Block Editor (Gutenberg) Styles

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.

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• This is an H2
• Simple Image Block
• New Gallery Block
• Recipe for a successful blog
• Ingredients
• Instructions
• Fractions
• Acronyms
• Group block
• Quotes
• Overlay Block
•  Branding

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.

This is an H5

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

This is an H6

Why even bother at this point?

Simple Image Block

New Gallery Block

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Galleries are new to the block editor, removing the need for plugins. The captions are relatively simple to create.

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.

Ingredients

Unordered lists are a great way to display information that doesn't have a sequence, like 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

The Feast Plugin now also has custom styling for button links, using your brand:

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Instructions

Use ordered lists to display lists that have a specific sequence to follow, 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.

Acronyms

The Feast Plugin contains an enhancement to convert recipe acronyms to improve screen reader accessibility, so that it reads the word teaspoon instead of "tee ess pee" and tablespoon instead of "tee bee ess pee".

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

 Branding

You can use the feast-box-primary class to style your paragraphs using primary brand colors

Or if you'd like...

You can use the feast-box-secondary class to style paragraphs using the secondary brand colors