Try Our New Tools for Creating Beautiful Sites
Last week we opened up limited access to a revolutionary array of new site editing tools that will transform how you create, edit, and update the look and feel of your WordPress.com website by leveraging easy-to-use drag and drop functionality.
Today we’re excited to announce that the wait is over. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be rolling these new tools out to all of our customers. Here’s what that means for you.
Exciting Features Included in This Release
List view for dragging and dropping your content
Until now, you’ve been able to create and customize the key content on your posts and pages by dragging and dropping blocks into any arrangement and style you can think of.
Full Site Editing takes that same idea a giant leap further.
The headers, footers, menus, and other elements of the page previously only editable behind the scenes are now at your complete control via the block editor you’re already used to using. That means you can drag, drop, and visually edit any and all parts of your site without a line of code or an admin dashboard in sight.
Any page, any post, any way
With the new Site Editor, you’ll also be able to take total control of the look and feel of specific page templates. From your home page to individual posts, your 404 page to your blog archive, FSE gives you quick, granular control of the design of each and every element of your site.
Instant visual feedback
Speaking of granular control, the integrated Styles tool gives you an easy-access way to make subtle or site-wide changes using an intuitive suite of visual design tools. From your global color palette to fine-tuning your typography, building out a beautiful, consistent look and feel is now an instantaneous, hands-on experience.
What this means for you
You’ll be pleased to hear that you don’t need to take any action at all, whether you have an existing site or are about to create a new one. You’ll be able to continue editing your site in exactly the same way you always have by choosing not to use the new block themes.
For new sites
In the coming days, all new sites will give you the chance to choose a theme that takes full advantage of the new Full Site Editing experience. We’ll be rolling out new resources, guides, and help docs to get you up to speed, fast.
For existing sites
Over the next few weeks, we will be rolling out the ability to switch your existing site over to a theme that will give you access to these features. This won’t be automatically switched, so watch out for an announcement and the details on how to access these new tools.
The WordPress.com advantage
If you follow the wider Open Source WordPress project, you might have heard of ‘releases’ or ‘versions’ of WordPress. Full Site Editing incorporates the tools and features added to WordPress in the latest release, WordPress 5.9, which went out on January 25th.
As the fastest WordPress managed hosting provider on the planet, WordPress.com includes everything you’d expect from WordPress 5.9 hosted elsewhere, with blazing fast site speeds and specialized integration into our platform to help ensure that all of our users have a great first experience with these exciting new features from day one. We’d love to hear what you think of the new experience and are always on hand to answer any questions you have as you make the switch.
Ready to get started?
We’re dedicated to helping you get the most out of the new Site Editor experience.
If you’re eager to get started, you might find these extra resources a great next step:
- Check out a great overview of Full Site Editing in action in the official WordPress 5.9 intro video
- Keep an eye out for our upcoming webinars on Full Site Editing.
- Check out some of the detailed deep-dive content in our support docs.
- February 4, 2022
- Design
Sounds similar to webflow!
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I just registered for the Full Site Editing webinar. I selected 9 Feb with a given time of 7PM as I am not available earlier. When I went to look at the Zoom connection it is listed as 2 PM not 7 PM. Is this an east coast vs west coast issue or ?? Please clarify. Thank you
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Hi, all of our webinars are scheduled in the UTC time zone, you can see the conversion chart here: https://wordpress.com/webinars/
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Every time I try to work on my site, I ruin it a bit more. I sure would hate to lose it. I love WordPress, but I worked hard to learn it and now I know nothing. It’s supposed to be easier! Why does it feel completely impossible? 😥
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Join our webinars and, if you need help with anything particular, our support team will be there for you: https://wordpress.com/help/contact.
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Please send me a link so that I may sign-in as I forgot my password. Thank you. I also tried thru Apple and still could not sign in. Thank you, Carlos Duran
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 12:14 PM WordPress.com News wrote:
> Ben Sailer posted: ” Earlier this month we announced that we were giving > some customers early access to Full Site Editing, a new set of powerful > tools to give you more control over every aspect of your site’s design. > Now, we’re excited to let you know Full Site Editing will ” >
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Carlos, please check out this page and fill out the Account Recovery form to regain access to your account:
https://wordpress.com/support/account-recovery/.
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But cannot access my own profile.
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 12:37 PM WordPress.com News wrote:
> Ben Sailer posted: ” Earlier this month we announced that we were giving > some customers early access to Full Site Editing, a new set of powerful > tools to give you more control over every aspect of your site’s design. > Now, we’re excited to let you know Full Site Editing will ” >
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You’ll want to check out this page: https://wordpress.com/support/account-recovery/.
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So I CAN switch to a new theme, but it won’t be done for me. Does it mean that I have the option to keep things how they are? And is going to remain the case forever or will my page become ‘outdated’ by the end of the year or something when I will be forced to change?
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If you don’t activate any of the new block themes, you’ll be able to continue editing your site the old way.
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I can no longer se the Help link in the Editor. I need to ask a couple of questions in reference to the slide show block
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You can reach out to support via https://wordpress.com/help/contact
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Oh, I do hope this includes drag and drop text. I look forward to finding out.
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How can I get some help with this? Threw my wordpress and my youtube page
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Support for WordPress.com sites can be found at https://wordpress.com/help/contact.
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When the updates are complete WordPress will help with any query. Just contact WordPress Support.
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Is such an amazing thing
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Thanks for doing this update!
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How do I go about it and what are the subscription plan
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You can read more about our plans here:
https://wordpress.com/pricing/.
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I’ve noticed that you can’t delete your own posts after you post them in a domain account thread.
Does it works similarly in free account like mine?which includes WordPress.com url name?
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I’m not sure what do you mean by domain account thread? Feel free to share more details directly via https://wordpress.com/help/contact, it’s the best place to get answers to all your WordPress.com-related questions. Thanks!
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For example I’ve posted a phrase in a name.com domain and I couldn’t delete it likewise I’ve posted a phrase in a name.wordpress.com blog and the author of the thread deleted it
If someone posts in my blogs can I delete if I want to their posts? Although Im in a free plan?
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Site owners have complete control over comments on their own sites, and if you comment on someone else’s site, they are able to delete your comments if they want to. If someone comments on your site, you also have the ability to delete their comments.
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Does that means that they can delete their own posts in an article of them?besides putting down a complete article.
Because you’ve said they have complete control
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A blog owner can delete any post, page or comment published on their own site, yes, regardless who posted it. If you own the site, you own and control all content on the site.
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Its to good place get all answer.
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cool
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I am looking forward to getting more information, especially on how to remove a feture from my posts.
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Like this features, good job!
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Nice one
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Great
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This is so grate
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Thanks for the new update with exciting options
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I hope this helps with the look of the text being spaced out and having a weird layout/format.
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Nice
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Amazing
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This is so great
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This is so great!
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Yeah is so gray
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Is such an amazing thing
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Thanks for all the new ideas. Somehow I didn’t want the Block Editor and it has been done. I do not much like it as some of what I want done is hard to be doing it. After going on over 6 years!
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It is a transition, but if you need help, we’re here!
https://wordpress.com/help/contact
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Conradulation to you guys
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This is really huge. Weldone 👍
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Thanks I really like it and so enjoyable
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Great job thanks again
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I like WordPress so much
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Im having a lot of trouble im illiterate when it comes to this kind of stuff though
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I love it
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I like WordPress so much
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Yeah❤️.
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It would be greate if WordPress mobile app has more options, to create content from mobile phone sometimes.
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Not everything that’s possible in a desktop browser works in a mobile app, but the apps team is constantly working to add support for more block editor features to the mobile apps. If there’s anything specific you’re missing, you can let our support team know – if the feature already exists they’ll point you to where you can find it, or else they can open a feature request with our development teams 🙂
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Amazing updates, thanks WordPress!!
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Yea I kinda figured it out just a while before your comment
I found it on the dashboard/comments section of the site tools thanks anyway
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Looking for it. Many updates making me exciting . let try it all. list view, instant feedback, site editor, ect.. love it.
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It’s awesome.
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thanks, I really appreciate it
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Didn’t get what going on 😊but I know for sure that I love WordPress and will sign in for webinar
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This comment may not be related to the present post but thought I should seek advise. I need to improve my blog which I started a very long time ago. It is not a business blog but a personal one which I wanted to use as a spring board for my writing aspiration.
I did not post regularly on the blog for a long time, I now want to write more often which WordPress platform can I get help to do that?
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Such great information! It is always nice learning what is new and being offered to create a better website experience for the creator and the customers.
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