Block category: Common

The Common category includes the following blocks: Paragraph, image, headings, list, gallery, quote, audio, cover, video.

The paragraph block is the default block type.  It should not have any alignment of any kind. It should just flow like you would normally expect. Nothing fancy. Just straight up text, free flowing, with love.

This paragraph is left aligned.

This italic paragraph is right aligned.

Neither of these paragraphs care about politics, but this one is bold, medium sized and has a drop cap.

This paragraph is centered.

This paragraph prefers Jazz over Justin Timberlake. It also uses the small font size.

This paragraph has something important to say:  It has a large font size, which defaults to 36px.

The huge text size defaults to 46px, but the size can be customized.

This paragraph is colorful, with a red background and white text (maybe). Colored blocks should have a high enough contrast, so that the text is readable.

Below this block, you will see a single image with a circle mask applied.

Image Alignment 150x150

H1 Heading

H2 Heading

H3 Heading

H4 Heading

H5 Heading
H6 Heading

Ordered list

  1. The software should be licensed under the GNU Public License.
  2. The software should be freely available to anyone to use for any purpose, and without permission.
  3. The software should be open to modifications.
    1. Any modifications should be freely distributable at no cost and without permission from its creators.
  4. The software should provide a framework for translation to make it globally accessible to speakers of all languages.
  5. The software should provide a framework for extensions so modifications and enhancements can be made without modifying core code

Unordered list

  • One
  • Two
  • Three
    • Four
  • Five

Quote
Cite

Cover block with background image

The file block has a setting that lets us show or hide a download button with editable text:

Video blocks have settings for showing and hiding the playback controls. Use autoplay and playback controls responsibly.

This is a video block caption.

The video block below is muted and has a poster image that displays before the video starts:


Block category: Embeds

This post tests various embed blocks:

https://twitter.com/WordPress/status/1057136472321613824
Twitter,  wide width
https://youtu.be/ex8fMxXJDJw
YouTube
https://www.facebook.com/6427302910/posts/10156380423617911/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpmueLLgEn_/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1hcxphic7p9e2
https://wordpress.tv/2018/10/14/kjell-reigstad-allan-cole-how-we-made-our-first-gutenberg-powered-theme/
WordPress TV, full width

Block category: Widgets

The shortcode widget:



The Archive Widget:

The same Archive widget but as a dropdown:

The Category widget block has an additional option for showing category hierarchies:

The Latest Comments widget can display or hide the avatars, the date, and the comment excerpt:

Here is an example of the Comments widget with all the options disabled. The number of comments has been reduced to two.

And here is the Latest Posts widget in the list view, with dates:

Grid view, now sorted from A -Z.

You can also change the number of columns used to display the latest posts. The block below only displays posts from the Block category:

Search widget:

Tag Cloud widget:

RSS Feed widget:


Block category: Layout Elements

The Layout Elements category includes the following blocks: Group, Button, Columns, Media & Text, separator, spacer, read more, and page break.

This group block has a light green background color.

The read more block should be right below this text, but only on list pages of themes that show the full content. It won't show on the single page or on themes showing excerpts.

Read more


Block category: Formatting

The formatting category includes the following blocks:

The code block starts with
<!-- wp:code -->
<?php echo 'Hello World'; ?>

The classic block can have almost anything in it.


a heading
The custom HTML block lets you put HTML that isn't configured like blocks in it. (this div has a width of 45%)
The preformatted block.

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both (\_/)
And be one traveler, long I stood (='.'=)
And looked down one as far as I could (")_(")
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim, |\_/|
Because it was grassy and wanted wear; / @ @ \
Though as for that the passing there ( > º < )
Had worn them really about the same, `>>x<<´
/ O \
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.



and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how it is handled and to find out how it overflows;

The pull quote can be aligned or wide or neither.
Theme Reviewer

The table block This is the default style.
The cell next to this is empty.
Cell #5 Cell #6
This is the striped style. This row should have a background color.
The cell next to this is empty.
This table has fixed width table cells.
Make sure that the text wraps correctly.

The Verse block

A block for haiku?
Why not?
Blocks for all the things!