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How to Use the WordPress Pullquote Block

How to Use the WordPress Pullquote Block

September 12, 2022 in WordPress | 1 comment

A pullquote is a small snippet from the article that draws attention. It’s great for adding emphasis to your text or highlighting a phrase. It provides a visual aid to the reader. WordPress has a Pullquote Block designed specifically for this purpose. In this article, we’ll look at the...

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How to Use the WordPress Preformatted Block

How to Use the WordPress Preformatted Block

September 12, 2022 in WordPress | 1 comment

The Preformatted Block displays your text exactly as you type it. This means you can include spaces and line breaks within your text. Knowing how to use the Preformatted Block gives you several advantages such as setting portions of your text apart and creating elements that stand out. Fortunately,...

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How to Use the WordPress Table Block

How to Use the WordPress Table Block

March 15, 2023 in WordPress | 5 comments

The WordPress Table Block allows you to create a table for your posts or pages. This is great for showing tabulated data. It’s easy to use and it can be styled to work with your website’s design. In this article, we’ll look closely at the Table Block. We’ll see how to add it to posts and...

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How to Use the WordPress Gallery Block

How to Use the WordPress Gallery Block

March 7, 2023 in WordPress | 12 comments

Knowing how to use the Image block comes in handy when you want to insert a single media file into a post or page on your WordPress site. However, what if you want to add a collection of photos? You could check out some of WordPress’ popular gallery plugins. Or, you can use the Gallery...

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How to Use the WordPress Heading Block

How to Use the WordPress Heading Block

March 7, 2023 in WordPress | 0 comments

Headings and subheadings are key components of any web page. With headings, you can divide content into easily-digestible sections. Moreover, they provide search engines with critical information about your site. Fortunately, the WordPress Heading block enables you to add headers to posts and pages...

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How to Use the WordPress Image Block

How to Use the WordPress Image Block

December 31, 2022 in WordPress | 0 comments

Using images is one of the simplest yet most effective ways to enhance your WordPress pages and posts. However, if you’re new to using the WordPress Block Editor, you might be a little confused about how to employ the Image block properly. Fortunately, inserting and using the Image block is...

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How to Use the WordPress Paragraph Block

How to Use the WordPress Paragraph Block

September 11, 2022 in WordPress | 4 comments

If there’s one WordPress block you’ll end up using sooner or later, it’s this one. The Paragraph block is at the core of every WordPress blog post you read. It’s very easy to use, and yet it hides some features that you might miss at first glance. In this article,...

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How to Use the WordPress Verse Block

How to Use the WordPress Verse Block

September 12, 2022 in WordPress | 1 comment

The WordPress Verse Block was designed to show text in a versified format. It displays the text without changing your line breaks and spaces. Hitting the Enter key starts the next line instead of beginning a new paragraph. It’s not meant for your normal content. Instead, it’s designed for...

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How to Use the WordPress Twitter Embed Block

How to Use the WordPress Twitter Embed Block

September 22, 2022 in WordPress | 2 comments

The WordPress Twitter embed block lets you embed Twitter posts (i.e., tweets) in your WordPress posts and pages. While this only works for public tweets, it’s helpful to know that you don’t need a Twitter account to use this feature. There are a number of reasons to want to embed a tweet in...

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How to Use the WordPress Embed Block

How to Use the WordPress Embed Block

September 15, 2022 in WordPress | 3 comments

The WordPress embed block lets you embed WordPress posts as cards into your posts or pages. An embedded post will have its own layout and be nestled within your content, wherever you choose. If you were to add an embed block in the middle of your own blog post, it would look something like...

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How to Use the WordPress Classic Block

How to Use the WordPress Classic Block

March 7, 2023 in WordPress | 2 comments

The WordPress Editor‘s Classic Block is intended to help ease the transition between WordPress’s legacy TINYMCE editor and it’s newer block-based editor (known as Gutenberg). When the new editor was introduced into WordPress Core, all posts and pages on an updated website that had...

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How to Resize Blocks in WordPress

How to Resize Blocks in WordPress

March 16, 2023 in WordPress | 0 comments

The Gutenberg Block Editor, introduced officially in WordPress 5.0, gives users the opportunity to fully customize their WordPress content and sites. No longer constrained by the need to create in a WYSIWYG tool like the TinyMCE Classic Editor, Gutenberg provides individual blocks for each element...

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