If you would like to know how to switch/convert your pages/posts that are currently using the Classic Editor to the Block Editor a.k.a Gutenberg, then this tutorial is for you!
You will learn how to activate the native/built-in Block Editor (no plugin required), and how to convert existing pages/posts that are using the Classic Editor to the Block Editor (Gutenberg).
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TheCatherine
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ChrystopherJ
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skmorrow
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I tried that out tonight, on a test website. If I did it right, it looks like that worked. I used a very basic article that didn't have much formatting, but it brought everything over.
Is that the best way to copy/paste from Word, or Google Docs, is by using a Classic Block and converting it? Since I write my content in Word, I need to know how to do this going forward.
The extraneous code that Word brings with it (if you don't use a Classic Block), is that bad for SEO, or speed, or is it just that you have to go back and reformat your content?
Spoken like a true non-coder I am sure :)
Is that the best way to copy/paste from Word, or Google Docs, is by using a Classic Block and converting it? Since I write my content in Word, I need to know how to do this going forward.
The extraneous code that Word brings with it (if you don't use a Classic Block), is that bad for SEO, or speed, or is it just that you have to go back and reformat your content?
Spoken like a true non-coder I am sure :)
ChrystopherJ
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The extra code will also be brought over to WordPress in the Classic Block, unless you use the “Paste as Plain Text” option, as that will remove all formatting. The extra code is bad for SEO and Page Speed, as it includes references to style sheets that do not exist in WordPress.
NERunners77
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Hi Chrystopher, Thanks much for this info above. 'Tis one of the things I love about this platform is every so often, when digging through the bins, I find a gem of a tid-bit like this one.
I don't have many posts out there yet, but they are all varied in how they've evolved. Many times I use dictation to capture my content in editors such as Google Docs, Word etc. and have C/P without "paste as plain text" when putting them into my post for sure.
I have many posts that just seem 'off' when I try to investigate them in my analytics tools but I don't have the experience to know why yet, so items like this always leaving me thinking 'is that it?'.
Is there a way, after the fact, to correct these in my published posts or am I stuck with it, just correcting my process on future posts and moving forward?
Any help/info appreciated.
Regards,
Kerry B.
I don't have many posts out there yet, but they are all varied in how they've evolved. Many times I use dictation to capture my content in editors such as Google Docs, Word etc. and have C/P without "paste as plain text" when putting them into my post for sure.
I have many posts that just seem 'off' when I try to investigate them in my analytics tools but I don't have the experience to know why yet, so items like this always leaving me thinking 'is that it?'.
Is there a way, after the fact, to correct these in my published posts or am I stuck with it, just correcting my process on future posts and moving forward?
Any help/info appreciated.
Regards,
Kerry B.
ChrystopherJ
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You're welcome Kerry :-) They can be corrected, yes. Depending on the length and complexity of the posts, there are various options available. If you want to send me the URL to one of the posts you feel is affected, I can take a look and then advise accordingly.
NERunners77
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Hi Chrystoper, Thanks for your answer and for offering your help.
Below link is a recent post that was created mostly via Google Voice Typing tool in Docs. So then I know I cut and pasted many sections from that temp doc - without using 'paste as plain text'.
Like I said, I've got a few things to work on but having a hard time identifying what they all are and what's truly causing any issues. If I can narrow something down I can get some direction.
If someone were just to say "well, it's just a bad post or poorly constructed, that's why you're not gonna rank with it..." I'd be fine with that answer because that's something I can get better at. But I'm trying to narrow down technical missteps now while I don't have too much out there yet. Then I can at least be confident in my process as I get more content out there.
https://shamrock77sports.com/best-running-belt/
Thanks for any help, I know you're busy.
Kerry B.
Below link is a recent post that was created mostly via Google Voice Typing tool in Docs. So then I know I cut and pasted many sections from that temp doc - without using 'paste as plain text'.
Like I said, I've got a few things to work on but having a hard time identifying what they all are and what's truly causing any issues. If I can narrow something down I can get some direction.
If someone were just to say "well, it's just a bad post or poorly constructed, that's why you're not gonna rank with it..." I'd be fine with that answer because that's something I can get better at. But I'm trying to narrow down technical missteps now while I don't have too much out there yet. Then I can at least be confident in my process as I get more content out there.
https://shamrock77sports.com/best-running-belt/
Thanks for any help, I know you're busy.
Kerry B.
jamesde
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Hi Chrystopher, I have an issue with the block editor that has me stumped. I have asked in the questions section on the WA site but nobody seems to know this. I want to insert an Amazon sitestripe image into a table in the block editor. I can't get it to work. When I try the HTML editor it always throws up an error message. Any ideas?
theericseil
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Hi Chrystopher,
Thanks for the brief tutorial on the block editor.
It helped out a lot as I consider switching over from classic to block. I'll do some testing on some of my posts/pages if I like block better, but it's worth trying out.
Interesting tutorial- well explained and easy to follow. I learned something new today.
Thanks again for the training
Best,
-Eric
Thanks for the brief tutorial on the block editor.
It helped out a lot as I consider switching over from classic to block. I'll do some testing on some of my posts/pages if I like block better, but it's worth trying out.
Interesting tutorial- well explained and easy to follow. I learned something new today.
Thanks again for the training
Best,
-Eric
ChrystopherJ
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You’re welcome Eric :-) As long as you follow Lesson 2’s page to enable users to switch editor, you will be ok and you can choose which one you want for each page/post. Even if you removed the Classic Editor plugin completely, so that you only have the native block editor, the block editor has a Classic Block so you will be ok regardless :-)
Kiranoppa
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Thank you for this tutorial. I don't have the classic editor plugin installed anymore, but I tried if this would work without it. And it did! I have many older posts made with the classic editor, and I tried to edit one. I just clicked ´convert to blocks´ like you instructed, and it worked!
So I just wanted to inform you this seems to work even if you don't have the classic editor plugin installed.
So I just wanted to inform you this seems to work even if you don't have the classic editor plugin installed.
ChrystopherJ
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DBlanchard
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Hey Chrystopher!
I think, that with this training you have almost convinced me to move to the Block Editor.
It seems very stable and user friendly. I went through your training and changed one of my articles to "block editor" and I was able to find my way...
I have been reluctant to change from the classic editor until now...Probably because of habit more than anything else and I didn't want to learn a new method while "the old method" still works good for me.
I have been using WA's Site Content for a few years now (Since it's inception) to write my articles and once I am ready to publish, I send them to Wordpress via Site Content.
Then I use the classic Editor for editing the images and some text. Then I insert an adsense code (where I want it, not where Google wants to put it) by going in the "text editor" of the classic editor.
I see that I can do the same with the "code editor", however the "language" doesn't look quite the same as the text editor. There will be some getting used to there too! Is there any help/training on how to use the new "block language" (if I can call it that) that you know of?
Also, what I do like about Site Content is that I can drag and drop images directly into my article (And choose from millions of royalty-free images within Site Content), set the size right then and there, and when I publish them they are automatically added to my media library.
With Wordpress Block editor, do we still have to add the image to the media library first and then go get it there?
Thanks in advance! 🙂
Denis
I think, that with this training you have almost convinced me to move to the Block Editor.
It seems very stable and user friendly. I went through your training and changed one of my articles to "block editor" and I was able to find my way...
I have been reluctant to change from the classic editor until now...Probably because of habit more than anything else and I didn't want to learn a new method while "the old method" still works good for me.
I have been using WA's Site Content for a few years now (Since it's inception) to write my articles and once I am ready to publish, I send them to Wordpress via Site Content.
Then I use the classic Editor for editing the images and some text. Then I insert an adsense code (where I want it, not where Google wants to put it) by going in the "text editor" of the classic editor.
I see that I can do the same with the "code editor", however the "language" doesn't look quite the same as the text editor. There will be some getting used to there too! Is there any help/training on how to use the new "block language" (if I can call it that) that you know of?
Also, what I do like about Site Content is that I can drag and drop images directly into my article (And choose from millions of royalty-free images within Site Content), set the size right then and there, and when I publish them they are automatically added to my media library.
With Wordpress Block editor, do we still have to add the image to the media library first and then go get it there?
Thanks in advance! 🙂
Denis
ChrystopherJ
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You're welcome Denis :-)
For the AdSense code you will want to add the HTML Block, not the Code Block. So you shouldn't need to learn a new language.
For Images, I add them to the SiteContent Article at the end, then publish to get them into WordPress's Media Library, I then do ALL formatting from within WordPress. You might want to try this approach?
Hope this helps,
Chrystopher
For the AdSense code you will want to add the HTML Block, not the Code Block. So you shouldn't need to learn a new language.
For Images, I add them to the SiteContent Article at the end, then publish to get them into WordPress's Media Library, I then do ALL formatting from within WordPress. You might want to try this approach?
Hope this helps,
Chrystopher
DBlanchard
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Nice! Thanks Chrystopher!
Oh!!! So there are a lot of different components (for lack of another descriptive word) in the block editor to make things easier...
And you still use Site Content, then, when in Wordpress you go with the Block Editor. Humm...That sounds like a plan 🙂
I might just be "converted" then hahaha.
Thanks one more time!
Denis
Oh!!! So there are a lot of different components (for lack of another descriptive word) in the block editor to make things easier...
And you still use Site Content, then, when in Wordpress you go with the Block Editor. Humm...That sounds like a plan 🙂
I might just be "converted" then hahaha.
Thanks one more time!
Denis
ChrystopherJ
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You can leave your default setting in WordPress to Classic Editor, then once published from SiteContent, you can follow the steps in this training to convert it to the Block Editor. I haven't tried publishing from SiteContent to a WordPress site that doesn't have the Classic Editor installed yet, as I only have a few websites here at WA, mainly setup to follow the training step-by-step. But all client websites and sites outside of WA use the Block Editor.
I made an analogy yesterday for Cassi that it's like having a pedal car, then going out to purchase the latest sports cars, only to take the engine out so that it feels like like the pedal car ;-)
I made an analogy yesterday for Cassi that it's like having a pedal car, then going out to purchase the latest sports cars, only to take the engine out so that it feels like like the pedal car ;-)
DBlanchard
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You make an excellent analogy 🙂
Will definitely look into this for my next article...Should be publishing later today!
I'll come back here if I run into a snag!
Will definitely look into this for my next article...Should be publishing later today!
I'll come back here if I run into a snag!
