The entire editing experience has been rebuild for media rich pages and posts because since Wordpress 5.0 has included the Gutenberg Editor that give us the ability to build using “Blocks”

Blocks are pieces of content elements. With them, users can insert, rearrange and style multimedia content with very little technical knowledge.

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Differences between Block Editor Gutenberg and Classic Editor

Gutenberg editor

Uses a totally different approach, called ‘Blocks’. You can add blocks for each paragraph, images, videos, galleries, audio, lists, and more.

With the new editor, you can simply add a table block, select your columns and rows, and start adding content. You can move content elements up and down, edit them as individual blocks, and easily create media-rich content. Is easy to use and learn.

Editor clássico

A text editor with formatting buttons very similar to Microsoft Word.

Here is a selection of the default blocks included with Gutenberg

Heading

Heading Works to break your page into sections. Each heading should indicate the start of a new topic.

Settings available: Heading Level (H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 or H6 ), text alignment (left, center, right), bold, italic, strikethrough, inks, HTML Anchor and additional CSS Class

Vídeo

Heading Allows you to embed video files and play them back using a simple player

Paragraph

Heading Works to insert paragraphs of text. Has an editor to change color, italics, size, links, Shows basic formatting buttons like: text alignment, bold, italic, insert-link, and strikethrough buttons.

Columns

Heading A way to add columns to your page or post. With the Columns block, you can quickly and easily adjust your page’s layout.

Youtube

Heading Works to embed a video from a youtube link

Audio

Heading The audio block is for uploading your own audio files (most commonly, .mp3 files) to your site.

Cover

Heading The Cover block is a fully-customizable element that can serve a number of purposes. It could be used as a classic hero banner, with a full-width photo background and text overlay.

Creating a new blog post or page

Creating a new blog post or page

Block edit side menu

When selecting a block, you will find options for configuring that block in this menu.

Block edit side menu

Side document editing menu

When you need to change the general configuration of the product and not a specific block, access this menu. Ex: Categories, tags, featured image.

Side document editing menu

When you're done, you can save your post / page as a draft, preview or publish

When you're done, you can save your post / page as a draft, preview or publish