The paragraph block is the default block type.  It should not have any alignment of any kind. It should just flow like you would normally expect. Nothing fancy. Just straight up text, free flowing, with love.

This paragraph is left aligned.

This italic paragraph is right aligned.

Neither of these paragraphs care about politics, but this one is bold, medium sized and has a drop cap.

This paragraph is centered.

This paragraph prefers Jazz over Justin Timberlake. It also uses the small font size.

This paragraph has something important to say:  It has a large font size, which defaults to 36px.

The huge text size defaults to 46px, but the size can be customized.

This paragraph is colorful, with a red background and white text (maybe). Colored blocks should have a high enough contrast, so that the text is readable.

Below this block, you will see a single image with a circle mask applied.

H1 Heading

H2 Heading

H3 Heading

H4 Heading

H5 Heading

H6 Heading

Ordered list

0. The software should be licensed under the GNU Public License.
1. The software should be freely available to anyone to use for any purpose, and without permission.
2. The software should be open to modifications.
   1. Any modifications should be freely distributable at no cost and without permission from its creators.
3. The software should provide a framework for translation to make it globally accessible to speakers of all languages.
4. The software should provide a framework for extensions so modifications and enhancements can be made without modifying core code

Unordered list

• One
• Two
• Three
  • Four
• Five

Quote

Cite

Cover block with background image

The file block has a setting that lets us show or hide a download button with editable text:

Video blocks have settings for showing and hiding the playback controls. Use autoplay and playback controls responsibly.

The video block below is muted and has a poster image that displays before the video starts:

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The Archive Widget:

• September 2024 (1)
• November 2018 (5)
• October 2018 (1)
• January 2013 (3)
• March 2012 (5)
• January 2012 (4)
• March 2011 (1)
• October 2010 (1)
• September 2010 (2)
• August 2010 (3)
• July 2010 (1)
• June 2010 (2)
• May 2010 (1)
• April 2010 (1)
• March 2010 (1)
• February 2010 (1)
• January 2010 (1)
• October 2009 (1)
• September 2009 (1)
• August 2009 (1)
• July 2009 (1)
• June 2009 (1)
• May 2009 (1)

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:

• Hello world!September 27, 2024
• Block category: CommonNovember 1, 2018
• Block category: EmbedsNovember 1, 2018
• Block category: WidgetsNovember 1, 2018
• Block category: Layout ElementsNovember 1, 2018

Grid view, now sorted from A -Z.

• (no title)
• Block category: Common
• Block category: Embeds
• Block category: Formatting
• Block category: Layout Elements

You can also change the number of columns used to display the latest posts. The block below only displays posts from the Block category:

• Edge Case: Many CategoriesJuly 2, 2009

Search widget:

Tag Cloud widget:

Post Formats quote readability read more shortcode standard status Success Swagger Tags template tiled title trackbacks twitter Unseen video videopress WordPress wordpress.tv

RSS Feed widget:

• Themes Team Meeting Agendas for January 27, 2026
• Introducing new Themes Team representatives for the 2026
• X-post: Proposal: 2026 Major Release Schedule
• Nominations Call for the themes team representatives: 2026 Edition
• Themes team meeting notes for September 23, 2025

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Media &Text

For displaying media and text next to each other. By default, the media is to the left.

This time our block is full width, and the image is to the right.

The background color is a pale blue. 

Test to make sure that the editor and the front match. To test the Stack on mobile setting, reduce the browser window width.

The control these settings, the block uses the css classes “has-media-on-the-right” and “is-stacked-on-mobile”.

The separator has three styles: default, wide line, and dots.

The spacer block has a default height of 100 pixels:

And finally, the page break:

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The code block starts with
<!-- wp:code -->
<?php echo 'Hello World'; ?>

The classic block can have almost anything in it.

a heading

The preformatted block.

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost 
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both          (\_/)  
And be one traveler, long I stood         (='.'=)  
And looked down one as far as I could     (")_(")  
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 

Then took the other, as just as fair,  
And having perhaps the better claim,          |\_/|  
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;       / @ @ \  
Though as for that the passing there        ( > º < )  
Had worn them really about the same,         `>>x<<´  
                                             /  O  \  
And both that morning equally lay  
In leaves no step had trodden black.  
Oh, I kept the first for another day!  
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,  
I doubted if I should ever come back.  
I shall be telling this with a sigh  
Somewhere ages and ages hence:  
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—  
I took the one less traveled by,  
And that has made all the difference.  



and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how it is handled and to find out how it overflows;

The Verse block

A block for haiku? 
  Why not? 
    Blocks for all the things!

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