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Editor’s Kit

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Recommended from one of the WordPress webinars is Editor’s Kit. At the moment I can’t see what it actually does…….

Try Outs

I tried quite a few blocks systems but most I have ditched. In fact Im thinking of taking the blocks off this site that don’t work very well. However that will men that the pages I have built with them…

Full Site

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Well I started developing this site and learning Gutenberg only seven days ago. And I have to say I’m really pleased with the results. This now is a OK site – or IMHO it is!! More to the point I…

Breaking Out

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The two functions that I wanted to achieve and find out if they were possible was getting blocks that had margins and padding on and the ability to “break out” of a part of the site. ie so that the…

Overlapped

Yippee. By accident, as all good discoveries are, I have managed to create an overlap. I was looking for a plugin that would give me a decent header. The Gutenberg cover block altho it does the job keeps crashing and…

Worked on about

I have pretty much been working on the “About Me” page all day. The image above is a screenshot of my current website I am very much enjoying learning how to use Gutenberg and getting used to its little idiosyncrasies.…

Progress so far

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I must admit after all the years that I’ve slagged off WordPress, I am really enjoying making this site. I feel really excited about what is possible and what I am able to do in the future designing sites for…

Adding a post from my phone

Thought I would try adding a post on my phone and to see how easy it would be to do it 👍 I found that it was easy except that it was difficult to see what I was doing on…

New Blocks

Well I’ve just started using Gutenbee blocks and I must admit they are a lot easier to use and contain more options for each block. These are the free version so far. But they are the best so far so…

Progress Review

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Gutenberg blocks: Ive tried to use only Gutenberg blocks so far in the home page and with the posts. Thy work well except for I do find them limiting in the availability of options for any of the blocks. For…

Cobbled together blog

Well I have managed to get the blog to appear on the “Progress” page, but it’s still not right. First off I had the blog posts appearing but I couldn’t add a cover image which meant that the blogs were…

Only Showing Three Posts

Well I have managed to get a cover hero image on the blogs page now. I realise that I didn’t have the right type of page to show the “progress” posts. So I made a new page, called the old…

Every move….

Every move creates a new problem or if Im being positive a new learning opportunity. Ok so now I have to find out how to make the drop down menu items a responsible site and font. Now how do I…

Dashboard Plugins

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Ive just added a Dashboard plugin to add extra areas to the dashboard. The one I like the most is the “Note” widget. So I can leave notes to myself. I can see how this would be useful to have…

Stuck without a Header

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Having changed the “Home” page from tea and coffee to relevant copy and images to do with the task of learning WordPress, Im now stuck trying to find out how to put a cover image on the “blog” page. Also…

Changing from a cuppa!!

I had started to create this “Just Mucking about site as a cafe/cuppa site, but obviously that was just so I could work out how to design the pages and add blocks where I wanted. Having now decided that I’m…

First Post

Decided to use this site to not only learn WordPress and Gutenberg, but to check out the different makes of blocks available. So I will be doing a page per block type and maybe a page for anything else that…