10 Reasons to use Gutenberg WordPress Blocks

However you love using Classic editor since years and years, there are plenty of reasons to use Gutenberg Blocks. Also knows as WordPress Block editor. Yes, i agree. It seems easier to type our contents like if it was an email. But we must recognize that Blocks are the future in the big WordPress world.

Many plugins turn with Blocks. Many WordPress Themes turns with blocks. So for sure, we should let them a chance to convince us.

Let’s discover together many reasons to use Gutenberg Blocks in WordPress ! 🙂

Blocks are the future with WordPress

We have to recognize what needs to be recognized. Even if there’s resistance to blocks, they’re here and they’re here to stay. Better still, they are the future of WordPress, like FSE (full site editing). They regularly evolve and improve with each major update of the WordPress CMS. This was the case with the last WordPress major updates.

More features with Blocks

If you always you Classic Editor, you can easily write and publish. But you can’t have many features that you would have with Blocks. Let’s talk about some features as :

• Covers
• Buttons (perfect to add CTA inside content !)
• Quotes
• Calendars
• Queries
• Separators
• Spacers

Here are only some of the features available with Blocks. And i can tell you this : It really changes everything when you discover them. And then when you use them 🙂 Your posts get richer. Many of them are native Blocks and don’t need any plugins.

More features for webdesign

With classic editor in WordPress, content is mainly displayed in an editorial way. You write content from top to bottom. With or without some media files. Images, photos and perhaps embeded videos. But with native Blocks, you can take your content to an other level.

You can add a real webdesign to each post and/or page. You can add Covers. You can create real layouts that will change or not accordingly to your subjects or categories.

Blocks are a real way to obtain designs for content that you can’t have with Classic editor. For real.

Conversion to Blocks is easy

If you want to use blocks but are afraid that it will be complex and time-consuming, don’t worry. Because you can convert your WordPress content with a click :

After about 12 years using Classic Editor, i had thousands of posts to convert to Blocks. I did not changed all posts once. I convert them when i do updates on some of them. Same things for pages. But it’s easy thanks to the feature “Convert to blocks“.

You can duplicate Blocks

You surely need to keep time for things you love and/or for your job. So i’m sure that you’ll be happy to discover that you can duplicate Blocks. It’s a native feature, easy to use. A right click and it’s done ! :

For my part, i use it everyday. I don’t spend time with rewriting and so on. I duplicate blocks and keep my precious time to create new content ! Instead of recreating things from scratch !

WordPress blocks can be copied in whole or in part

Once again, WordPress blocks have evolved to make our lives easier. Some pages are very similar. So, to save time, you can copy all the blocks at once. There’s a feature that lets you duplicate entire pages and posts. Beware of duplicate content, of course ! This is particularly useful for page layouts, and less so for pure content writing.

No need to add plugins to duplicate your layouts or contents or covers 🙂

The use of blocks can be complemented by plugins and themes

Many people use WP blocks for writing, but not for page layout. Because these people find that blocks are too limited. Too crude. Indeed, they can be criticized for being a little too minimalist if you compare their functionality with that of famous builders like Elementor.

But if you find the layout features of Gutenberg blocks too limited, you can extend them with WordPress plugins and/or themes. Here are just a few examples of plugins that are perfect for extending the functions of WP blocks:

• Stackable
• GreenShift

And you can surely have more and more with Gutenberg Blocks with themes such as :

• Blocksy Pro ou Bloscksy free
• Kadence

No more excuses! You can use the blocks and complete the job with a WP plugin or theme.

No coding skills needed !

No coding skills needed to use Gutenberg Blocks (=WordPress Blocks editor). You add them, you try them and you see that they’re easy to use. For some people, they’re too easy to use and don’t offer what an Elementor would offer. But Blocks have this strength to let beginners use them without any coding courses. You can :

• add and change colors
• add and change typography size
• same thing for dimensions…

You want buttons ? You want to change a button ? Ok ! With some clicks and tests, it will be done ! Without any CSS or HTML skills 🙂

Blocks can be good for SEO

Perhaps you won’t believe me. But it’s true. Blocks can be good to improve you content SEO. How ?

Many Blocks added with famous plugins are available :

• breadcrumbs
• FAQ
• Table of content

And so many others ! Such Blocks are here to help you to create great content for your audience. And if it’s good for human people, i mean, your audience. It’s good for SEO. And they’re not available with Classic editor…

Let’s see an other example !

If you’re a beginner in website content creation, you don’t know what are titles for SEO or how to organize your content. And WordPress block editor can help you to understand such things, with the “Outline” feature :

A good way to see how your content is build. How to use your titles for your audience but also for SEO. This is especially true when content is long or very long!

You can add text on images with Blocks

There’s no need to add a plugin or go through Canva (or any other third-party tool) to put text on a block image. Turn your Gutenberg image block into a native Cover Blocks and add your text on a WordPress image in 2 clicks! By the way, if you’re not familiar with the native Cover block, you can easily take the time to discover it and use it your way.

A Cover block is a native block that allows to obtain great designs for content. With or without buttons…