Gutenberg: The WordPress block editor

- In this first part…of the two-part WordPress Essential Training course,…we're taking a deep dive into content creation,…editing, and publication,…and most of this work will be done…in the new block editor introduced in WordPress 5.0,…code-named Gutenberg.…If you've worked with WordPress or another web publishing…or content management system before,…the block editor is a new and different way…of creating, editing, and managing content…within individual posts and pages,…so we'll spend a fair bit of time in this course…looking at how it works and how to work with it.…

The core idea of the block editor is that every piece…of content within the post or page is a block…with its own properties, features, and abilities.…Take a standard article as an example.…From the top, you have the title and some metadata,…including the author name, publishing date,…and possibly the categories this post was filed under.…Then you have a series of different blocks of content,…some paragraphs, an image with a caption, a pull quote,…