If your digital agency offers web design services to your clients, it’s entirely likely that you already know how valuable WordPress and its seemingly infinite plugins can be. One of the most significant plugins, Gutenberg, has recently undergone updates that will allow even more editing flexibility than before.
Gutenberg In A Nutshell
Gutenberg is a WordPress editor initially launched in 2018. Gutenberg is a block editor that was first released with WordPress 5 and has added block functionality to every up-to-date WordPress site since. Gutenberg was created to allow users to create more flexible, customisable posts and pages, making it possible to add rich content to WordPress easily. WordPress is well known for its updates that consistently improve functionality and the WordPress web development experience. The same can be said for Gutenberg. The latest version of Gutenberg, launched in August 2022, Gutenberg 13.8, promises your digital agency more editing flexibility than ever before.
Gutenberg 13.8’s Additions And Improvements
Gutenberg 13.8 comes packed with several new features ranging from minor, seemingly trivial additions to bigger, more noticeable ones. Some of the things your digital agency can expect from Gutenberg 13.8 include:
Fluid typography support:
Using this new option, your digital agency can easily define a text size that automatically adjusts to a screen’s available real estate, ensuring that your client’s content looks fantastic on any device.
Border controls for image blocks:
Gutenberg’s image blocks now offer support for a full range of border controls. Your digital agency can now control border details, including style, colour and width.
Enhanced accessibility:
Gutenberg, and WordPress as a whole, are consistent in their efforts to make the platform and plugin, respectively, more accessible with each release. Gutenberg 13.8 includes enhancements to iterative accessibility, providing consistent, improved labels and tooltips that span across the editors. Gutenberg 13.8 also offers clickable elements in the “Add template” modal that are more keyboard-friendly.
Better control of full-width content:
With new settings under Global Styles > Layout, your digital agency will be able to override theme-defined content dimensions. With this enhancement, your digital agency has better control over your clients’ full-width content.
Additional components such as:
- BorderControl
- ColorPalette
- ColorPicker
- CustomSelectControl
- Dropdown
- InputControl
- InputControl
- ScrollLock
- SelectControl
- ToggleGroupControl
- UnitControl
How Gutenberg 13.8 Offers Your Digital Agency Greater Flexibility
Gutenberg 13.8 and further incremental updates to the plugin give your digital agency the ability to manipulate and customise more WordPress blocks and components. This gives you the opportunity to create WordPress websites for your digital agency that are unique in appearance and specifically tailored to suit their individual needs. If your digital agency offers WordPress template design, Gutenberg 13.8 improves the process considerably, allowing faster, easier block editing.
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