Block: Button
Button blocks are not semantically buttons, but links inside a styled div. If you do not add a link, a link tag without an anchor will be used. Check to make sure that the text wraps correctly when the button has more than one line of text, and when it is extra long. Buttons have three styles: If the theme has a custom color palette, test that background color and text color settings work correctly. Now lets test how buttonsRead More…
Block: Cover
The cover block lets you add text on top of images or videos. This blocktype has several alignment options, and you can also align or center the text inside the block. The background image can be fixed and you can change its opacity and add an overlay color. Make sure that the text wraps correctly over the image, and that text markup and alignments are working. The next image should have a pink overlay color, the text should be boldRead More…
Block: Gallery
Gallery blocks have two settings: the number of columns, and whether or not images should be cropped. The default number of columns is three, and the maximum number of columns is eight. Below is a three column gallery at full width, with cropped images. Some more text for taking up space. A two column gallery, aligned to the left, linked to media file. In the editor, the image captions can be edited directly by clicking on the text. If theRead More…
Block: Columns
This page tests how the theme displays the columns block. The first block tests a two column block with paragraphs. This is the second column. It should align next to the first column. Reduce the browser window width to test the responsiveness. This is the second column block. It has 3 columns. Paragraph 2 is in the middle. Paragraph 3 is in the last column. The third column block has 4 columns. Make sure that all the text is visibleRead More…
Block: Quote
The quote block has two styles, regular: Gutenberg is more than an editor. The Gutenberg Team and large: Yes, it is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams, the most abundant and most marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of men! Johannes Gutenberg The quote blocks themselves have no alignments but the text can be aligned, bold, italic, and linked: Right Theme Review In addition to the quote block, we alsoRead More…
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, nowRead More…
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.