What’s New within the Editor: More Design Tools, Enhanced Lists, Easier Block Switching

Ever for the reason that block editor was launched in 2018, we’ve been pushing it to do extra — and our newest crop of enhancements will assist you to construct posts and pages in your website with confidence, it doesn’t matter what you publish:

• More design instruments for dozens of blocks
• More management over lists with our improved List Block
• Easier block-switching

Let’s take a better take a look at every.

More Design Tools for Dozens of Blocks

We’ve added a wide range of design instruments to dozens of blocks. Depending on the block, you’ll now see typography, coloration, border, spacing, and format choices. 

To mess around with these new design instruments, choose the block you need to work with and use the right-hand sidebar to entry these sections. 

You’ll see just a few controls immediately, however with only a couple clicks you’ll be able to go even deeper. Select the three dots on the higher proper of every part to seek out much more choices, or hit the crimson chain hyperlink button to permit management over borders and/or padding for both sides or nook individually. 

Without a doubt, one of the enjoyable additions is having extra border choices on Image Blocks:

More Control Over Lists 

Our improved List Block implies that lists are simpler to handle from the toolbar. Every merchandise and hierarchy in your listing can now be manipulated as its personal block. Rearranging, grouping, and nesting gadgets has by no means been simpler: 

Easier Block-Switching

The block transforms menu presents a fast shortcut to modify to a special block, relying in your content material. As the variety of blocks has grown and also you’ve began utilizing this menu an increasing number of, it’s been made extra helpful by altering the group of what’s displayed on the high. For blocks that help paragraph, heading, listing, and quote transformations — that are, by far, probably the most used adjustments — we’ve now emphasised these blocks: 

Keep constructing with the block editor. We’ll preserve bettering it.

The block editor is at all times rising and bettering because of your suggestions, so thanks — we are able to’t wait to point out you what we’re constructing subsequent. In the meantime, we’ll proceed working arduous behind the scenes, with extra updates to come back! Have concepts for the right way to enhance the editor? Let us know within the feedback.