Month: February 2019

Paragraph block

This is a normal paragraph block.

This paragraph has a drop cap. This can easily be done by clicking the ‘drop cap’ button in the block settings.

Indent the first line of a paragraph

Option #1 – CSS Class

This paragraph needs to begin with an indent. What’s the best way to do that? A special CSS class would help, but you need to determine whether ALL paragraphs need to begin with an indent, or only specific ones. The following code can be used if you want to specify a paragraph that should have an indent at the start. Note that clicking a few spaces at the beginning of a paragraph block won’t work because they will be removed upon publishing.


/* To indent the first line of a paragraph block */

.indented-first-line {
text-indent: 1em !important;
}

Option #2 – Use ‘Classic’ block instead

     Using Classic. The leading spaces will not be stripped out upon publishing. This paragraph needs to begin with an indent. What’s the best way to do that? A special CSS class would help, but you need to determine whether ALL paragraphs need to begin with an indent, or only specific ones. The following code can be used if you want to specify a paragraph that should have an indent at the start.

RSS block

A quick test of the new RSS block introduced in Gutenberg 5.0.

Another sample feed

RSS Error: WP HTTP Error: A valid URL was not provided.

List category posts (plugin test)

This plugin has now been removed.
Please use the “Latest Posts” block to achieve a similar collection of posts.

This is a test of the plugin “List category posts”. Below, you should see a list of posts from the category “plugin tests” — last I checked, there were about 7. (Update 20200529 – this list isn’t even accurate! “Contributor role” is not in the plugin tests category, but in the “User role tests” category).

[catlist name=”plugin-tests”]

NEW: Use ‘Latest Posts’ blocks to achieve a similar list to ‘List Category Posts’

The below example also lists posts in the “plugin tests” category.