WordPress Editor

The WordPress Editor lets you create and design pages, posts, and your site’s structure. In this guide, you’ll learn how to access the editor and find resources for creating content.

You can access the WordPress Editor in different ways depending on what you want to edit.

To edit your website’s structure, navigate to Appearance → Editor in your dashboard. From here, you can edit:

• Menus, header, and footer.
• Site templates, which control the layout used by pages and posts.
• Patterns, which are reusable content you can add across multiple parts of your site.

To create or edit a page from your site’s dashboard, follow these steps:

1. Click on Pages in the menu on the left.
2. Click the “Add Page” button to create a new page, or click the title of an existing page to edit it.

You can also create or edit pages through the Site Editor by following these steps:

1. From your site’s dashboard, navigate to Appearance → Editor.
2. Select Pages on the left side.
3. Click the “Add Page” button to create a new page, or hover over a page and select the Edit option to the left of the page title.

To write new posts or edit existing posts, follow these steps:

1. From your site’s dashboard, click on Posts.
2. Click the “Add Post” button to create a new post, or click the title of an existing post to edit it.

Our dedicated guides below cover how to create content and modify your website.

Use these guides to learn the basics of editing with the WordPress editor.

• Introduction to the WordPress editor
• Add content using blocks
• Write text in WordPress

Learn how to move, remove, and undo changes to blocks.

• Select and move blocks
• Remove a block
• Undo your changes

Learn how to adjust block settings, change content width, and explore all available blocks.

• Change a block’s settings
• Change the width of your content
• Blocks (the full list)

Learn how to edit your site’s templates, menus, header, and footer.

• Use the Site Editor
• Working with templates
• Add and edit menus
• Edit the header
• Edit the footer

Work more efficiently with reusable patterns, keyboard shortcuts, and personalized editor settings.

• Use block patterns
• Create a pattern
• Keyboard shortcuts in the editor
• Personalize the WordPress editor