WordPress has recently offered its users a new 5.9 version that can dramatically transform the future of website design. Full Site Editing or FSE allows website builders to change their sites’ layout and design, as well as create and customize themes.
In this article, we will explore this cutting-edge feature of WordPress that transforms the way we design websites.
What Is WordPress Site Editing?
WordPress Version 5.9 is a complete paradigm shift in website design, theme development, and templating. FSE is a set of features that allow users to design every website aspect with blocks. WordPress enables users to create and edit page templates and elements in a block-based graphic user interface. Now people can modify their sites in a singular workflow. With Full-Site Editing, you can make complex changes to page templates easily. There’s no need to alternate between the front end and back or code a file, and this new set of features makes changes visible.
Features of Full Site Editing
Full Site Editing offers the following improvements and updates:
Block Controls
Users can benefit from WordPress 5.9 features that help refine details. There are new typography tools, flexible layout controls, and finer control of spacing, borders, etc.
Patterns
The Pattern Explorer enables you to compare patterns and select the one to meet the needs of your users. Edit a range of block patterns and add them to make your site more functional.
List View
With a new List View, you can drag and drop your content where it’s needed. Now simple controls facilitate managing complex documents. Just expand and collapse sections as you build your site and add HTML anchors.
Style Variations
Block themes have feature Styles for customizing your site’s design elements. You can use different colors, typography, and layouts or select the appropriate theme.
Gallery Block
Now you can style every image differently in your gallery and treat them the way you did it in the Image Block. Drag-and-drop will help you change the layout.
If you want to make your website a reflection of your brand or company, customize different site elements. You can personalize the content on your page and add subtitles to video, watermarks to images, generate customized templates with your favorite active color for links, and add a number of dynamic blocks you wish.
Full Site Editing Cons
Despite all the great functionalities, you may have some FSE concerns. Block theme is the first default of FSE features. It’s a relatively new concept that may cause issues with design control. The WordPress core block library, the new Patterns library, and third-party plugins are still in the phase of fine-tuning, so WordPress web design control is limited to using their blocks. WordPress FSE is constantly improving, and you can help with that by participating in testing.
Final Thoughts
Full Site Editing is a promising feature that has a lot of pros, but there are also certain cons. But it’s still a crucial stage in WordPress evolution, providing more customization opportunities. We wish you good luck in mastering this brand-new approach to creating templates, applying base styles, and using block patterns.