• Block Editor
• Plugins : make life easier
• Widgets
• Read the Docs

I had never thought from the perspective of a primitive user trying to put his blogs on the internet having no knowledge in coding or anything.

WordPress has made it very easy to build the site we want, the way we want it to be with little to no knowledge in coding.

What exactly is a website, even if we are trying to build something very unique its building blocks are already there. We can even create a full e commerce site and manage it using WordPress.

Gutenberg Block Editor

We can create posts and pages for our site using the block editor, it has almost everything we need to design a site. We can also extend the blocks available using plugins and themes.

Everything is made up of blocks, this paragraph, the image you see below

If you have some knowledge of coding you can even customize it more to your liking but mostly it is not necessary for many use cases.

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For our assignment, had to add a subscription form and contact us form in our site. Used NinjaForm Plugin to do that in minutes, just had to design the form and use its shortcode in the Gutenberg editor to put it on the site.

Plugins do really make it easier for us to do things on our sites, want the functionality of a social media site?, use BuddyPress. Want to create an e-commerce site? use WooCommerce, want to filter spam comments use Akismet.

Widgets are components that add some functionality to your site, like a search widget that will allow users to search through content of your site, or a widget that makes call to an api and fetches latest movie ratings.

Widget to list all your posts or to select a date from calendar, all this features can be added with minimum to no code using widgets to out site.

Its always better to read the documentation of the product you are using. Yeah, it is good if you learn by doing but knowing some things beforehand really makes it easy.

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Summary:

Had a productive week, learned a lot of things (most of them from mistakes!).