How To Get Started With WordPress Full Site Editing

This reminds me of trying to edit an email with Mailchimp’s builder. Faster than coding but a little bit annoying.

Thanks for this! I have just installed WordPress to build a website for our local community band, and it is the first time I have used WP in several years. Lots has changed, and your video has clarified enough for me to get started on the content (although I can see I have much more to learn). Thanks again.

Haven't dived into it until yesterday. Watched a year old tutorial.
I teach Wordpress to a diverse demograhic of students, mainly so they can build their own portfolio.
Suddenly some of them installed themes with the FSE.... so now i will HAVE to get up to speed. PLayed around with Twenty TwentyTwo... Man, that is complicated!! I have been in development and UI design for 20 years, and this is rather clunky.
Still hoping to find good tuts that are more up to date. Lot's is changing in the past months.
Gonna watch your vid now.
Cheers form the Netherlands.

For the global settings thing I think that you go into the style book (the little eye icon, visible in the 9 to 10 minute section of your video) totally obscure place to put it and then you change things globally on the sheet, but there is a whole thing about changing the style of the theme or changing the style locally. Export your changes to update your theme (see three dots menu same area). I think. As I said, I'm learning.

I'm here to learn how to use it. First off, FSE is moving so fast from the development point of view at WP that a lot of YT videos are already outdated. It's important, in my opinion, to keep up to date on this FSE thing because that is the way we are going. I clicked on this video because this was published only 4 months ago, at the time of posting, and I'm hoping that it isn't outdated already. jk.

Please keep us up to date with FSE by going deep into the editing possibilities by using FSE. For example theme creation and theme.json. FSE is really shaking up the way we approach a new website.

I love Oxygen Builder but I can see that when FSE from WordPress is free it might soon become a contender in the field. Not so flexible but for amateurs, a real step forward! Please make loads of tuts on FSE.

Edit: So far, FSE interface is not at all intuitive. Has to be clearer. I'd love to see a video about making a site from scratch using Create Block Themes plugin and a blank install. This I find really interesting and not at all easy to find global settings, header, footer, etc.

As a webdeveloper creating custom sites for clients i think the full site editor is not yet mature enough to introduce to my clients. i find it very confusing to access it through a "backdoor" like Appearance > Editor. I mean why cannot just footer and header blocks be added at the top and the bottom when you click on pages and select a certain page for edit in the normal wp page structure. Now there are two separate menu structures and Ui:s baked into one. I also would like to have an easy option to turn on andoff certain costumize options since my clients shouldnt have the option to adjust font type, font sizes, colors etc since these are fixed according to the design and brand manuals etc.

Hi do you have tutorial on how to chance favicon in Full Site Editing?

hey, guys let me help you.

so you have done your site, but you really don't know what TEXT to type or what STRATEGIES to use?

YUP!!

I can do this, not only am I a copywriter but first of all a strategic business partner.

What ACCULYY... I do for YOU?

-writing text based on what the reader wants to buy a product, click your link, etc.

-saving you time and effort.

-I'm securing for you that... if people get to your site more people gonna click.

Mhhh...BUT HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS?

like I did this to you right now😨

HEHE!!

So if you want your site to be writen in a NOT boring, professional way just answer the comment.

Dealing with the new editor instead of the standard appearance options is a joke. That is Wordpress for slowing my workflow

I tried few themes, Ollie, FSE, ... but I don't know how to go to edit Contact Us page with visual editor.
I have 2 pages, Front Page and Contact Us page.
From the Page\All Page\Edit and select edit for the Contact Us page, I will go to the plain edit page by WP, not the visual editor page like in the Front Page. When I preview the Contact Us page, it's ok. But when I click on the top menu "Edit Page," then I go to the plain edit page by WP again. But if I click on the top menu "Edit Site" then I will always go to the visual editor of the "Front Page," not to the Contact Us page.
Please help me how to edit my Contact Us page with this new visual editor?

Or the SKT theme that I use does not fully compatible withthe new full site editing feature.

Edit your homepage in the FSE but all the rest of the content on the pages or posts interface?

Now, hand off to a client who wants to update content on the homepage but needs to go to FSE, where they also have access to template parts and other templates they should not edit themselves. Then they have to go back into the main Wordpress interface to edit any other page or post content?

It’s just so dumb.

It’s almost like the authors of WordPress don’t actually work with clients or non technical people….

The content of pages needs to stay in the pages interface while templates and template parts are in FSE.

Don’t even get me started on the crappy editing interface for Gutenberg.

I create thousands of sites a year and I have used Gutenburg on hundreds of those sites. I can hand write React components for Gutenburg for heavens sake. I know this tool inside and out. The authors of WordPress could really learn something about interface design from the likes of Bricks or Breakdance. I mean seriously, even Generate Blocks is better at Gutenburg than Gutenburg.

I use theme "SKT FSEVersion: 1.3" which is full site editing capable. I don't know how to switch to other page for edit. There is no video showing this point. All videos shows the basics of full site editing covering styles, etc. but not this point.

I like this new editor from WP and learning this from your video. However, I can edit only the frontpage. I cannot go edit other pages i.e., Contact Us, etc. Finding a video to show how to go edit other pages. Can you make one?

Thanks for the video. I've been using Elementor and I find that it's more user friendly for my clients. I still feel that the FSE is a bit limited. (Personally I prefer Advanced Custom Fields and custom development but my clients like drag and drop.)

if only gutenberg developer want to consider to upgrade their ux so it could be easier to build block (like elementor and others). I confused with their idealism about gutenberg ui.

Truly good work!

The day I can create great looking, responsive and accessible headers and footers quicker with FSE, sure. Crafting solid menu functionality with live search, off canvas menus and other fancy stuff, is no easy task, and some "classic" theme developers have refined their products for years. So keeping an eye on FSE, but I'm yet to find that "killer application" to be honest.

Will take Ollie for a spin, though. Might find a nice pattern I can copy. That's a pretty neat feature of Gutenberg, that we can copy and paste groups between sites and themes, as long they are built with core blocks.

Good, well done and more please :)

Converted to FSE about a year ago - never looked back. What is not to like? Flexible, fast, adaptable, fully compatible with latest WP - PERFECT. Like I would always say to folk these days - stick with NATIVE WP as much as possible and you will save hours (days? Years?) of heartache trying to fix things that just do not work with page builders.

Basically EVERYONE (YEP! EVERYONE) uses the SAME OLD BORING LAYOUTS. So go on, make your life EASY! Stick to FSE and templates and blocks. You can layout a page in seconds then throw it back to the customers and say "hey, here's the layouts with dummy text - NOW YOU provide me the content".... Wait about 6 months for the content to arrive and then plugin in. JOB DONE 😃

Look life in the web design world will be changing dramatically in the next 6 months with AI taking over not only the web design AND the content but the dynamic generation of the content and images as well. WHY waste time...? "Oh, because MY customer wants a PERSONAL design... LOL LOL LOL. NO THEY DON'T. You show them a layout and they say (9 out of 10 times) - "Oooo that's nice" ... "what do you need now..." - that's when you say CONTENT. Oh, sorry that's what you used to say LOLOLOLOL. NOW you say "No problem, I'll generate your content as well with AI - just sit back and relaaaaaaaax"

HA HA It's all automated now. Anyone telling you different is delusional - it's happening - it's here and it's NOW. Buckle up my friends - LEARN FAST on how to use this new industrial IT revolution!

Why would anyone in their right mind use these options over Bricks/Elementor is beyond me.

Looks like a good theme, but the drawback is "Gutenturd". I don't like it.

Hey, another great and helpful video. I've just started a project and wanted to learn to use WP with WooCommerce to its fullest and since the last update, why not use blocks?
I installed WP and WC plus Ollie and immediately had no clue where to go from there. This tit got me going bit I'd love a more in depth tutorial how to use Ollie with WC.

Does it work with WooCommerce

I've tried some other pagebuilders and plugins for WordPress but nothing gives the customization and advanced options like Elementor and Crocoblock plugins. I understand why people might like to use these other plugins but none of them are even slightly close to Elementor in combination with Crocoblock. This sort of stuff is fine for very simple websites with just a few informative pages and a contact page (maybe a blog) but if you want to offer a client possibilities to add or change custom content from the frontend or manage bookings/ contact forms / accounts this is not even a possibility.

In theory FSE sounds good. However, the permanent change of interfaces and how a user has to interact is completely confusing. That is the main reason I've given up on FSE for now. It is like Gutenberg around the year 2018/2019: FSE just needs at least 1-3 more years to mature and to find its sweet spot. What I don't like is the typical WP Theme/Core Dev attitude: we know what is best and only we know how it should be done.

On the other hand, page builders like Bricks -- in practice it is just another "FSE", or at least an alternative FSE, if you want -- try to find out together with its customers & users what is the best way how such an interface should look and work. At least, that is my feeling and experience.

Gutenberg itself as the block editor thing has incorporated a lot of workflows and details from other page builders. This is truth. Period. However, the WP devs name it differently and modify it a bit, because they think they know better....!

Verdict: FSE is just not ready for prime time yet.

Of course, and now I'm finishing the project with the theme you suggested, but besides that, I needed dynamic post so I installed postx pro plugin and gutenverse plugin and WoWW!!! It looks very good, the degree of learning is high, it is not that easy, but if you manage to master the gutenberg builder, this will be the definitive solution to wordpress

Avada did this before it was cool 🙃

I'm using it on something now, because the site needs to be easy for users to maintain and requires no custom posts/taxonomies/code but does require multiple page templates. The template editor may be relatively complicated but it's only a little more knowledge than is needed for the page editor. I could easily get used to this.

We like to train our clients on how to update their websites once we finish a project. At this moment there is no way we would hand off a FSE build and try to train a client on how to use it.

I'm a big fan of Gutenberg. New block themes as Ollie are indeed a milestone in the Gutenberg evolution. However (and there is a big However), even with a good block theme, there still crucial missing parts in Gutenberg for average webdesign needs: lack of negative margins, z-index, positions, advanced background mamanagement, icons support.... Sure, there is some progress with the intrinsic design philosophy but there is still missing pieces for responsive, specialy the responsive menu part, ordering the blocks in mobile, etc. And I don't even speak of CPT or animations.

It seems that the Gutenberg staff is working more on the technical Gutenberg foundations rather than giving us this basics layout tools (for example they currently work on Interactvity API). I can understand this priority.

Some people could say you have to keep core Gutenberg simple. I'm ok but for example in the world of mobile domination the Gutenberg actual features are clearly not enough. And sure you can use CSS too for layout but you loose the block concept and relatively ease of use.

The only solution right now is using commercial blocks library. Among them, personaly I like MaxiBlocks (very good free solution), Spectra (a good average one), GreenShift (top advanced animations) and Cwicly (great advanced toolbox) because they are very close to Gutenberg and block themes (unlike GenerateBlocks or Kadence which use proprietary themes). But because Gutenberg still lacks a lot of features, this libraries must use their own avanced blocks instead of the Gutenberg blocks and so you are stuck with their solution.

Perhaps it will take one or two years more before we will see professional layout tools in Gutenberg. CSS grid is coming and there discussion about the best way to deal with negative margins or conditional features. And perhaps we will have a better UI too, who knows...

Anyone use starter sites for developing your websites

Very nice, Paul. In the Templates section, what is the difference between Front Page & Index? Thanks.

What I miss in FSE and Gutenberg are complex/custom Queries like you have inside Oxygen‘s Repeater element. I haven‘t found any better alternative that works natively within gutenberg, if anyone can recommend something, let me know! ☺️

They really need to change the UI it's could be great but that UI is awful

I am using it more and more, but still use elementor for more advance websites

I binned Gutenberg the day it arrived I used it for several weeks but it's just pants. So I use generate press generate blocks with the old editor. No problems.

New Job Title for 2023 and beyond... "WP Site Editor Setup Engineer"

I don’t hate Gutenberg, but since I discovered Bricks Builder and it's flexibility, FSE just looks cumbersome and limited. Dynamic data support is definitely a requirement, but core Gutenberg doesn’t support custom post types, etc. I’ll stick with Bricks.

Great, overview… why do we need to click save twice?

Very well explained! Tho I’ve not used Ollie, I have d/l the GreenShift theme and used it briefly, but switched back to Kadence, as I didn’t know how to properly manipulate it…may take a 2nd look after this vid…

Currently building a custom FSE multisite theme and I really like it Paul. It’s still missing a few key things like CSS grid, but the architecture behind FSE, patterns and blocks really appeals to me.

Installed Ollie. Love Mike his work. Spent 30 minutes playing around and was beyond frustrated (again) with the UI/UX. I just can't get wrap my head around the logic of anything in FSE. Spent 45 minutes on trying to get the Page Title to be hidden. I still have not figured it out.. Any tips are welcome :D

The patterns look fantastic, the concept of FSE is a good idea in theory. I don't want to take away any of the hard work people like Mike are doing to make this thing work. But there's never been a page/site builder in my 15 years of full-time WP development that has frustrated me more than spending any time in GB/FSE. I just don't understand any of the UI/UX decisions and there is absolutely zero flow to be found. I feel like how my parents use their SmartTV. Completely lost and praying that eventually I end up where I want to be.

I'll keep checking in with FSE, I want this thing to work. But to me it's just been a very tedious and frustrating tool.

yes we use spectra one theme

Thanks for the video 👌

Yes, but I'm still struggling with it.

Nope, looks horrible.

can we use Elementor with this theme?

Nope

I don't use it