IMPORTANT: Preparing yourself for WordPress 5.0 (Gutenburg)

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Introduction
As of WordPress 5.0’s release on December 6, 2018, WordPress has a new default content editor. Called the WordPress Gutenberg editor while in development, “Gutenberg” is now just the “WordPress editor” or “block e...
Basic of "Block Editing" and differences to the Classic Editor
Essentially, Gutenberg replaces the single edit field of the current WordPress TinyMCE editor with lots of individual “blocks”. These blocks then allow you to build more complex designs than those allowed in the old classic WordPress ed...
Building your first layout with the Gutenberg WordPress block editor
Assuming you’re using WordPress 5.0 and the new block editor, you’re ready to dig into the meat of this article. Below, I’ll show you how to actually use the new WordPress Gutenberg block editor to build a complete page layout. Th...
Building a basic layout with Gutenberg
Let’s start off simple. Say you just want to build a basic blog post layout that includes: Regular text An image A quote An embedded YouTube video Here’s how you’d do it with Gutenberg: First, you’d write your entire ...