Editing Website Content
Tips and help for editing your website content in WordPress.
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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
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How to Schedule Posts in the Future
Going off on holiday and want your website to continue to display new content at regular times? With WordPress, it’s quite simple to prepare new website content and then schedule those posts to be published in the future. Once you have written your post and you are ready to publish it, open the settings sidebar
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Website Page Layout Helper Blocks
There are several minor blocks which can be very helpful in enhancing layouts, or meeting specific layout needs. I call these the Layout Helper Blocks. These are More, Page Break, Separator, Spacer […]
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Block Editor – Columns Block
The Columns block can be very useful in helping to create attractive and interesting page layouts. You may choose from a variety of column layouts. Number of columns and column widths can easily be changed later, in the settings. Up to 6 columns are supported natively. The columns block has class wp-block-columns, the inner columns each
