What New Wealthy Affiliate Members Should Know About WordPress, Gutenberg & GeneratePress

byRobbyofstone

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2 weeks ago

What New Wealthy Affiliate Members Should Know About WordPress, Gutenberg & GeneratePress

I’ve just had one of those light bulb moments.

Even after all this time, I was still a bit unsure about the relationship between GeneratePress, Gutenberg, and WordPress itself. Every time I saw GeneratePress listed as a theme, I backed away — it sounded complicated, and the name made it seem like it might be another version of WordPress entirely. I don't think I ever even clicked to look inside it.

And then there's the Gutenberg Block Editor — or as Batman (Eric Cantu) calls it under his WordPress Wisdom training — the default WordPress editor. Which, to be honest, confused me even more at first. Why not call it Gutenberg Wisdom? Haha.

So, if you’ve ever been scratching your head like I was, here’s the version that finally made sense for me:

WordPress.org = The Engine

This is your foundation. It's the platform your whole site runs on. Pages, posts, plugins, menus, users — it all lives inside here.

And yes, per research I double-checked with Mr Chat, WordPress is open-source and powers over 40% of the entire internet. That's the scale we're talking about, huge!

GeneratePress = The Look (Your Theme)

Now, when I first started looking for themes, I spent hours — honestly, days — trying to find something I liked. But I wasn’t yet informed enough to understand how those choices could impact site speed, layout flexibility, or long-term editing. And I still chose wrong , twice!

GeneratePress kept showing up, but I kept skipping it. Turns out it’s not complicated — it’s just a clean, lightweight theme you install inside WordPress. It controls how your site looks: headers, fonts, spacing, layout.

It doesn’t replace WordPress — it works with it. And the free version is more than enough to get started.

Gutenberg = The Builder

This is the editor built into WordPress by default — and it’s come a long way. You may hear it called the Block Editor, and that’s exactly what it is: instead of typing into one giant textbox, you now build content using blocks — for paragraphs, images, columns, buttons, and more.

You don’t need to write code or mess with shortcodes — it’s all done visually.

In Plain English:

You run your site on WordPress

You pick a theme like GeneratePress to control how it looks

You build your content using Gutenberg, which is already built in

Why It’s So Confusing at First:

Gutenberg looks and feels like a builder, but it isn’t as flashy as Elementor or Divi — or even the more beginner-friendly Beaver Builder, which is known for its visual drag-and-drop style and cartoon beaver branding.

GeneratePress sounds like it might compete with WordPress or Gutenberg — but it doesn’t

The phrase “block themes” and “full site editing” only recently started to mean something for most users, so older posts and training may not explain it clearly

Should You Use Gutenberg?

Yes — especially now.

It’s fast, flexible, and unless you’re going for a very complex layout, you probably won’t need any extra page builders. That means fewer plugins to slow down your site, and fewer costs down the road.

This is why Batman ( Eric Cantu) and others promote it so heavily — and now, I get it.

But if you’re new, and no one explains how these parts fit together, it’s easy to feel like you’ve missed a step or are doing something wrong. Hopefully, this helps clear things up if you've been feeling the same way I was.

Let me know if you’ve had similar “wait, what is that actually for?” moments. We’ve all been there — and once it clicks, everything gets easier.

I hope this is at least helpful to some of you. After all the hours I have put in and still having those “Duh” moments!

Happy Easter to you all

Rob