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Category: Block

01 Nov
Block

Block category: Common

The Common category includes the following blocks: Paragraph, image, headings, list, gallery, quote, audio, cover, video. The paragraph block is the default block type.  It should not have any alignment of any kind. It should just flow like you would normally expect. Nothing fancy. Just straight up text, free flowing, with love. This paragraph is left aligned. This italic paragraph is right aligned. Neither of these paragraphs care about politics, but this one is bold, medium sized and has a drop cap. This paragraph is centered. This paragraph prefers Jazz over Justin Timberlake. It also uses the small font size. This paragraph has something important to say:  It has a large font size, which defaults to 36px. The huge text size defaults to 46px, but the s…


01 Nov
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01 Nov
Block

Block category: Embeds

This post tests various embed blocks: https://twitter.com/WordPress/status/1057136472321613824 Twitter,  wide width https://youtu.be/ex8fMxXJDJw YouTube https://www.facebook.com/6427302910/posts/10156380423617911/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BpmueLLgEn_/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1hcxphic7p9e2 https://wordpress.tv/2018/10/14/kjell-reigstad-allan-cole-how-we-made-our-first-gutenberg-powered-theme/ WordPress TV, full width


01 Nov
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01 Nov
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Block category: Widgets

The shortcode widget: The Archive Widget: The same Archive widget but as a dropdown: The Category widget block has an additional option for showing category hierarchies: The Latest Comments widget can display or hide the avatars, the date, and the comment excerpt: Here is an example of the Comments widget with all the options disabled. The number of comments has been reduced to two. And here is the Latest Posts widget in the list view, with dates: Grid view, now sorted from A -Z. You can also change the number of columns used to display the latest posts. The block below only displays posts from the Block category: Search widget: Tag Cloud widget: RSS Feed widget:


01 Nov
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01 Nov
Block

Block category: Layout Elements

The Layout Elements category includes the following blocks: Group, Button, Columns, Media & Text, separator, spacer, read more, and page break. This group block has a light green background color. A button The read more block should be right below this text, but only on list pages of themes that show the full content. It won't show on the single page or on themes showing excerpts. The columns: Column two. Column three. Column four. Media &Text For displaying media and text next to each other. By default, the media is to the left. This time our block is full width, and the image is to the right. The background color is a pale blue.  Test to make sure that the editor and the front match. To test the Stack on mobile sett…


01 Nov
Donkey · 1 min read
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01 Nov
Block

Block category: Formatting

The formatting category includes the following blocks: The code block starts with <!-- wp:code --> <?php echo 'Hello World'; ?> The classic block can have almost anything in it. a heading The custom HTML block lets you put HTML that isn't configured like blocks in it. (this div has a width of 45%) The preformatted block.The Road Not TakenRobert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both (\_/) And be one traveler, long I stood (='.'=) And looked down one as far as I could (")_(") To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, |\_/| Because it was grassy and wanted wear; / @ @ \ Though as for that the passing there ( > º < …


01 Nov
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