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WordPress Block Editor

A modern, modular block-based content editing system and developer platform for WordPress.

Field note

What it does

The Block Editor uses a modular system of blocks to compose and format content, designed to create rich and flexible layouts. It is a powerful developer platform with APIs for manipulation and extension.

Capabilities

Available capabilities

Rich flexible layouts Visual Circuit Editing Block API Custom Block Development

A quick overview of the registration functions

WordPress Block Editor

What it does

Available capabilities

Tags

Ways to use it

Product features

A quick overview of the registration functions

An example collection and icon

Building an icon registration plugin

Bundling icons in plugin

Defining the icon data structure

Hands-on with the WordPress 7.1 Icon Registration API

How to register icons

Load the plugin files and bootstrap

Outputting icons

Plugin setup

Registering the icons with WordPress

The missing pieces: what you can’t yet do