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WordPress Gutenberg Blocks: Layout vs. Columns
WordPress new Gutenberg Editor, aka WordPress Block Editor, is becoming more popular every day. Gone are the day where learning HTML, or PHP, was the only way to achieve certain visual results. With Gutenberg our options are almost limitless. Skeptical user are complaining about Gutenberg inconsistency and bug. Yes, the new editor still has a lot of bugs (October 2020), but it’s improving by the day and it’s without any doubt a huge step forward compared to the old WordPress classic editor.
What is the Gutenberg Editor?
If you are already familiar with the Gutenberg approach you can skip this section. WordPress has been working on a new Editor, called Gutenberg, for quite some time. The idea behind Gutenberg is to use a Lego approach in the construction of a web page (and for the entire website in the future). Users have access to a palette of predefined blocks that implement the most common functional area of a typical web page. Instead of writing some obscure HTML code or proprietary WordPress shortcuts, we can now add to our page blocks like Paragraph, Heading, List, Image, YouTube Video, and so on. There are dozens of different blocks out of the box, and we can also create our own blocks. Blocks are like object: they have a position (that we can change moving them up or down the page), they have a set of properties…
