Gutenberg blocks

How to Use Gutenberg Blocks Like a Pro

The Gutenberg editor, introduced in WordPress 5.0, revolutionised content creation by providing a block-based editing experience.

What is Gutenberg?

Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned WordPress user, mastering Gutenberg blocks can dramatically enhance your website’s design, functionality, and user engagement.

Here at Yellow Peach, we create bespoke websites tailored to your specific requirements, and based on best practices and processes commonly adopted by modern digital agencies.

We believe a website is more than just an online presence – it’s your brand’s digital cornerstone. It has to stand out, engage with your audience and drive results. But equally it has to provide you with a powerful, flexible and easy-to-use content management system (CMS), enabling you to update and manage your site effortlessly.

WordPress is renowned for its excellent editing experience. We push that further by providing you with the tools to quickly and efficiently create website content by inserting, rearranging, and formatting ‘content blocks’ to create flexible layouts, whilst ensuring your branding, colours and fonts remain locked down.

Understanding the basics of Gutenberg blocks.

Gutenberg blocks are modular elements used to build your WordPress content. Each piece of content, such as a paragraph, image, or video, is a block. Common block types might include service grids, latest news, enquiry forms, image/video galleries, etc.

Before diving into designing and developing the blocks, we’d map out your website information architecture. Knowing where you need different components will streamline the process and guarantee all aspects are covered and a professional looking result is achieved.

Mastering the art of block customisation?

Every block we create in Gutenberg comes with a selection of customisation options that allow you to fine tune its appearance and functionality. These might include:

Typography: Adjust font size, weight, and colour to align with your brand.
Spacing: Use padding and margin controls to add more or less white-space to your page.
Backgrounds: Add colour or images to make sections stand out.

This will enhance the visual appeal of your website and maintain brand consistency.

Creating and using reusable blocks.

Reusable blocks save time and also maintain consistency across your site. For example, we might create a reusable block for a call-to-action (CTA) and insert it wherever needed. The block can be managed and customised centrally, meaning when you want to make an edit, you don’t need to go through every page to update it.

Conclusion.

Gutenberg is constantly evolving. We make sure we stay up to date with the latest WordPress releases to take advantage of any new features and development improvements, ensuring our clients get the maximum benefit from WordPress’ intuitive and flexible Content Management System.

At Yellow Peach, we have extensive experience helping organisations create highly effective websites leveraging the power of WordPress – speak to us today about how we might be able to help you.

Interested in working together?

We’re passionate about the future of WordPress, please get in touch if you’d like to chat about how we can collaborate on your next website project.

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