[@WPMinute]

Yep, that was a tough one for me in the beginning!

[@DrJohnPollard]

Good stuff. Very practical and down to earth.

[@WPMinute]

🙏

[@liznewmanwellness]

I have version 5.6 wordpress...I read that gutenberg needs to be PHP to use in WP 5.6 or higher?? What does all this mean and how do I do it? TY

[@srceko]

I'd like to learn more about plugins you're using and why. Eg. What's you're take on Jetpack? Did you have good experience with it?

[@shahmi94]

How can i view and edit a page without opening new tab, just stay at the back end with all other wordpress sidebars? Every time i click edit page it will open a dedicated tab for it.

[@pahtashow]

Do you have a video for building home page ? I need an info structure of home page (agency)

[@mrkoetje]

Selecting elements can also be done by using the TAB key. so for instance: if I click on a columns and I want to select the row, I can press TAB first and then shift tab to go back to the row. Its not great to use tab first but it must be done in order to activate this shift tab. just my 2 cents

[@WPMinute]

Thanks for the tip!

[@tuulaarelahti7763]

Thanks for the excellent tutorial!!!

[@HugeMasi]

Hi, Thanks for the good tips! I would love to put them to the test ... but I have a problem ... I have created a few pages with Gutenberg already and I have also installed the standalone plugin which is version 9.0.0 atm. But my Gutenberg editor looks more like a openoffice page than this sleek editor you're running how and why? is it because I have tu BUY Gutenberg to have its full potential or am I just doing something completely wrong? I can't create blocks or paragraphs, I have no "big three" I my upper left corner ... just a "Word-ish" kind thing with text and images I one go

[@HugeMasi]

Please help :)))

[@HugeMasi]

AHA! I Found it! Settings -> Writing -> Block editor. YESSSS ! Finally I've been using Visual Composer because I didn't think that Gutenberg was able todo all that, but it's been a quite buggy and annoying journey, Gutenberg FTW !

[@HugeMasi]

Now I have new problem though... 😅The block editor is cool and all that.. but for formatting text ? I mean besides Bold, Italic and Link? I know I can change font size and color/Backgroundcolor in the menu to the right under block... But if I want to change the font of a paragraph and the spacing in-between the lines of paragraph what to do then ?

[@scotimages]

Really useful. Many thanks

[@cindyjiang9552]

Does everyone install the Gutenberg plugin? I noticed it's only a two-star review plugin, plus Gutenberg should be with wp installation. This is very confusing.

[@Meinungsmacher]

A good UI is selfexplaining... no one would ever need this kind of video :D I develop a plugin for gutenberg... that thing has so much deep problems... updated block structure destroys blocks so that you can't use them anymore... the gutenberg developer in github says... that's what we want... wrahhhhhh

[@WPMinute]

Haha yeah totally. I do feel like it’s getting better, just slow goings.

[@MarkMilligan73]

Great tips.

[@EdenSocial]

I notice when I click image, I don’t have option to make image round or add border. Do these options vary by theme?

[@Critterles]

The video showed an answer to your question.

[@techcanyon411]

Does Gutenberg works like a page builder and is like WP is forcing it on everyone to learn it.

[@WPMinute]

It does act like a page builder but arguably not as powerful as elementor or the others. It is the default option shipping With Wordpress l, but you can disable it at least for now.

[@kevinkovadia]

very good

[@harrisonwintergreen1147]

Tip 1 should be "move to another website." Wordpress has lost their minds with this one, it's baffling and counter-intuitive and complicated

[@WPMinute]

I think it’s getting better, but it’s going to take some time. What would you switch to?

[@LeslieLanagan]

Following this thread because I would also like to know where you'd go. For me, Gutenberg is a disaster. It's got some good features for non-coders. I particularly like the drop cap for the first paragraph. However, even when I create a custom HTML block, I still can't get an image to do padding, text wrap, etc. It's just the easiest way to drive an HTML/CSS coder insane.