WordPress 5.0 has recently been released and it is now in use on n1fd.org. WordPress 5.0 brings a new content creation editor to WordPress. You may have seen the new editor referred to as Gutenberg on the Internet. Here’s a link to an overview of the new editor.

The new editor makes all of the rich formatting of text and graphics that modern websites can provide much easier to use when creating content. It does this via a concept called Blocks. The new editor creates posts using a series of Blocks.

Blocks are uniquely formatted components of posts such as articles on our Blog. Black can be formatted as text, headings, images, lists, and multimedia elements. You create the content for a post using a series of Blocks. This article uses Paragraph Blocks for text and Image Blocks for pictures.

Most all of the functionality of the old editor is available in Gutenberg. For example, sidebar tabs for both Block options and the familiar Document options are available in tabs on the right sidebar in Gutenberg.

It is easy to get started with the new editor. Here’s a link to an article on how to begin.

For now, n1fd.org will continue to use the Classic Editor as the default for new posts. You can try out Gutenberg by clicking on the Block Editor choice for your post. This option can be found in the Posts section of the backend of n1fd.org. We will probably change over to the new editor as the default for new posts sometime during the next few weeks. In the interim, I hope you’ll give the new editor a try.

Fred, AB1OC