WordPress Full Site Editing with Gutenberg

Gutenberg was launched as an integrated part of WordPress 5.0.  Gutenberg was the name given to the new block editor that replaced the Classic WYSIWYG editor that we’d been using since the early versions of WordPress. 

Gutenberg is the editor of choice as you create the content for your WordPress posts and pages.  There’s blocks for headers, blocks for images, blocks for text.  And blocks for just about anything else you’d want to add to a web page.  You can build your posts and pages by dragging the blocks onto, and around, the editor.  As you build the content of your web pages, your WordPress theme controls other aspects of your site, like the header and footer areas.

But Gutenberg has just had it’s biggest ever update in WordPress 5.9.  Full Site Editing!  This is often abbreviated to FSE, but what does this mean?

Using the same block editor (Gutenberg) you’ve been using for your content, you can now edit and design the headers and footers for your website. So you design the bit at the top of the page, the bit at the bottom, and the bit in the middle.  That means you now have total control over the design of your website.  That is Full Site Editing.