Hi, there seems to be some confusion regarding Gutenberg, particularly among,new members and those with little or no experience of building websites. There are various ways to create your posts and pages in Gutenberg. In Part 1 of this tutorial I will attempt to illustrate how to create posts or pages using the Visual Editor.

First, may I say I am no great fan of Gutenberg, personally I rate it 2/10. It's over-complicated and still uses many of the features in pre-Gutenberg, mainly the Visual Editor and the Text Editor, now, for some unknown reason, renamed Code Editor.

For those who haven't installed the Classic Editor, and reverted back to pre-Gutenberg and have updated to Gutenberg, did you know that the Visual Editor and renamed Code Editor are embedded in Gutenburg, there's no need to install them.

While the Visual Editor is probably the easiest way to create posts and pages in Gutenberg, it does have its disadvantages: mainly limited fonts and font sizes, and no control over line and paragraph spacing. If you have some knowledge of HTML and CSS these disadvantages are easily overcome. But don't panic, we'll be covering this in a later tutorial.

If you like to try this training, I would recommend creating a test site. That way, if any mistakes are made, they won't affect your published site, and you can delete any mistakes and try agaian if you so wish. Ready to give it a go? Then let's get started!



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Hi Harry,
I don't know when you wrote this, I'm a non-tech person trying to understand... I've spent too many hours trying to re-size an image in Gutenberg. Already my options open up different from those you have, so that complicates things for me. You say (lesson 5) that by clicking on the image in the visual editor I should be able to resize it as I require. But the only control I seem to have is to choose, on the right, Full-size, Large, Medium, Thumbnail. Whatever I click on, the image size stays the same: TOO BIG: The size was right in the Content Manager, but I'm now stuck in WP and really lost... Any ideas for me?
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TheAbiePPlus Premium Plus
You have Kraken installed by default with every WordPress installation; in your block editor, with posts and pages and the right sidebar, you can choose the size of your image from thumbnail to small, medium, large, and actual size.

You click the plus icon, then the image. You insert one from your media library and choose the size.

I hope you can manage it.
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