How To Create A Blog In Your Wordpress Website

Hi guys , my name is Freddy .

And in this video , I will show you how you can create a blog area into your wordpress website .

Let me show you what we will cover in this tutorial .

I will show you how to implement a blockage and blog posts into your existing wordpress website .

Then we will create our blog post using the Gutenberg editor that comes with wordpress .

We will create paragraphs , headers at images videos and we will use advanced free add ons to get more functionalities into the Gutenberg editor .

We will also talk about styling the blog post so we can get the most out of it .

Then we will talk about how to publish the blog post or how to schedule it .

We will walk over the settings of the blog post , like adding featured images , categories , tags , excerpts , display settings and more .

When we have a few blog posts , we will talk about themes because every theme has their own block settings .

I will use the free extra theme in this tutorial .

Then we will create the block page using the extra theme settings .

And after that , I will show you how to design your block page using the free page builder called Element to wrap it up .

I will show you how to show the latest blog post on your home page .

And in the widget area of your footer in the description of this video , I have time stamps .

So if you want to follow a certain part of the tutorial , you can click on the time stamp and you will go directly to the part .

If I go to quick for you , you can slow down the speed of the video like this .

If you like what you see so far and please like this video .

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And I would like to say , let's get started .

So what you see over here is my website which has a home page and about page , a services page , a portfolio page and a contact page .

If you want to learn how to create this website , then you can go to 30 corp dot com tutorials how to make a website for free and there you have it .

But what I want to add is a block page with block posts .

How can I do that ?

Well , first I hover over new while I'm logged in , I click on page and I call this the blog page or news or whatever you want to call this .

I call this blog .

Then I click on publish and I publish .

Now I go to appearance menus and I want to add the block page to my menu .

I have a menu over here .

I select it and I click on , add to menu .

Now , if I scroll down , I see block over here and I want to put it in front of contact .

So I bring it over here .

I click on save .

And now if I take a look , the block page is in our menu .

What I want to do now , I want to assign the blog posts of this website to the block page .

We need to do that manually .

So I go to the dashboard to settings reading .

And I want to use a static page which is the home page and as a post page , I want to have the block page .

So I click on save changes .

Now , then I go to the website .

And if I click on the block page , you see nothing .

Why do you see nothing because we do not have a blog post yet .

So we need to create a first block post .

Let's do that by hovering over new and clicking on post .

Here .

We need to create a title for the blog post .

And that is really important because you will be found on the title of your blog post .

If I search for seven or the seven best free logins or seven best three plugins for wordpress .

What we see over here , seven best free update plugins for wordpress .

This is the title of this blog post from Darryl Wilson .

And if I scroll down a bit , you see videos , 47 best plugins for fall 2019 , most are free seven best free update plugins for purpose .

There is again .

So you see when I search for something like this , people will be found based on the title of their blog post .

So the title of your blog post need to have a few keywords .

In this case , it was free plugins , wordpress seven .

So title is really important .

The title for this blog post is as a man thinks in his heart .

So is he that's a phrase from scripture .

And I like that to be the title of the blog post because it contains the summary of what this blog post is all about .

So if I search for this , you see it's from the Bible , what does it mean here ?

You see it as a man thinks in his heart .

So is he so I could be found over here in a few months or a few weeks depending on how active my website is or how much people read my blog post and like it and share it .

So the title is important .

What I can do now over here , I can click on publish and I can click on publish again .

And now my blog post is published .

So now if I go to the website , I hold control or comment on the Mac to go to the website and New tap , I go to the block page .

What do you see as a man thinks in his heart ?

So is he , you see the title ?

You see that you can leave a comment .

There's no category and it is by the author Freddy Corpus .

The author is Freddie Corp because over here if I click on edit my profile , I filled in my first name , my last name and here at display name publicity , I said select for Corpus .

So that's how I am seeing .

So there's so much more we can do right now .

We have a title , what I want to do now , I want to create the content for the blog post and it can be text images , a poll , it can be whatever you want .

So what can we do over here ?

I can start typing .

So I have a paragraph over here here , I can change the word and if I want to add a new paragraph , I just hit enter and I can continue to type .

So I have the second paragraph .

And how can I see that because you see a line around it .

So in every paragraph , we can change the style for this paragraph .

I can say I want to bring this to the center or to the right or make it bolt or make it a heading .

So now this whole area is heading .

Well , I want to bring it back to a paragraph but there's so much more .

If I hit enter , I open a new block , it's called the block .

So this is a block , a paragraph block , another paragraph block .

But this time I can do something else .

So if I click on the plus , I see what I use the most paragraphs , headings , images gross .

A list gallery audio cover fell .

Then we have common blocks , a lot of the same ones , but I can also add a video .

Then we have formatting , add some goat , a table a verse , then we can add columns .

There's so much we can do over here and widgets weekend at an more stuff and bad things .

So if I would click on youtube , I can add a URL .

So I go to youtube and I search for Bio 01 mindset .

There it is right mouse , click , copy the link address .

I go to the new post and I paste it over here and then I click on embed .

So now this is not the paragraph , but this is a video , an embedded video from youtube .

What I can do now over here , I see those handles .

I can bring this down this paragraph and now this paragraph is below the video .

So that's how you can create blog posts .

So over here I can hit , enter , I can start typing the fruit or the roots I hit , enter , this is a new paragraph and I can click over here and I can change it to a heading .

I like to use H two because you can use H one only once and the header is in H one .

So I use H two .

So there's a title and below it , I can add a new text like this .

Ok .

Awesome .

I click on update now .

If I go to the website , I go to the block page and I click over here and this is our blog post , the paragraph , the video , another paragraph , the title and two paragraphs .

Oh , it looks better already .

But I think it's a little bit boring .

So how can we make this better if I want to over here ?

I can click and I can say , you know , the word yourself , I want to emphasize it .

So I make it bold and this word behave in life .

Those three words , I want to make them idyllic in that way you can change things or you select it .

And there are more options over here strike through like that .

If I don't like it and this back to how it was , there can also be a link , select it .

I click over here and then I say HD bs earth dot com or maybe you have a different block post , then you can type the different blog post .

For instance , in my case , the about page I click on it .

Now this word Earth is linking to elemental city dot com forward slash about .

I can also open it in a new tab and then I click here or here and the link is implemented .

Maybe I want to make it bold .

I don't do that .

I just click on update , refresh the page .

Now , if I click on earth , I go in a new tab to the about page .

So that's how it works with linking .

So if I click over here here at the right , I see some options , I can change the font size to medium or change the size over here .

So if I would say 10 , it is really small .

I can click on reset , I I say drop the cap .

So the first letter of this paragraph , it looks like this .

Then there are settings I can change the backgrounds , do something else .

I can change the thick scholar .

So I say white color and a dark background .

I can go to advanced and I can add CS S classes .

I don't use that .

I click an update .

So now we change , look a few based on the settings of this paragraph block .

So if I go to a different kind of block , for instance , the youtube block here are different settings .

So based on the block , you have opened , this is a heading , you can change the settings of the block , you can align it to the right , to the left in the center , you can add HML anchors .

So people can link to this area in your website .

And again , additional C class which we do not use .

So in that way , you can sell your blog post .

What I will do , I will go over here hit enter and I create a new title .

Five steps to get a better self image .

I hit enter .

So there's a new block .

I click on the plus and I go for a list .

So there's a bullet point and I say start reading books about self improvement .

Second one , I hit enter , speak out out who you want to be .

For instance , I am great .

I am awesome .

I can do this over here .

Hit , enter , fill your life with positive people around you .

Enter , start hanging out with people that like you and the latest one don't watch too much TV .

OK ?

So over here I click , I changed it to a heading H two .

Perfect .

And what I want to do with this video , I want to bring it all the way down .

So I click over here .

That's all the way down .

I click on update and that's all the way here .

So if I refresh the page , we have stellar paragraph , we have our second one , the title , a few paragraphs and then the list and the video .

Well , what else can we do ?

We can add a few images if I want to get images for free while getting into problems with copyright stuff .

I go to Pixar bay dot com and since the subject is as a man thinks in his heart .

I search for thinking man .

And if I think something , I like this one , for instance , I click on free download , download it another robot click on downloads and then I like to rename this to think or the same text as a man thinks in his heart .

So is he enter over here ?

I click on the plus .

Let me see .

Where is it ?

Here's a plus .

And I want to search for an image and I want to add an image upload .

Then I go to the downloads and I click on open .

If you want to know more about images , how to optimize them and all that stuff , you can click over here .

Now we'll go deeper into that subject right now .

I just want to use this .

So what can I do now if I would say align it here at the right ?

And I can make it smaller , not that much happens .

But if I bring this up , look at that now it's interfering with this paragraph .

So in that way , we can sell our website even better and make it smaller .

And then here at the settings of this block , which is an image block , I can say the width , the height , link it to something .

For instance , the media image itself open in a new tab or not .

So there are a few options .

You can have a caption if you want to .

I don't want that right now , I click on update and we can find more images .

For instance , happy people .

I grabbed this one free download , download .

I'm still not a robot download showing finer I renamed this too freedom in your mind .

And then here I can click over here on the plus image , upload freedom in your mind .

And maybe I want to align it to the left this time , make it smaller and bring it up like that .

And then here I can have a caption freedom in your mind .

So now if I update it and I refresh the blog post , where are some images which can make our blog post look better .

So what we also can do if you go to 30 corp dot com forward slash UAE , then we can use ultimate advances and for elementary data cost money .

But here at our products for Gutenberg , which is the page builder , we use it is free , we can download this for free .

So I click on free download and now it's added to our computer .

Now I go to my post , I click on update .

Then I go to plugins at new upload plug in and I can drag this over here .

Ultimate Announce for Gutenberg .

I click on install now and now I click on , activate the plug in and close this .

So now it says edit , I go to the website to the block page to the blog post and I click on edit post .

And what we all see now .

So I scroll down and if I click on the plus over here .

Alright , let me see over here .

Plus I close this , I scroll down here .

We see ultimate Anno blocks .

It's for free .

But you see there are so much more possibilities right now .

So what I can do , I can go to formal or let me see layout elements and I can say I want to have three columns .

Well , here's the first one I click on the plus and I go to an and I say I want to have a team member .

So you can change the name F Corpus Hook .

I am the one and only CEO and you can have some texts about yourself .

You can link this to your Facebook page .

And then here at the right , we have all those settings so I can have a team member image , select it .

This is who I am select it .

And then it looks like that I can say I want to be above or left from the text or right image style circle .

We can change the width of this image .

And then for all the things social links , we can enable them open them in a new window .

You can add our Twitter icon ulh TV S 30 hook dot com or Facebook .

So Facebook dot com forward slash Freddie Corpus Hook , linkedin .

I can say , you know what I don't want to use it .

So now it's gone .

The color settings , I can change the colors .

There's so much you can do and it's all for free .

How great is that ?

Well , if I like this , let me see , maybe I can duplicate it .

Yes , I can .

And then I can maybe drag it here .

Yes , like that .

Maybe I can go to the settings of the columns and there I can say I want to have three columns and then I can duplicate it one more time and then I direct this or I drag this one .

It's easier like that update , refresh the page .

So with a free page book called Gutenberg and the free add-ons from , they are called the Gutenberg Ultimate .

We can create something like this for the Corp shook .

So the sky is the limit with Gutenberg and creating blog posts .

But now we only discussed the content of this area .

There is so much more we can cover .

So let's do that .

I close this and over here let me show you one more time .

We can add a youtube video , a list , a gallery uh We can have so team members at advance heading both grid sections , both info box testimonials .

And you can also search for free Gutenberg blogs and then you see more of that and you can import it and make beautiful block pages and all that stuff .

But what I want to talk about now is other options within the Gutenberg Builder as I said before , if I click over here , I see here at block the options of this area .

And if I click on image , you see different settings .

If I click on them , you see different settings .

But left from that , you have the document options .

So what it says over here that is that our blog post is visible .

It's public .

If I click over here , I can change it to private .

Yes .

And since I'm logged in , I still can see it .

But if I would go to this page with safari , so I go to the block page .

You do not see it .

Why ?

Because it is not public because we said it should be private .

So I put it back to public .

You can also protect it with a password .

So people need to fill in their password and then they can check it .

So if I would say 1234 and I click on update , I go to safari and I refresh the beach , I can click on it and says it protected .

So I say 1234 enter and now we can view the whole block post .

So that's how it works .

Then what else ?

Right now it says it is published the this date .

If I would bring this back to the first of November 2019 , what did we say ?

Then here at block ?

Well , you don't see that when it is published , but you can see it is published and it's not protected anymore , but you see it's available over here .

So you don't see the date , you can change it in the customized settings .

We'll talk about it later .

But if I would say that this will be published the next month , the first of December 2019 and I click on update , then you don't see the post .

Why ?

Because now it is scheduled to be published in the future .

And that's the great thing about wordpress , you can schedule blog post .

So if you have a really good day , you can create 10 beautiful valuable blog posts and can schedule them for every next Friday .

And then you've done 10 weeks of work of blog posts in one day .

So I bring this back to today and then if you see tomorrow , it says schedule and if it's today , it says publish .

So when you publish it , it is available , when you schedule it , it will be available on the time that you schedule .

I close this .

What else ?

The post format is standard .

If you have a blog post , that's all about a video that you want to show .

You can say video , I just say standard and that's ok .

If it's an important block post , you can also say stick this on top of the block .

So this will also be visible as first block post , even if there's a more recent one update and you can put it to the trash , then there are revisions .

If you click on that , you can take a look at earlier versions and maybe you say I want to restore this revision , but I don't use it .

So I click on return to the editor , then we have the Perma link .

If you go to the settings and Burma links , I don't save it .

You should use Bo's name because then , then it's called elementary city dot com forward slash SMN thinks in his heart and not all this ugly code .

So Bo's name and then if you go to the posts , all posts , I click on our block post here .

It said the slug is as a man thinks in his heart or the link as a man thinks in the heart .

So is he ?

So if I take a look at the block page and I click over here , it's called a things in his heart .

So is he , I can also say after that 2020 .

And if I update it and I go to the block page and I click over here now we see 2020 .

So you can change the link over here .

And this link is also important because if I search for seven best free plugins for wordpress and I click over here , then you see over here that's also in the title .

So the domain and then this stuff .

So that's really important that you do it the same way .

So I close the Perma link .

What else categories ?

Especially when you have a big website .

Categories are so important .

If it says UNC you have a website with 100 block post , they're all unc there's no structure in it .

So with categories , you can create a structure .

So what I want to do maybe at Elemental City , I want to talk about web design , about photography , about self improvement .

Well , then those are all categories .

So I can say this one is self improvement and then I click on add a new category .

But if you have a really big website , then you also can create subcategories .

So below self improvement , I can also say since this scripture from the Bible , I can say teachings from the Bible , something like that .

I don't know .

And then you can have a parent category which is self improvement .

And now if I add the new category , it look like this , they're both checked .

What does it mean if I update it and I refresh the page over here , you see two categories and what happens if in the future , you will have a lot of new blog posts and they have the category self improvement .

When you click on self improvement , then you see all the blog posts that contains the category , self improvement .

So that's really nice .

And then that way you keep your website structured even though there can be a lot of block posts in it .

So that's with block posts .

If I take a look at 30 Corp dot com , you see , I have categories .

So if I click over here and I scroll down , I see , you see , I have three categories , blog , post , online , business or tutorials .

By the way over here , you see , send a notification on a post update .

So when I check this and I update it and all the people that are signed up for my website .

So if I go to Safari , so if I go to F Corp dot com , it can be that .

They will ask if I want to subscribe to every news item .

And when I do so , then I will be put on this one signal list .

And then the visitor gets a notification over here when I upload a new blog post or I update one and I check this .

So right now , a few 1000 people will receive a message when I upload a new block .

So I have a tutorial about that .

You can watch it over here .

Let's continue now with our tutorial .

So that's categories we have also text and text is actually almost the same principle as categories only with text .

You cannot nest them .

So you cannot have sub text or sub sub text .

So what I can say over here , I can say Proverbs comma and then you see it becomes a attack .

I can say self improve , comma and freedom .

Now , if I update it and I refresh the page , you probably do not see the text .

If I click on it now , you don't see them .

You see the categories over here , but you do not see the text also , not below or I can go to the customizer .

I use the theme , which is in my opinion , the best free theme to use .

I click on blog archive and there I can show text .

So if I click on publish , I close this then go to the block page .

Now I see the tag over here .

It does not look that appealing , but it makes a point if I click on Proverbs and if I have more blog posts about Proverbs , you see all the block post that contains this tag .

So in that way you can use categories and tag .

So let's go to the featured image .

If I set a featured image , for instance this one or this one is me in South Africa on honeymoon , I click on update now it becomes more appealing .

So if I go to the block page , I see this image over here .

What I prefer is that all my images of featured image have the same aspect ratio .

That's not the case with this image .

So I can click on it , I can click on edit and then I can say 16 by nine , then I want to make a selection .

I select the area , then I hit this area .

This I can I click on save So now the aspect ratio is 16 by nine .

I click on update .

I close this and now I can close this , remove , selected again .

And now it's 90 20 by 1000 and 80 I selected update .

And now if I refresh it , you'll see it looks like this .

So that's better .

I want to get rid of those texts .

So I go to customize blog AFI DEX .

Publish , close it .

So what else I go to the back end , scroll down and there's an excerpt .

What is an excerpt ?

Well , here at the block post overview , you see a text and then after the word R , you see three dots , that means that this is just the beginning of the blog post .

So if I click over here , I see it starts exactly with the same text .

What you can do over here at the excerpt is you can create your own text .

This is an amazing block post .

You should read it and share it update .

Now , if I go to the overview page , the block page , it does not show the beginning of the text , but it shows my excerpt .

This is an amazing blog post , you should read it and share it .

So what I prefer is to use the first line and then people can read more .

So I go to the document options to the excerpt and then paste this text .

If I update it and I go to the block page , you see the first paragraph .

I prefer to use the first paragraph .

I copy it and then use it .

Ok , then there's discussion .

Do you want to allow comments ?

Well , if that is the case and you click on the blog post , you scroll down and there people can leave a comment .

I'm logged in already so I can type here .

But if you're not logged in on my website , then you can fill in your name , email address , website and your text and then I need to approve it .

Then there's the post attributes .

Right now .

We have a side bar here at the right and here at the left , we see the text , the content of the blog post .

I can also say I want to change the template to full and then it looks like this without a sidebar .

I really don't like this or we can even say , and then you do not see a heather or a footer .

Well , I really don't like this .

I don't use it .

So I just say default template .

Then we have the settings , the sidebar .

Do I want to have a sidebar ?

You can say I want to have the sidebar at the left refresh than it is at the left .

I can say I want to have no sidebar .

I can say I want to change the look a few of the block page .

So now it looks like this no sidebar and the content is fully from the left to the right , I bring it back to customizer settings and right sidebar over customizer settings , then I can disable the title over here .

So if I disable it , I can disable the Heather over here .

The featured image , this one , the food or bar and the bread crumb .

So if I disable everything , it looks like this , no header , no featured image and no food .

So you can decide what you do not want to show .

I want to show everything we can have a transparent header enable it .

But you need to adjust a few settings if you use extra theme to see a nice result .

So right now I don't use it .

I don't like it if I say customize the settings update .

Awesome .

So we have created a block page .

Let me refresh this a block page where we see the latest block post we see over here , our title , our Bread Crump , the content .

We have used the blocks from Gutenberg , but also from Ultimate Gutenberg .

We discussed a few settings over here how to publish it .

So now I will add a few more block post and then I will show you how we can configure the block pages and the block post pages .

So it's a bit later I added a few block post just as I did with this one .

So if I go to the block page , I can close this .

Now , you see recent posts .

There are five blog posts .

If I scroll down , you see an image , there's already a comment , there's the category , the author , there's an excerpt .

So that's how it looks .

And if I click on it , it looked like this .

And below you see the comments those look like and I can reply on them .

So that is great .

So if I take a look at the block page right now , we see our blog post .

I added some others to illustrate something because I want to talk about themes .

If you take a look at this area , it is displayed this way because of the theme settings .

So if I click on customize , then I go to the theme customizer .

And if I go to block , I have block single post settings over here and block archive settings , we'll take a look at this later .

But I just want to illustrate that every theme has their own settings .

So if I turn this off , you see there are no featured images anymore .

So if I close this , OK , and I go to the back end to themes , appearance themes , I can choose 2020 activated .

My website will probably look like a mess right now .

So if I open this , I go to the block page , this is the overview of the 2020 theme .

So you see it's displayed in a totally different way .

So if I would go to the customized settings , then there are no block settings .

So every theme has their own settings .

Let me give you one more example .

I close this and I say Ocean WB for instance , it's not found because I need to click on add new and then I need to search for it .

I install it and I activated , I click on blog again or I refresh the page .

And now it also looks different .

A little bit more like this is displayed a different way you can click on .

Continue reading .

The sidebar is displayed a different way with the titles in this area over here .

So if I click on , continue reading , you see the title over here , you see the bread crumb .

So every theme has their own settings .

So let's take a look at the customizer of the ocean WB theme .

Then I scroll down and I go to block .

And if I go to the blog entries , I can display where I want to show the sidebar .

So if I say sidebar here at the left , and if I click on the block page , because right now you see the sidebar is here at the left or you can have two sidebars .

So you see every theme has their own display settings .

So I like to use the extra theme .

But then you know that every theme , if you use a different theme , the display settings can be different if your theme has not much settings , but you don't want to switch your theme to a different one .

No problem .

I will also show you in the tutorial how to use element or to create a beautiful block page overview .

So let's go back to the block page in the extra theme .

So if I take a look at the blog post , we can configure this .

So in order to do that , I click on , customize what I want to do .

First , I want to go to Global to Container .

Here , we have the block page .

There's an overview of the recent block posts and we can configure this and there's also the individual block posts and there's a difference between them .

There are one full block post will be shown .

So here is the page layout and then there's the block posts layouts , but there's also the archives layout and the block page is an archive page .

So if I change something over here , for instance to content box , it changes .

So what does it say ?

Content box ?

It means that the content , this area is in one big box , this white background over here and the rest of the sidebar is not .

So if you say box , everything is in boxes , also all the widget areas , then we have full width contained .

That means that there is no box , everything is full width , but the content is contained between the width of 11 40 .

So if I make this site smaller , you see the content goes not more to the left over here and here and not more to the right .

I like that .

What I also can do , I can say I want to be fluid and stretched and that means that the content will adjust to the screen size .

So it will be here totally at the left and here the sidebar totally at the right .

Well , I don't want that .

I prefer boxed .

So everything is in boxes , the sidebars and the background , awesome , the sidebar widgets and this content area .

And the same goes for me for the block post .

So if I go to this particular block post , I also want this to be in boxes .

So also here it says boxes I click on publish and I go back , then I go to the block page again , I go back , then I go to blog over here , then went to blog archive , which is this page and I can decide not to show the featured image .

So I check this or I uncheck it and then these featured images will be gone .

Well , I like them .

So I turn them on .

I can also say I don't want to show this .

So I turn this off , I turn it on and I can change the order you all see it change in real time , which I really like I put it back .

So what do I want to show in the metadata ?

This is the metadata .

If I turn this off , you see no comments so I can turn it on .

People can leave the comments .

Then there are the categories , two categories over here and then the author by Fred Corpu .

I can also show the publish date and I can drink it up and I can show the text .

I don't do that and I'll leave a comment here below .

So that's how I like it .

Then over here we have the content with , you can change it , you can make it smaller if you want to .

But I like it as this .

So I say default and then the post content , do we want to show only the excerpt or the whole full content ?

So now you see all the block posts in its entirety .

Well , I like this show .

Excerpt only .

I scroll down , we can change the archive title .

I think it's too big .

So I click on the post title and then make it smaller like that , you know , 35 .

Well , how can you see the archive title ?

I click on publish first .

If I would go to self improvement , I see all the blog post that has the category , self improvement .

It's only one but here you see the title and here we can change the archive title size so I can make it smaller .

I can make it bigger , let's say 50 .

So that's how I can change the argive title .

I click on publish and then I go back and I go to the single post .

So I go to this blog post here .

Again , we can change the width , we can make it smaller .

I can show or height the featured image I can show or hide the title Unblock Meta .

And then here , what kind of meta do I want to show ?

Well , again , the same things , the date over here , the comments below and here , I also do not want to show the text .

I want to have the text in the sidebar .

I will show you later how it is done .

Do I want to change the size if I want to ?

I can do that over here .

Publish .

Then I go back and I go back and I go to the side bar .

Well , I can say where on the website , I want to display a sidebar .

The sidebar is this area over here with those widgets .

So a sidebar contains widgets .

So where they want to show the sidebar , default , no sidebar on all the pages , but on the blog post , right sidebar , a graph pages also right one .

I can also say left one or no sidebar , I can change the width of the sidebar so I can increase it .

So now it's a bit bigger , let's say 27 .

No , that's too small , 32 like that publish .

Then I go back and then I can go to the widgets over here .

There's the main side bar .

But what I prefer is closing this then here at the back end , go to widgets .

So we see the main sidebar here .

This is the cyber that will be shown on every page that has a sidebar in the website .

So if I take a look at the website , the block page , you see search and then a recent post and that's also what you see over here , search recent post .

I don't want to have a search area .

So I click over here and I say delete and now if I refresh this , it is not there .

Do I want to have recent comments , archives , categories , meta .

Well , I do not want to have recent comments or archives .

I do want to have categories .

I do not want to have me .

But over here there are more cyber widgets that you can add over here .

So let me see .

I can have a gallery navigation menu .

I can show videos .

Let me see what I want to show here is stack but I cannot find them .

So what can I do now ?

I can go to plug ins at new and I searched for the cloud .

Uh Here something like this .

Maybe I like that .

So I click on category stack cloud from well , true in store activate .

So now I have an extra functionality within my website because of this plug in .

So now if I go to appearance widgets here at the left , I should be able to find the tech cloud .

So I click over here .

I want to add this to the main cyber .

It's already checked .

So I click on added the widget .

So now it's over here , I can say tag cloud or tags .

And the taxonomy is I can also say categories , but I prefer show the tack count how many items are stacked with the stack .

Well , I uncheck this , I click unsafe and now if I refresh the page , it looks like this .

Thanks .

So if I go back and I say I want to show the tax accounts and I refresh the page , there are only and there's only one for everyone .

So if I click on ocean , I see all the blog posts with the ocean .

So in that way , everything is also linking better in the website , which is good for the Google search results .

So use as you see , I use personal goals , flowers freedom element or film , et cetera .

So be creative with it .

I like this .

It's a free and for the website .

So here we see categories and if we go to categories , I can also show the both accounts , save it refresh .

And here are two for personal .

So if I click on personal , the category you see category personal , I see two block posts , the first one and the second one because they are both in the category personal .

So in that way , you can categorize your website and link pages to each other .

What else can we do over here ?

Go back to the plug-in area plug in at new .

I can add a Facebook live box or an Instagram live box or Instagram .

Follow area or show your latest Instagram images .

I search for Facebook like box .

Let me grab this one .

I take a look at a lot of installs , a lot of likes and last updated a short time ago .

I click on install now and activate it .

OK ?

The title is like us on Facebook .

Then I go to my Facebook page over here .

We move this copy the link .

Do I want to have a border color ?

No , the width .

You see the result over here .

So I leave it as this uh show faces if you want to .

Yes , you want to show my feet .

No header , image , yes , small header .

If I say yes , then smaller I say no .

And the language is English , I click on save .

Now it's saved .

I go to appearance widgets , so appearance widgets and then I scroll down here is the Facebook like box and I bring it to the main sidebar .

I click on add a widget or you can just drag it like this .

Um Now I refresh the page and on every blog page or blog post , you see our Facebook like box .

So that's how it works with plugins .

I have a video about the 10 best plugins for wordpress free plugins .

You can find it over here .

And now if I go to the block page you also see it , it also can change the order .

So I can say I want this to be on top .

If I refresh the page , it looks like that's awesome .

There's also a different way how to create a block page .

So I will show you how it is done .

First , I go to the back end to the settings and then into reading and here we sign the block page as a post page .

I will click on select so it's not linked anymore to the block page .

I click on , save the changes .

So now if I go to the home page and then to the block page , you will see the block title .

That means that from now on , I can create a block archive page using element in order to do that , I want to make use of a few free extra elements from element or that comes from a third party .

So I go to the back end to plug in at new .

Well , first of all , if you don't have element or you can search over here for element , it's an amazing page builder and then you click on install now and activate , then I click on add new and I search for essential element or elements or essential elements should also be fine , I think .

Awesome .

So I click on essential element or a lot of installations already .

So updated two days ago , I click on activate and since I see something else I saw something about happy elements .

Excuse me , I should go to add new for plugins , then search for it .

And I will add those two .

Those are new .

And I want to see how it looks .

I say no thanks .

No thanks .

And they close it .

So now I want to go to the website again to the block page .

I click on edit page and I click on edit with element or so we have the basic elements over here .

Then we have the general elements also from elemental itself .

And now we see essential allows so advanced accordion advanced des caldera forms call to action content thicker .

So there's a lot of stuff over here all for free .

Then we have Happy Elements , an info box , a card , an item box , a review justified grid .

That's awesome .

So what I want to do over here , I want to have the most recent blog post so I can search for block .

You see nothing .

So I will search not here at basic because that's from element or I think it's from essential adults .

Let me show you or is it E A post timeline can be a possibility or E A post grid .

Let me see .

Let's go for the E A boast grit .

I drag it over here .

And what we see now we see our most recent blog posts and the source is suppose you can also say pages or manual selection .

I click on post or select post , I can say I only want to have them from author 30 .

If you have a multi author website , I can say I only want to have a certain category , self improvement , but I want to show them all or I can say I only want to have something with a certain deck .

So in a format , we can exclude both and pages .

I can exclude as man thinks in his heart and then it will not be shown .

How many posts do I want to show per page ?

Well , how about all of them ?

I say 12 .

If I say offset one , the most recent blog post will not be shown , it will be gone .

That is because if I want to , I can create a new area and only show the most recent blog post in a different way .

I do not do that .

So I click over here again and let me see offset zero .

So the most reason block post will be shown over here , order by date or by post ID or , or random , but I like it to be by date descending .

So the latest one is first , then we have the layout settings , four columns .

I like to say three columns because and they're a bit bigger .

I like that .

I can say a little more .

So yeah , that's what I prefer .

If there are more block posts , I can click over here and more block post will be loaded .

Show the image .

Yes .

If I turn this off , it will not be shown .

Show the title .

Yes , show the excerpt , the text over here .

Yes , excerpt words .

Well , if I turn this off , say nothing .

So if I would say 500 it will show the whole excerpt which I prefer expansion indicator .

If I say there are only 10 words allowed , then you see those three dots over here while I say 500 here I say nothing .

Show the read more button over here .

No people can click over here or on the image show to read more note show the made out information that's OK .

Made a position at the entry or at the footer , entry header , let's say entry footer .

So just the date , the author and the image of the author .

OK , I close this , then I go to the ST we can have a background color .

We can have spacing between all the items .

So if I would say 40 it looks like that , let's say 10 or 20 .

No , then it's fine .

Do I want to have a border ?

Which color like that's I don't want that .

So I say none , we're gonna have a border type , change it to something else .

We can have a radius .

So if I would say 20 it looks a little bit weird .

You see the routing over here but here you don't see it .

So I don't use this , I say zero then we have color and typography .

The color of the link , I can change it to one of my favorite colors .

When you hover over it , it changes to a different color .

We can change the title , we can bring it to the center .

We can change the topography except this area , excerpt typography .

We can change the text of the meta data hover car still .

When you hover over it , what should happen ?

There's a fade in with the color .

I like the color to be the purple one .

And I changed the icon to let me see .

Check .

Is there a check ?

There's a check , inserts , you can change it to whatever you want to have , you can change the size , make it bigger a little more button style .

Of course , you want to change the color too .

A purple one .

So it maintains the style of our website .

When you hover over it , it should be the darker purple one and then we can update it and what I want to do now , I want to go back .

Let me see .

I want to check it .

Then I go to the about page .

I want to copy this area .

So I click on edit with element or and I want to save this area as a template .

How can I do that ?

Right ?

Mouse , click , save as template and I call this about Heather or Hero .

Save it .

Awesome .

I can also save this whole page .

Then I click over here on the arrow up .

Save a stamp about page Rio because I use a background image with Rio de Janeiro .

Now I open the page in the new tap .

I go to the blog page .

I click on edit with element or and now I can click on the plus over here .

Click on this icon , go to my templates and I want to have the about header or the about page Rio insert .

I am sure .

OK .

Awesome .

I click on it to change the settings .

I go to the , I don't want to use the image but I want to use the background overlay .

Make it fully like that , change the angle to 90 .

And then over here I say blog , of course , I want to be a bit less .

Hi .

So I go to the layout , I say 200 update , then I can duplicate this area , track this down or if I cannot do that , I can go to the Navigator and drag this section down like this .

Wow .

Isn't it getting better and better with mentor ?

I'm in contact with these guys from Element or they say in my own words that we've just scratched the surface .

There is so much more that is coming .

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I want to thank you for watching this video .

Have a great day .

Bye bye .

So let's continue with the free version , which is also really amazing .

I click over here and I search for posts .

Now we have the word reason post , I can drag it over here , but it looks a little bit ugly in my opinion .

Then what else post ?

This one is the one we have used over here and there's a different one .

E A post timeline .

So that looks like that we can change it to pages or something else .

Let me go to it really quickly .

How many posts I want to show ?

I want to show them all .

No offset is all fine layout settings .

Show love more .

Yes , love more .

Show the image , show the title if you want to , you can do that over here .

Show the excerpt .

No , only the title .

Then I go to the timeline bullet color .

Well , I like it to be purple .

Everything that seems to have a nice color .

I wanted it to be purple and I go to typography .

The title color is OK .

I want to bring it to the center , make it a bit bigger , change the line out .

Turn that way you can config is like this the more so of course change the color update .

So there's also a way to show your block post .

So there are three ways .

So there are , of course , more ways there are other blocks that can show block post a different way .

It's up to you .

But these are a few free ways to show it like the normal one or the sr one with the right side bar and stuff .

Then we have this one and we have this one and if you go to a certain block post , it will still look the same as it was before with the right sidebar and all that stuff .

So since we talked about it , let's go to the home page , I want to show you a few more things over here .

And now I click on edit with element or , and if you want to , you can click on the plus over here or here below or over here .

I want to duplicate this and then here I want to click on the plus .

So what I want to do , I go over here , I search for both widgets .

What I want to do .

I want to update it .

I want to open it , clicking on the I , then I go to the block page .

I click on edit with element or so over here , right ?

Mouse , click copy over here , right , mouse , click paste .

So that's how easy it is .

You , you copy it from here and you paste it somewhere else in the website and now we can configure it in that way .

We save ourselves a lot of time .

Because we don't have to make this from scratch again .

So what I want to show is the three recent blog posts .

So I want to show three posts by date and that's it .

No load more button .

So let me see .

Layout settings , load more .

No .

What I personally do not like is that this title is too long because now it's in two lines and here's one on one .

So it's not aligned perfectly .

But you know what I'm fine with it .

Then I click on the plus over here and I want to go for a header and I say most recent blog post , bring this to the center .

I changed the style to capitals , change the color to this one and give it a bit more space 20 like that .

I can go to the back end to plug ins .

I add a new one and that one is recent boasts with thumb nails and it is from Martin , a lot of installations , a lot of likes .

So this one is great .

I click on install now activate .

So there it is .

Now I go to parents widgets which is area three .

I removed their recent posts .

And then let me see over here recent posts with thumbnails .

I go for food area three at the widget area .

So there are a lot of options .

The title can be recent posts .

Number of posts show how about three open links in the window ?

No , showed him in the random order .

No , do not show the current post .

So if you are on a certain block post , that post will not be shown in his widget , which is really nice .

You can take a look at how you want to configure this .

I think it's all perfect .

All categories show a thumbnail .

Of course , if I say this and I refreshed the beach , it looks like this and it's a lot better so we can wrap this up if we go to the block page , this is what we have made .

If I go to the blog post , as a man thinks in his heart and I click on edit post , we have created this post using the Gutenberg editor .

We talked about paragraphs , blocks , images , styling your block post , adding different plugins that will give you more functionalities in your website .

We talked about the settings of all the individual block elements but also the document settings like categories , tags featured image schedule posts , the excerpt comments , the templates and the extra settings over here .

Then we create a block page using the theme , something like this .

And I've shown you how to create a block page using the element of page builder , something like this or something like this .

And then I showed you how to end that late three blog post in your home page .

I want to thank you for watching this video .

I hope you learned a ton of stuff .

Feel free to leave a comment to like this video to subscribe for more upcoming videos and then you'll see me in the next video .

Bye bye .