Block Editor (Gutenberg) Styling

This is a demo post exploring the different styles in the block editor (codenamed "Gutenberg"). This is just a development post - we haven't yet released this publicly.

Jump to:

• This is an H2
• Simple Image Block
• New Gallery Block
• Ingredients
• Instructions
• Fractions
• Test recipe
• Quotes
• Overlay Block
• Simple Recipe Index
• Simple Category Index
• comments

This is an H2

Most of your content should be contained in H2 subheadings.

In version 4.0.0 and later, body font-sizes have been standardized across all themes at 16px. Headings have been standardized using "em", meaning a multiple of the 16px body-font size.

For more details, see this blog post.

This is an H3

H3 can be used to sub-categorize your content under H2 headings. You typically won't need to use these when making recipes posts.

This is an H4

H4 is relatively uncommon, except in technical documentation.

As a food blogger, anything you consider using for H4 should be either bumped up to H3, or simple paragraph text. We recommend against using this.

This is an H5

No real application for this outside of technical and legal documents.

This is an H6

No real application for this outside of technical and legal documents.

Simple Image Block

New Gallery Block

Galleries are new to the block editor, removing the need for plugins. The captions are relatively simple to create, and let you display images in ½ or ⅓ columns.

Testing will be needed to see what sizes are loaded for various devices (desktop, tablet, mobile). Mobile is the most important, making up approximately 75% of pageviews for most food blogs in 2018 and on.

Too many images can slow down your page, unless you use a lazyloading plugin like WP Rocket.

Ingredients

Use an unordered list to show things in unsorted order, such as ingredients.

• This is an unordered list block
• This is the second item in the list
• Use unordered lists to create lists in which the sequence isn't important

Instructions

Ordered lists are great for showing steps in a process, like instructions.

1. This is an ordered list block
2. It's good to itemize sequential steps or items in an ordered list
3. Using lists to break up your content and make it easier to parse is a good user-experience practice

Fractions

The Feast Plugin contains an enhancement to convert text-based characters to fractions, so that you get ½ instead of 1 / 2 and ¼ instead of 1 / 4.

Quotes

Blockquotes are a great way to emphasize an important piece of your content.

You can also turn the blockquote into a citation by providing a "citation". This is a great way to reference content on another site.

Edgar Allan Poe

Overlay Block

 Photo credits Brooke Lark

Simple Recipe Index

The Feast Plugin offers a way to visually list posts using the FSRI block.

Simple Category Index

Similarly, categories can be displayed using the Feast Plugin offers a way to visually list categories using the Feast Category Images block.