Post Format: Video (YouTube)

WordPress can embed both YouTube and Vimeo videos that are public and “unlisted”. A search for “video” in the Blocks area yields a lot of options. Admittedly, it’s confusing to have so many options to embed a video on your WordPress page. I would ignore the “Common Blocks”. Here is some guidance for the other …

Post Format: Aside

This is the “Aside” Post format. WordPress defines “Aside” as a brief snippet of text that isn’t substantial enough to feel like a complete blog post. Someone on the WordPress forum says that “Asides  (1) do have URLs, (2) you can assign Categories to them, and (3) they do appear in your RSS feed. :)” …

Post Format: Chat

This is what “Chat” text looks like when it comes over from WordPress Classic to Gutenberg WordPress. Abbott: Strange as it may seem, they give ball players nowadays very peculiar names. Costello: Funny names? Abbott: Nicknames, nicknames. Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know is …

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Title should not overflow the content area A few things to check for: Non-breaking text in the title, content, and comments should have no adverse effects on layout or functionality. Check the browser window / tab title. If you are a plugin or widget developer, check that this text does not break anything. The following …

This post has no title, but it still must link to the single post view somehow. This is typically done by placing the permalink on the post date.

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