Category: Block Editor

theme.json is a standard WordPress theme configuration file. It enables editor settings, defines design presets, applies styles, and registers selected theme features. WordPress reads it on both editor and frontend requests. The file creates a shared design contract. Themes declare available choices. WordPress turns many declarations into controls and generated CSS. It does not replace…

Full Site Editing lets block themes design an entire WordPress site with blocks. It covers templates, template parts, global styles, navigation, and reusable patterns. The Site Editor provides the main visual workspace. WordPress often calls the interface “Site Editor” now. “Full Site Editing,” or FSE, describes the broader capability. The terms overlap, but they are…

Block themes build templates from blocks and expose them through the Site Editor. Classic themes build templates primarily with PHP files. Choose by workflow, ownership, and integration needs, not visual fashion. Both theme types can display block-based post content. Both can produce fast, accessible, professional sites. Their main difference concerns site structure and design control.…

The WordPress block editor changes content inside one post or page. The Site Editor changes templates, template parts, navigation, and global design. Their controls look similar, but their reach differs dramatically. Use the block editor for a page’s unique words and media. Use the Site Editor for repeated site structure and shared visual rules. That…

Static WordPress blocks save their frontend HTML inside post content. Dynamic blocks generate frontend HTML during each uncached request. That timing difference changes freshness, portability, caching, validation, and failure behaviour. Neither model is universally better. Static rendering fits stable content. Dynamic rendering fits output that must follow changing data or site settings. Site owners rarely…

A WordPress block has five practical parts. It has an identity, attributes, inner blocks, saved markup, and rendering behaviour. WordPress combines those parts into one editable content component. The visible rectangle is only the editing surface. The important structure sits within saved post content and registered code. Understanding that split makes block problems easier to…

The WordPress block editor builds posts and pages from separate, movable content units. Each paragraph, image, heading, list, or layout becomes its own block. You edit those blocks visually, while WordPress stores structured content underneath. WordPress made this editor the default with WordPress 5.0. Its development name was Gutenberg. That name still appears in searches,…