WordPress block editor (Gutenberg) has replaced the old editor with a new look and a bunch of cool options. Small business owners can certainly benefit from the ease of creating landing and promotional pages using the new editor.

1. Block Editor for Small
Businesses
Chandrika Guntur

2. About the block editor
Block editor (Gutenberg) Classic editor

3. Block Editor
 Do I need to use the new editor?
 Can I have both the old and the new editor?
 Classic editor plugin

4. Cool features of the block editor
 Changing the layout of your pages is a breeze
 Tables, columns and galleries made easy
 Include widgets as part of your posts/pages
 Reusable blocks
 Product blocks

5. Block editor for small business
 Build and setup pages easily
 Build landing pages and promotional pages in no time
 No worries about the design/colors of the site
 Setup promotional campaigns and reuse them
 Add additional plugins that will give you more options compared to the default
block editor
 Page builders now work with the block editor giving you more options for quick
page layouts

6. Sample Layout

7. Pricing Tables

8. Grid Page Layout

9. Promotional Sales Page

10. Posts Layout

11. Gutenberg Ready Themes
 Do I need a Gutenberg ready theme?
 Block editor works with all the themes by default
 Some features might need to be enabled by the theme
 Some of these themes also give you easy to use layouts
 Go to http://www.wordpress.org/themes -> search for ‘Gutenberg Ready’
 If you are using the feature filter, you can select ‘Block Editor Styles’

12. Full width and wide width features need to be enabled in the
theme.

13. Theme specific color palettes

14. Additional Plugins
 https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-addons-for-gutenberg/
 https://wordpress.org/plugins/stackable-ultimate-gutenberg-blocks/
 https://wordpress.org/plugins/kadence-blocks/
 https://wordpress.org/plugins/atomic-blocks/
 https://wordpress.org/plugins/coblocks/
 https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-lab/

15. Thank you!
Email: cguntur@gcsdesign.com
Twitter: @chandrikaguntur
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