WordPress Full Site Editing with Gutenberg

WordPress 5.0 included Gutenberg as a standard feature. Gutenberg was the name given to the new block editor that took the place of the classic WYSIWYG editor that had been in use from the beginning of WordPress.

When it comes to creating content for your WordPress posts and pages, Gutenberg is the editor of choice. Header blocks, picture blocks, and text blocks are all available. And there are blocks for just about everything else you may want to put on a website. Drag and drop blocks onto and around the editor to create your posts and pages. WordPress themes control other parts of your site, such as the header and footer areas, as you write the content for your web pages. This is how your theme works.

But, with WordPress 5.9, Gutenberg received its most significant enhancement yet: full site editing! FSE is a common abbreviation, but what does it mean?

You may now update and create the headers and footers for your website using the same block editor (Gutenberg) that you’ve been using for your text. So you design the top of the page, the bottom of the page, and the center of the page. As a result, you now have complete control over the appearance of your website. That’s what Full Site Editing entails.

This course is intended to rapidly bring you up to speed with WordPress Full Site Editing.

This course includes the following topics:

• A primer on Gutenberg and the fundamentals of full-site editing.
• A look at the Gutenberg editor in detail, including a look at some of the most essential blocks.
• Follow along as we develop a simple theme that is compatible with full site editing.
• We’ll make all of the necessary templates and template pieces for the theme to work.
• This section of the course is designed to emphasize the concept that web pages are controlled by templates and to demonstrate which templates govern which aspects of your site. You’ll reinforce the fundamental ideas of Full Site Editing by following along and designing this theme for yourself, and you’ll know which templates you need to add or edit to modify the appearance of the posts, pages, archives pages, search pages, 404 pages, and so on.
• We’ll take a look at WordPress 5.9’s default FSE-enabled template.
• It’s called Twenty Twenty Two, and it comes with a variety of templates.
• With the information you’ve received so far in the course, you’ll feel comfortable beginning with this theme (or any other FSE-enabled theme) and altering it to make your site appear exactly as you want it to.
• We’ll look at making custom templates for certain articles, pages, or areas of your site, as well as making a basic landing page template.

By the conclusion of the course, you’ll be confident enough to handle the design of your own website, including the header, footer, and content, using Gutenberg. You’ll be well on your way to becoming an expert in full site editing.