WP newbie this week. Loaded 5.8 on Monday, 5.9 on Tuesday. Whoa, I gasped, what's up? Well, truth be told, you are - up to the task, indeed, of explaining things elegantly, minimally, clearly. Triple thanks. Your words, voice, and faint piano jazz are superbly helpful. Cheers!
I am building an E-commerce website and just came across your video..At first I wasn't sure if Gutenberg was the right choice to build my woo commerce website but going through your video now has helped clear my doubts.amazing video, great presentation. Thank you so much, looking forward for more of your contents 😄
Excellent overview of how Gutenberg works and how you can use it. Simple, clear presentation of all the steps you need to take in order to create a post/page. Well worth watching.
This is an excellent tutorial in more ways than one. Combined with the comprehensive index, it takes you directly to a task without any repetition or rambling. Anyone wanting to develop decent TH-cam tutorials on any subject should watch this tutorial and use a similar style. I learned more in the past 30 minutes than I've done in three weeks. Excellent!
I'm new to WP and was a bit bewildered, staring at page-builder after page-builder, struggling to see how all the moving parts fit together. What an amazing breath of fresh air your video is, Jamie. So straightforward that I am now coming to the belief that I simply don't need a page-builder. Your video made me feel instantly comfortable with exactly how to develop a day-to-day workflow in WP. Absolutely excellent!
@@jamiewp I do now have one question if you can find time, Jamie. I decided to use Gutenberg and began my search for a theme. Upon looking at a list of themes (most paid), they all seem to offer functionality that appears almost identical to a plugin such as Elementor. I'm confused. I like to keep things simple, and am happy to edit using Gutenberg how you demonstrated in your video. Any advice would be a huge help? - Patrick
Thank you so much for assembling all the info we need to know. My client wanted me to work on this mode; I had no idea about this editor. But you appeared as my savior. You saved my time; I am grateful for it. Thanks for the great work, and best of luck with your future endeavor.
This tutorial is a very well constructed online and seamless Gutenberg presentation ... Jamie Marsland has nailed it with his pleasant soft voice-over and focused style that will serve anyone considering the workings surrounding Gutenberg. An absolute treasure to continually refer too. [ Bruce - M.E.N.].
Of course depending on your background, but this video has helped me a lot. Would have saved me weeks of puzzling and trying if I had seen your video earlier. Short, powerful, clear and to the point! Will definitely share this info with a lot of people, thank you so much
Your videos have been incredibly helpful to me with Wordpress. Great content that is hard to find. Thank you! Love watching your videos and learning so much.
Thanks for this great video tutorial! Clear and concise. I have put off using this as my theme was great and I really had no need for it. I have had to change themes as it's no longer supported, and I figured it was about time to learn......there are so many tuts out there, I wish I'd found yours first!
This is AMAZING! Well presented - to the point. After using classic for years, Gutenberg has gotten me to doubt my abilities. It's been a struggle. Thank you so much!!
Having spent much of the afternoon trying to get used to Gutenberg, I found this a very informative video, with excellent presentation and a logical sequence. I enjoyed the background music, gently playing as the video went on - my only disappointment was that a waiter hadn't turned up with a Dry Martini by the end!
OMG! Seems I've always had the block editor on Fullscreen Mode and I felt lost and bewildered without the sidebar. You've enlightened me sir, much appreciated!
I have been struggling to see the point of Gutenberg. This video however is very helpful and goes someway to helping me make sense of the block editor. I was never a big fan of the "classic" editor. Thanks for taking the time to make the video. 👌👌
Excellent tutorial. I really appreciate the hard work you put into making your videos and the way in which you present the information. You have a very pleasant demeanor. I'm looking forward to your deep-dive into WP 5.9. This video gave me a good head start.
You make it look so easy. I am still fighting the no post excerpt bug. Can you tell me what the post conditions must be to have them show up in a page?
Great explanations. I struggle with deciding my own workflow : should I prebuild out totally with placeholders? Or take the time at each content piece step to find exactly what is needed. Decisions. Decisions.
Nice content. I would like a video ONLY talking about email optin forms and how to place them on page-on/in a blog and most important how to add them into the sidebar.
Wow best tutorial on GB I have seen thank you! I will soon have to move to using Gutenbert for my blogs and podcasts. A few questions... 1. I do a podcast and use Bluberry Powerpress. I have to a command at the start of a podcast post. Do I just create a small block and put the text for Powerpress in it, or do I do something different than that? 2. I am not sure how I set up the Blog or Podcast Title using Gutenberg. Is there a specific block for this, or do I use one of the available blocks? 3. Finally, not yet sure how I change text colors within a block. Often I use at least one different text color for some of the text within a paragraph. Thanks for the help. Using Gutenberg now seems a lot easier than I expected it to be, because of your video.
Thank you for one of the most straightforward and comprehensive tutorials on Gutenberg. I've been making the painful transition from WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver to WordPress and your tutorial made all the difference. Question: Which block outline plug-in were you using? I installed Editor Block Outline and received nothing but errors. Thanks
@@jamiewp I honestly don't remember, but I tried to activate it a few times. All I got was a white screen and a text bubble with three options. None of them resulted in anything positive and I quickly deactivated and deleted it. I must add that I've had a few issues with plugins/themes not functioning properly, so I guess it's par for the course. Once I installed a theme - without activation - and it broke the site. I had to do a restore. Thank goodness I did a backup shortly before the install. My learning curve with WordPress has been a trial by fire. Thus, my excitement in discovering your channel. Thanks again for some great content. Your clarity in explaining the various steps is exemplary. My best to you.
Hey, thanks for putting a lot into layman terms. I had a website designed for me and now he has disappeared and I have no idea how to change the look of my site. It looks ok but some of the writing isn't sitting right and no matter what I can't get it to look right. I have 2 pictures with writing underneath but one block of writing is lower than the other and makes the page look out of sync, I've tried everything like backup, enter and even putting spaces between them but it will not change. Any ideas ??
thanks for details video. I searched many many videos on block... but no one is teaching how to create website home page header with navigation. Do you have any video on it? The showcase library has awesome websites made with block.
I'm trying to figure out which extra plugin you installed, as for block editor. jamie, can you point me in the right direction? Cheers (edit) perhaps this is a bit vague, but what I mean is the extra thingy you installed, what you talk about in the beginning
Thanks for all the informative videos, I have been binge watching WP videos. I'm trying to get back into WP. By background was Drupal, until they had the big issue with all the drupal sites getting wacked. I had a few really cool sites where people could add data and post it. When Drupal sites started crashing I lost around 25 websites, and due to the amount of time it would take to fix them in drupal, I just let them sit idle. Now I am trying to figure this out with WP on the cheap or free if I can. Get my entrepreneurial mojo going again, because I have really good ideas for some community sites and the domains to back them up. So your videos one has motivated me to get out there and jump back into the game after seven years lol I do have a few questions that would help me if you or anyone else has a few minutes it would be greatly appreciated. Q1. On the back end to get the framework in it looks like I need WP, ACF Q2 What is the best free way ( or cheapest plugin for multiple domain use) to Present the custom fields on the custom single post pages? Q3 What is the best free way ( or cheapest plugin for multiple domain use) Visitor front end to add some custom fields to a post type? This will keep me from buying elementor just for the dynamic data access. Which seems pointless if I want to lean back away from page builders to blocks I found a new tool I love for spinning up WP sites locally on IOS "Local Sites". I can now watch a video and locally spin up a wp site to test the plugins, then delete it when I am done. I don't remember which channel I saw it on, but the software is free. It works well and maybe you could do a video on that for everyone thanks again, Roger.
Great Video as always. Putting the toolbar at the top is good but it has an issue. You can't seem to drag/move a block when it's at the top. The toolbar for the block also doesn't allow moving up or down if it's in a column or group so you can't move it all the way up or down. Sometime moving a block around the page causes the page to move up and down and you have to just drop it and then move using the arrows to get it where you want.
Awesome video.. so informative and knowledgable.. Thanks for the effort of making this video. Can you show how to enable outline aroung the block as you show in video?
Yes, this was helpful. I easily understood the block process because I learned DOS way back when (1980s) and associated it with a file cabinet with files. So that part was easy. And being a Wix user for so long almost everything else looked easy too. But what I don't get is why I am not seeing this block process with my template. I installed Gutenberg plug-in but its not working with my template. I open Glutenberg and I get the demo page not my site to fix like in your migrate video. When I first installed WP I followed another YT video and deleted all plugins and installed what they were promoting (elementor) I have since deleted that. Did I maybe delete a plugin that I needed? I'm so confused and so many videos later and frustrated. HELP Please.
Hi Jamie. To me sync'd patterns / re-usable blocks feels like a wasted opportunity, There's a good use case for creating sync'd blocks where the *structure* is controlled centrally but we could edit the *content* such as text & images wherever the block was used, without affecting the "sync master" or indeed pushing the edited content to all other instances where the block is used. For consistency & maintenance, who wouldn't want say a common section design as a sync'd block, use it everywhere but be able to manage its *structure* in one location. However we can't do that because if we used the sync'd block on a home page and edited its text for example - that text would be sent to every other instance of the block and indeed back to the master. Figma's "components" seems similar to sync'd blocks, but in Figma we're able to override content wherever a component is used, yet have the power of managing structure in one place. What do you say? :-)
I'm switching from Divi. First challenge is I would like a fullwidth Image Header that maintains it's aspect ratio from one device to another... Ideas ?
I think you'd need to use the cover block, but add some media queries to use a different background image on mobile (but I'll have a think). Can you share the divi example page?
Excellent video, full of useful stuff, but the one question I've not seen answered is how do I associate a template with a page. I have created a header template part, and a footer template part, followed by a Page template incorporating them. I then designed a page and expected that when viewing it I would see my design neatly inserted between header and footer. No such luck; the header and footer are there, but there's no sign of the actual page content. I might have expected to see the page without the header and footer, but not the other way round. There must be some setting I've missed but I've not found it. Any ideas?
@@jamiewp It just gets better and better, Jamie. Thanks for that tip, during which I discovered I could play with the Page Title as well. It prompts me to suggest a brief video on pulling together these items ranging from Template Parts all the way through to a completed page/post. If you've already done one, I must have missed it!
I have looked everywhere and can't find a way to make entire rows clickable. I tried Grouping the elements but that didn't give me a linking option.... any ideas ?....thanks in advance
@@jamiewp ...I have a series of 50/50 rows. Left half is a still frame from a video, the right has a bit of text and a Button linked to the video the row refers to. On Desktop and Tablet the button is easy to use. On Cell the button doesn't seem as responsive and usually has to be clicked twice to initiate the link. I figured if the whole row was clickable it would simplify the process of getting the viewer to the video page....I hope that my explanation is clear enough to understand.
@@tomfraser3086 yup makes sense 👍 The button seems the way to go to me, i'd be interested to see it to try and understand why it's not quite working as expected. Is it the core Gutenberg buttons block?
I tried this reusable blocks thing with a form with links and it didn't work-several links to where a person could buy my book and received a squished blank block of nothing.
That's quite an old tutorial - you can find it by clicking on the 3 dots in the top right of your screen (in preferences) here's a pic that shows it www.pootlepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/screely-1714732907739.png
Hey there and I have a question, do you have any updated info, this seems to not match what I am trying to learn today. It is a great video but it has change over the past couple years. Thanks for the videos I am watching them all to get all that I can.
Great instructor. Do you have a favorite block builder and editor? I want to build a site for selling items. I would love to know your opinion. I really don't want to start from scratch.
@@jamiewp It might be the Virtue theme. It required some block editing plug-in afterwards. Thought, I deactivated it and the toolbar was still not present on top. It seems like I can't have a top toolbar using that theme.
The best video about Gutenberg!
Thanks so much Denison :) That might just be the best comment about the best video about Gutenberg :)
@@jamiewp eireofldlp
@@jamiewp can you check my question please? because I'm down...
This was by far the best tutorial of Gutenberg I've seen so far!
super thanks Helena 😀
This is by far the best guide on Gutemberg I've ever seen. Ever!
Jamie gives the best Gutenberg how-to I have seen. Fantastic, and will transform my website.
This has become my goto channel for Gutenburg tutorials ....Excellent presentations Jamie! Cheers!
That's great to hear -thank you , thank you 🙏
WP newbie this week. Loaded 5.8 on Monday, 5.9 on Tuesday. Whoa, I gasped, what's up? Well, truth be told, you are - up to the task, indeed, of explaining things elegantly, minimally, clearly. Triple thanks. Your words, voice, and faint piano jazz are superbly helpful. Cheers!
Great to hear , thanks Dale 👍
Ok it’s official - IN MY OPINION - for Gutenberg this guy is essential viewing. Terrific teacher.
keeping the left menu and offing fullscreen was SO HELPFUL!! Thank You Jamie!
Glad it helped!
Another excellent video! Will certainly be recommending this to others who wish to learn about Gutenberg.
thank you Simon
Great stuff indeed. Imagine the time we would all save if every TH-cam tutorial were this concise.
Thank you 🙏
People make this so difficult when it is so simple! And you just proved it. Thank you so much.
Thank you , that's great to hear
Just the right amount of detail to introduce the block editor and its concepts. Thank you!
I am building an E-commerce website and just came across your video..At first I wasn't sure if Gutenberg was the right choice to build my woo commerce website but going through your video now has helped clear my doubts.amazing video, great presentation. Thank you so much, looking forward for more of your contents 😄
Excellent overview of how Gutenberg works and how you can use it. Simple, clear presentation of all the steps you need to take in order to create a post/page. Well worth watching.
thanks Terence 😀
This is an excellent tutorial in more ways than one. Combined with the comprehensive index, it takes you directly to a task without any repetition or rambling. Anyone wanting to develop decent TH-cam tutorials on any subject should watch this tutorial and use a similar style. I learned more in the past 30 minutes than I've done in three weeks. Excellent!
I'm new to WP and was a bit bewildered, staring at page-builder after page-builder, struggling to see how all the moving parts fit together. What an amazing breath of fresh air your video is, Jamie. So straightforward that I am now coming to the belief that I simply don't need a page-builder. Your video made me feel instantly comfortable with exactly how to develop a day-to-day workflow in WP. Absolutely excellent!
Wonderful, that's so lovely to hear. Thanks Patrick 😀
@@jamiewp I do now have one question if you can find time, Jamie.
I decided to use Gutenberg and began my search for a theme. Upon looking at a list of themes (most paid), they all seem to offer functionality that appears almost identical to a plugin such as Elementor.
I'm confused. I like to keep things simple, and am happy to edit using Gutenberg how you demonstrated in your video. Any advice would be a huge help? - Patrick
@@ralfison check out kadence, blocksy, generate press - all free versions should be fine - also we have a theme called 18tags which is worth a look
Thank you so much Jamie. That was the best Gutenberg tutorial I have seen so far. Kudos!!
Thank you so much for assembling all the info we need to know. My client wanted me to work on this mode; I had no idea about this editor. But you appeared as my savior. You saved my time; I am grateful for it. Thanks for the great work, and best of luck with your future endeavor.
that's great to hear 👍
Finally some good content on Gutenberg. So well presented. Thank you so much!
Wow! I'm impressed. Your demo is so clear and straight. Thanks
thank you - that's great to hear
Outstanding overview of the core blocks and how to customize.
Thanks so much Gerald - this one took a few days to put together :)
thank you ;)
This tutorial is a very well constructed online and seamless Gutenberg presentation ... Jamie Marsland has nailed it with his pleasant soft voice-over and focused style that will serve anyone considering the workings surrounding Gutenberg. An absolute treasure to continually refer too. [ Bruce - M.E.N.].
thanks so much Bruce :)
Of course depending on your background, but this video has helped me a lot. Would have saved me weeks of puzzling and trying if I had seen your video earlier. Short, powerful, clear and to the point! Will definitely share this info with a lot of people, thank you so much
Thank you so much for your kind words
Your videos have been incredibly helpful to me with Wordpress. Great content that is hard to find. Thank you! Love watching your videos and learning so much.
Thank you so much 🙏
This is the best blocks tutorial I have found. Well done, and thank you.
Thank you so much 🙏
GOLD 🥇Moving from Classic to Blocks, this is a must video. Love the Editor Block Outline plugin, along with the Block Patterns directory 👍 Thank you.
Thanks Nigel - good luck in your journey to Blocks
Reading about Gutenberg since a week but this was by far the best tutorial. Thanks
that's great to hear - thanks Artur 😀
you are a wonderful teacher. thank you. people like you make teaching and learning a pleasure
thank you so much 🙏
Even though this guide has been out there for a while.....still very useful information...thank you Jamie!
thanks Martyn, tha's great to hear 😀
Thank you for this video, I was searching for a long time for the Gutenberg WordPress tutorial.
Thanks for this great video tutorial! Clear and concise. I have put off using this as my theme was great and I really had no need for it. I have had to change themes as it's no longer supported, and I figured it was about time to learn......there are so many tuts out there, I wish I'd found yours first!
Glad it helped 😀
This is AMAZING! Well presented - to the point. After using classic for years, Gutenberg has gotten me to doubt my abilities. It's been a struggle. Thank you so much!!
that's great to hear - thank you for taking the time to comment 🙏
Very good tutorial, paced extremely well and the piano is calming for my soul.
thank you 😀
Thanks man. I was out of webdesign loop for several years and this was a great reintroduction!
Cheers Peter :)
A super helpful video.
Thanks for sharing!
~an American in Korea
Thanks Robert 👍
Awesome stuff Jamie. And thanks for the pleasant music.
So simply explained! So easy to follow! Great Video!
Thank you - it's great you found it useful :)
Thank you for the great video. A live demo of building all sort of pages would be awesome.
Have you seen my website recreation series of videos?
@@jamiewp No, I haven't. I just found you today. I will be checking out your other videos. Thanks.
This is a great overview of Gutenberg. Thank you very much for this.
Thanks Hauker, happy it was useful :)
Just wanted to say thanks for the clear explanation and useful videos you put on your channel . Great job . 👍🙏
thank you :)
Figured it out! All in settings. My ignorance is driving me nuts! Thanks for your support. kaw
Having spent much of the afternoon trying to get used to Gutenberg, I found this a very informative video, with excellent presentation and a logical sequence.
I enjoyed the background music, gently playing as the video went on - my only disappointment was that a waiter hadn't turned up with a Dry Martini by the end!
love it tks for the great comment and so pleased to hear it was useful
OMG! Seems I've always had the block editor on Fullscreen Mode and I felt lost and bewildered without the sidebar. You've enlightened me sir, much appreciated!
Great to hear it was helpful Justin :)
Excellent video Jamie, thanks for the awesome overview.
I have been struggling to see the point of Gutenberg. This video however is very helpful and goes someway to helping me make sense of the block editor. I was never a big fan of the "classic" editor. Thanks for taking the time to make the video. 👌👌
Excellent tutorial. I really appreciate the hard work you put into making your videos and the way in which you present the information. You have a very pleasant demeanor. I'm looking forward to your deep-dive into WP 5.9. This video gave me a good head start.
Thank you Keith 🙏
great work Jamie! My favorite trick was the paragraph to column layout
Thanks Michael 👍
Great video - you’ve demystified Blocks for me. Thanks
tks , that's great to hear
You make it look so easy. I am still fighting the no post excerpt bug. Can you tell me what the post conditions must be to have them show up in a page?
Thank you very much for this really ULTIMATE GUIDE!
Glad it was helpful Julio 👍
Thanks Jamie. Helpful beyond measure.
Fab, thanks Mike 👍
Thank you so much. It is a great video. I subscribed and will definitely watch your other videos.
Because of this video, I finally understand Gutenberg, and yeah it's great
Thank you -- that's great to hear
Fantastic video on Gutenberg. Very well explained. Congrats! Are you planning to do a video on Gutenberg website templates? Thank you.
Yes I’ve done a few of Gutenberg site editing and templates- in fact I released one today 😀
Great explanations. I struggle with deciding my own workflow : should I prebuild out totally with placeholders? Or take the time at each content piece step to find exactly what is needed. Decisions. Decisions.
I am wondering the same thing
Nice content. I would like a video ONLY talking about email optin forms and how to place them on page-on/in a blog and most important how to add them into the sidebar.
Excellent Jame! Thanks a lot.
thank you
Thanks so much for making this video which was exactly what I was looking for
Great 👍
Wow best tutorial on GB I have seen thank you! I will soon have to move to using Gutenbert for my blogs and podcasts. A few questions...
1. I do a podcast and use Bluberry Powerpress. I have to a command at the start of a podcast post. Do I just create a small block and put the text for Powerpress in it, or do I do something different than that?
2. I am not sure how I set up the Blog or Podcast Title using Gutenberg. Is there a specific block for this, or do I use one of the available blocks?
3. Finally, not yet sure how I change text colors within a block. Often I use at least one different text color for some of the text within a paragraph.
Thanks for the help. Using Gutenberg now seems a lot easier than I expected it to be, because of your video.
Great stuff - thanks for putting this out there.
Very nice information supply, thank you.
Thanks, Jamie. Super helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for one of the most straightforward and comprehensive tutorials on Gutenberg. I've been making the painful transition from WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver to WordPress and your tutorial made all the difference. Question: Which block outline plug-in were you using? I installed Editor Block Outline and received nothing but errors. Thanks
Thanks Charles - if i remember i used the outline plugin that you used, what errors were you seeing?
@@jamiewp I honestly don't remember, but I tried to activate it a few times. All I got was a white screen and a text bubble with three options. None of them resulted in anything positive and I quickly deactivated and deleted it.
I must add that I've had a few issues with plugins/themes not functioning properly, so I guess it's par for the course. Once I installed a theme - without activation - and it broke the site. I had to do a restore. Thank goodness I did a backup shortly before the install. My learning curve with WordPress has been a trial by fire. Thus, my excitement in discovering your channel. Thanks again for some great content. Your clarity in explaining the various steps is exemplary. My best to you.
Just feel like jump into another world from elementor ... this seem great, need to learn again and again...
thanks for this tutorial...
my pleasure
Hey, thanks for putting a lot into layman terms. I had a website designed for me and now he has disappeared and I have no idea how to change the look of my site. It looks ok but some of the writing isn't sitting right and no matter what I can't get it to look right. I have 2 pictures with writing underneath but one block of writing is lower than the other and makes the page look out of sync, I've tried everything like backup, enter and even putting spaces between them but it will not change. Any ideas ??
Hi Paul, can you share a link to the page?
thanks for details video. I searched many many videos on block... but no one is teaching how to create website home page header with navigation. Do you have any video on it? The showcase library has awesome websites made with block.
What is the name of the block outlines plug-in you use? I haven't used WP in a couple years so you're a real help!
Wonderful. Absolute genius
THANK YOU 🙏
Amazing guide, thank you!!!
Thanks Andreas
I was looking for a video like this for more than a year
glad you found it :)
@@jamiewp i was looking for all keywords i could imagine except Gutenberg, (full website using only blocks,zero plugin website wordpress etc etc)
@@iliaskyvos953 ah interesting, glad you found it in the end (i'll add some of your searches into my description)
I'm trying to figure out which extra plugin you installed, as for block editor. jamie, can you point me in the right direction? Cheers (edit) perhaps this is a bit vague, but what I mean is the extra thingy you installed, what you talk about in the beginning
Here you go wordpress.org/plugins/editor-block-outline/
@@jamiewp Thanks!
Hello great tutorial for a beginner - you talk a bit abut the the block outline plug-in can you tell me which one you use many thanks
Thanks for all the informative videos, I have been binge watching WP videos.
I'm trying to get back into WP. By background was Drupal, until they had the big issue with all the drupal sites getting wacked. I had a few really cool sites where people could add data and post it. When Drupal sites started crashing I lost around 25 websites, and due to the amount of time it would take to fix them in drupal, I just let them sit idle.
Now I am trying to figure this out with WP on the cheap or free if I can. Get my entrepreneurial mojo going again, because I have really good ideas for some community sites and the domains to back them up. So your videos one has motivated me to get out there and jump back into the game after seven years lol I do have a few questions that would help me if you or anyone else has a few minutes it would be greatly appreciated.
Q1. On the back end to get the framework in it looks like I need WP, ACF
Q2 What is the best free way ( or cheapest plugin for multiple domain use) to Present the custom fields on the custom single post pages?
Q3 What is the best free way ( or cheapest plugin for multiple domain use) Visitor front end to add some custom fields to a post type?
This will keep me from buying elementor just for the dynamic data access. Which seems pointless if I want to lean back away from page builders to blocks
I found a new tool I love for spinning up WP sites locally on IOS "Local Sites". I can now watch a video and locally spin up a wp site to test the plugins, then delete it when I am done. I don't remember which channel I saw it on, but the software is free. It works well and maybe you could do a video on that for everyone thanks again, Roger.
Great Listen!
Gutenberg, Jamie and Coffee!
In a quiet house!
Build a Strong Day!
Thank you 🙏
Thank you for the great video. How do you get the block red outline to appear? I do not see such an option on my end. Thanks again
Hi , that’s a plugin I was using to help demo
Hi Sir! Thanks for this video. Is there an option for us to edit while using a tablet or mobile view?
Did I need this! How about a video for Mail Poet forms next?
Great Video as always. Putting the toolbar at the top is good but it has an issue. You can't seem to drag/move a block when it's at the top. The toolbar for the block also doesn't allow moving up or down if it's in a column or group so you can't move it all the way up or down. Sometime moving a block around the page causes the page to move up and down and you have to just drop it and then move using the arrows to get it where you want.
Hi Stuart, good point. I personally would use the new drag and drop list view for moving blocks (once wp 5.9 is released next week)
@@jamiewp Great Idea! - Didn't think about that!
Awesome video.. so informative and knowledgable.. Thanks for the effort of making this video.
Can you show how to enable outline aroung the block as you show in video?
Thanks - thats a plugin i find useful for demos called Block Outline
Very insightful. Thanks for this video.
thanks Manuel
so helpful and well-done. and relaxing. thank you.
thank you 🙏
Yes, this was helpful. I easily understood the block process because I learned DOS way back when (1980s) and associated it with a file cabinet with files. So that part was easy. And being a Wix user for so long almost everything else looked easy too. But what I don't get is why I am not seeing this block process with my template. I installed Gutenberg plug-in but its not working with my template. I open Glutenberg and I get the demo page not my site to fix like in your migrate video. When I first installed WP I followed another YT video and deleted all plugins and installed what they were promoting (elementor) I have since deleted that. Did I maybe delete a plugin that I needed? I'm so confused and so many videos later and frustrated. HELP Please.
What theme are you using ?
Hi Jamie. To me sync'd patterns / re-usable blocks feels like a wasted opportunity,
There's a good use case for creating sync'd blocks where the *structure* is controlled centrally but we could edit the *content* such as text & images wherever the block was used, without affecting the "sync master" or indeed pushing the edited content to all other instances where the block is used.
For consistency & maintenance, who wouldn't want say a common section design as a sync'd block, use it everywhere but be able to manage its *structure* in one location. However we can't do that because if we used the sync'd block on a home page and edited its text for example - that text would be sent to every other instance of the block and indeed back to the master.
Figma's "components" seems similar to sync'd blocks, but in Figma we're able to override content wherever a component is used, yet have the power of managing structure in one place.
What do you say? :-)
Hi Steve, great points - did you see the Partially Sync'd patterns idea - this seems like it would do what you want?
Hi @@jamiewp Hmm.. not sure I did. Is it in this video? Might be time for me to watch it again. Can't have the cats going hungry.
@@steveharmancambridge nope it's not in that video - it isn't available yet, it's being planned by the dev team.
@@jamiewp Perfect, I remain ever-tuned. Thanks for all you do Jamie.
This is extremely helpful, thank you so much! Will 3rd party blocks I download like Kadence Blocks work with these same controls?
Hi, yes they will 😀
I'm switching from Divi. First challenge is I would like a fullwidth Image Header that maintains it's aspect ratio from one device to another... Ideas ?
I think you'd need to use the cover block, but add some media queries to use a different background image on mobile (but I'll have a think). Can you share the divi example page?
Excellent video, full of useful stuff, but the one question I've not seen answered is how do I associate a template with a page.
I have created a header template part, and a footer template part, followed by a Page template incorporating them. I then designed a page and expected that when viewing it I would see my design neatly inserted between header and footer. No such luck; the header and footer are there, but there's no sign of the actual page content. I might have expected to see the page without the header and footer, but not the other way round. There must be some setting I've missed but I've not found it. Any ideas?
Did you add the post content block to the template?
@@jamiewp It just gets better and better, Jamie. Thanks for that tip, during which I discovered I could play with the Page Title as well. It prompts me to suggest a brief video on pulling together these items ranging from Template Parts all the way through to a completed page/post. If you've already done one, I must have missed it!
Cool! Thank you! Very useful video
Great to hear 👍
What a wonderful video. Do More
thanks Joaquim - I'm on the case :)
I have looked everywhere and can't find a way to make entire rows clickable. I tried Grouping the elements but that didn't give me a linking option.... any ideas ?....thanks in advance
Hi Tom, could you give me a little more detail . What's the context of needing to make an entire row a link?
@@jamiewp ...I have a series of 50/50 rows. Left half is a still frame from a video, the right has a bit of text and a Button linked to the video the row refers to. On Desktop and Tablet the button is easy to use. On Cell the button doesn't seem as responsive and usually has to be clicked twice to initiate the link. I figured if the whole row was clickable it would simplify the process of getting the viewer to the video page....I hope that my explanation is clear enough to understand.
@@tomfraser3086 yup makes sense 👍 The button seems the way to go to me, i'd be interested to see it to try and understand why it's not quite working as expected. Is it the core Gutenberg buttons block?
@@jamiewp ....yes Core Blocks. Is there a way for me to privately send you the url
@@tomfraser3086 yup, please send to jamie@pootlepress.com
I tried this reusable blocks thing with a form with links and it didn't work-several links to where a person could buy my book and received a squished blank block of nothing.
Where you using a 3rd party layout block ?
Great video thanks for taking the time to make it
thank you 👍
none of the settings above are on the editor? where is the option for fullscreen mode? outline mode?
That's quite an old tutorial - you can find it by clicking on the 3 dots in the top right of your screen (in preferences) here's a pic that shows it www.pootlepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/screely-1714732907739.png
Hey there and I have a question, do you have any updated info, this seems to not match what I am trying to learn today. It is a great video but it has change over the past couple years. Thanks for the videos I am watching them all to get all that I can.
Great instructor. Do you have a favorite block builder and editor? I want to build a site for selling items. I would love to know your opinion. I really don't want to start from scratch.
I would start with just WordPress and WooCommerce blocks
is there any way I can add a heading paragraph, list, and then paragraph with in one block? please help
Yes just group them 👍
Great Job i just started to put my hands to it
Great to hear 👍
My Toolbar doesn't get to the top when I choose "Top toolbar"?
It just disappears above the block.
Sounds like a plugin conflict - are you using any 3rd party block plugins?
@@jamiewp It might be the Virtue theme. It required some block editing plug-in afterwards. Thought, I deactivated it and the toolbar was still not present on top. It seems like I can't have a top toolbar using that theme.
probably not a great sign tbh@@success4u717
Jumping links in pages with page-end doesnot work the same like you told. You need toe add the page before the anchor
Yup 👍
Is the Gutenberg plugin different from the Gutenberg Companion plugin?
Hi Jim - I’m not sure what the companion plugin is ? Do you have a link?
Awesome! Thank you