Gutenberg's most useful blocks
Paragraph
The paragraph block is very like a paragraph in your word processor. Just type into a paragraph and the text will wrap at the end onto the next line. Press enter to move to the next paragraph, or Shift-enter to make a new line in the same paragraph (when typing a verse for example).
The default gap between paragraphs is set (fixed) by the theme, but Gutenberg allows you to set
The Main Menu
About the different formats of links:
A link starting https:// is an external link ( to a page outside our website)
A link starting with a / is an internal link ( to a page within our site )
/page/…. links to an item of content type Page+ or 'Book Page +'
/article/… links to an item of content type Article+
/resource-category/… links to the view showing resources in a single category
Contact Forms
A Site-wide contact form
Gutenberg blocks
Adding a block in the editor
There are three ways in which you can add a block.
USWDS blocks
This module provides the following USWDS 3 components for Gutenberg editor. The components are distributed in sub-modules to make them easier to maintain and filter. USWDS is a design system for the USA federal government which aims make it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites.
Announcement of Appointments
The appointment of a new Safeguarding Officer and Mission Development Officer.
(Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash )
Login & Password
To Log in simply visit
Linking to other pages
Here I will describe how to create a link to:-
Media (images, videos, docs &c.)
In our website we use Drupal's Media Manager to handle our images - and our videos, audio files and documents (files) in one consistent user interface.
The Media Manager brings with it the Media Library which makes it easy to re-use existing media - upload it once, use it many times.
External Gutenberg Tutorials (Videos & Text)
A quick search of the internet shows that there are many video and text tutorials for Gutenberg.
Most of these are for the WordPress implementation, which looks a bit different from the Drupal version because Drupal does things differently from, and offers more than, WordPress.
In particular, the Drupal version uses . .