Adding a Title and Content

At first, go to the admin panel of the dashboard. Next, go to Posts and click on Add New. After that, you will see the section like the below image.

At the top, you need to write the title of the post and below it, you can write the content of the post. You can either add the block on the section of content or can write content directly.

All the content sections are managed on blocks. For adding blocks on the content section, just click on the + sign on the Left side and you will get the options to add required blocks.

The new editor comes with some very useful blocks like paragraph, columns, images, gallery, embeds, shortcodes, widgets, and more. You can get some more blocks added by the plugins like SEO or Contact Form.

How to add Heading on Content?

There is a block name Heading and you can simply add heading using that block. You can add any size of heading(H1 to H6) using it. You can simply duplicate, move up or down, add links or remove that block as well. We will show you details in the video as well.

Similar to the above heading blocks, you can add other blocks as well. You can add widgets, embedded, image block and so many things. check yourself once.

How to add Video using Custom Blocks in Gutenberg?

Similar to the above adding block, we can add the video block as well. Firstly, you need to know where is the video block located. See the below GIF image first.

For embedding a video on Gutenberg, you can directly add the video file or can Embeds using Youtube. Select the Youtube from the Embeds section and add the youtube video URL directly to embed it. It is very simple. Moreover, you can embed slides of SlideShare, sound clouds audio etc.

Likewise, you can add the block in Gutenberg. Moreover, you have the option to change the layout, alignment and column layout as well in this editor. This newly introduced default editor is really mesmerizing.

Now, after the custom block, let’s see some more things on the dashboard. We think you are worried about where is an excerpt, where is featured image option, how to edit the post date etc. Well, we will show you everything.

All these things are now moved on the right-hand side. Check them there.

Set Featured Image

It is on the right-hand side and just above the excerpt field. Featured image is the primary image on WordPress post. It will add the additional value on your blog post. Almost all the WordPress themes support this functionality and indeed Afthemes have this functionality too. It is under the Document section of the Dashboard.

Adding Categories and Tags

Every section is managed in such a way that users can use them properly. Above the featured image section, you can easily see the Tags and Categories section. You can add the relevant categories and tags there.

You can manage categories from Posts > Categories of admin panel as well.

Similar to this, you can add tags on your posts. Adding tag is similar to the adding categories.

How to customize permalinks on the post?

Customizing permalinks is very necessary. Permalinks help to make yours on page SEO good. Customizing a WordPress permalink is easy. You can set the default permalinks from Settings > Permalink. Additionally, each post has the option to customize the permalink. You can do it from the permalink section, which is just above the featured image section.

Save Post in Draft, Preview and Publish

With the given button on the top right section of the dashboard, you can save the post as a draft. A draft post can easily be published later. While writing content and you want to see the preview, you can use the preview button. After finishing the content writing you can publish it.

Finally, you are able to use the custom blocks of Gutenberg. We believed that now you are familiar with the Gutenberg editor. Indeed, the default WordPress editor is powerful.