GenerateBlocks is a new powerful set of Gutenberg blocks that allow you to create any number of layouts, the possibilities are endless. I do a brief overview of how the blocks work and how to use them with the Gutenberg editor.
I noticed alpha improvements up to the repository version. Congratulations Tom and Mike. Excited to put something into production with this. Thank you here from Brazil.
I learned more from this video than both GP and GB sites combined. Thanks, Mike! Tip for the next viewer... watching at 1.25 speed really moves this tutorial along.
Awesome. I'm new to GeneratePress, I bought straight away the pro license yesterday. I'm not a professional designer but did quite a good job with my 10 year old WP site. Now it's bloated and dated, time to change. It was quite intimidating at first to see such a black slate and the Gutenberg page builder, but after a few tutorials I see a lot of potential. I love it. Thanks for this, very clear and intuitive.
Some of this was a revelation. I'd never have considered turning off most of the blocks... I have GP premium but have found some of it a bit unwieldy. GB looks just the job.Thanks.
Thanks Mike. This is a perfect explanation of GeneratBlocks. 30 minutes full of valuable knowledge - WOW - thank you so much. Aand you gave us some pretty nice ideas about how to structure a page. If I got it right all is done without using the Header Container form GPP > Layout > Header. Thanks a lot.
So sorry for the delay, I missed a lot of comments. The Layout>Header spacing controls the space above and below the logo/navigation, which would apply if you page header Elements are not merged. If they are merged those settings still apply and would just add to header padding settings in your header element.
This is great thanks! I’ve just started using Generate Press the past week- working on my site in a staging area- and discovered Generate Blocks. Been learning more the past few days and I’m enjoying it and understanding WP better, I’m stopping to use Elementor, Thanks for the tutorials, learning a lot.
Thank you Mike for this excellent video. You have helped me a lot to make a final decision. I'm going to use Gutenberg + GP Blocks with my existing GP Premium, and leave behind Elementor.
Awesome video Mike. I was hesitant to use Gblocks for quite awhile and just recently started adding them to sites. But THIS takes blocks to a whole new level! No more Lightweight Grid Columns or page builders for me anymore. GP + GPP + GB are shaping to to be the ultimate trifecta for WordPress site builds. Thanks for putting this video together.
Paul Racko I really appreciate that Paul, I did this video in a rush and I was hoping it would help. I’m gonna start doing short GPP & GB videos building out certain layouts on the fly so people can see some more examples in action. I plan to do one tomorrow.
@@MikeOliverDesign Sounds awesome. Your video inspired me to play around with GB. When I couldn't find a built-in option to vertically center a child container block within a parent container block, I put together a few lines of CSS that works like a charm. I posted it to the GeneratePress community on FB. Feel free to check it out and add it to your blocks!
Awesome tutorial Mr. Mike, Thank you so much for sharing it. very nicely explaining about each and everything details including Reusable Block and how to make it Regular Block this thing I wondering since a long time but after watching your tutorial I learned the same. Please keep sharing more tutorial videos for us. Thank you so much :)
I am considering ditching Elementor. Just discovered GP and heard about GenerateBlocks. You're the first video I watch about it. A real eye-opener. May well get rid of TinyMCE as well. Thank you for your demo.
Thank you, Mike! I hope that you're planning to add some more videos about GenerateBlocks. I'm a professional illustrator and there's not many tutorials about portfolio websites. Anyway, thanks very much. You are so helpful.
Hi Mike, Thanks for your GeneratePress courses, I finally found some useful materials on this topic. Finally I decided to build my websites with GeneratePress based on several studies from different sources, and as a thank you for your time and production of this material I will a little bit support your channel by purchasing GP Premium through your referral link. P.S.1. : there is no affiliate link in most of your videos :-) P.S.2.: I think newbies like me would appreciate a complete course (video, ebook, ...) from A to Z for this excellent web builder. Just an idea. Big greetings from Eastern Europe, Slovakia :-)
Thanks I really appreciate it. I haven't been doing RU-vid videos much lately and never pushed the affiliate thing too much. I did have a course, but now have a community that is an ongoing monthly membership for training, templates, etc. If you're interested you can get more info at wbcollective.dev/
Gareth Wynn Nope just make sure that the classic editor plug-in isn’t installed and you’ll just use the normal block editor which is basically the same thing
Thanks, Mike, great overview. It's nice to be able to design the header in GenerateBlocks and all but then you wouldn't be able to reuse it conditionally for other pages. You could add it as a reusable block but then you would have to keep adding it to all pages you create and for big projects that would be cumbersome. I think the header element feels more robust for this kind of stuff. I mentioned Tom the fact that it would be great to have the block editor inside the header Element, as well. We could also have reusable blocks in there.
George I think that’s the plan to integrate elements and GB. I personally use element headers everywhere for the reason you wrote, just used the blocks for this demo.
@@ThePistonPit I made a GP&GB course that is a step by step tutorial. Here is some more info if you are interested… mikeoliver.me/generatepress-generateblocks-course/
Awesome tutorial. Are you able to implement parallax effects on BG images on container background image in GenerateBlocks? I *cannot* figure out this one thing...
Alessandro Papa It’s a free plug-in and there will be a premium version down the road. You can download the latest alpha here, it is very stable, I’m using it on about 10 live sites. generateblocks.com/install/
Hi Mike, thank you so much for the video. GenerateBlocks seems to be the perfect addition for GeneratePress. Is there also a toogle / accordion block available soon? thanks
Meow - the cat got a little impatient in the end :) I asked on facebook as well but would it be possible to play with some of your template layouts via JSON? Just to get started and feel the vibe.
Mike - you have a talent with tutorials, thanks for making this! Question: will using GenerateBlocks add any bloat to the output of the GeneratePress theme?
Thanks Jocelyn, GenerateBlocks is lighter than using a pagebuilder, is that what you mean by bloat? So if you had a website using GeneratePress and a pagebuilder, that same website using GenerateBlocks instead of the pagebuilder will be lighter.
Like you I used to hate Gutenberg at first and installed the classic editor for posts. My pages were created using elementor but generatepress was my theme which I used for headers and footers. After Google changed the way it displayed reviews in serps I tried a review block that returned my stars in serps and began to prefer Gutenberg. The only thing that confuses me is why WordPress has Gutenberg installed in core WordPress but also as a plugin and why you prefer it as a plugin. I just use the core version and to be honest like you mentioned I only use a handful of block types on my posts.
Can someone point me to how to create an archive page? I need to setup dynamic grids with blog posts populated... I can't find any instructions and the new query loop function still hasn't been officially released.
Vim, I have a video covering this in my course (which is closed currently). I made the video available to the public, you can view it here… tinyurl.com/2p8um5wa
One question - You said you prefer the Gutenberg plug-in vs the native gutenberg editor in Wordpress. Is this still true now that WP 5.4 has been released (since you did the video)?
Hi Mike. Thanks so much for this video, it has really helped us in getting a better understanding not only of Generate Blocks but Gutenburg itself. The potential seems amazing. In reply to an earlier question, you said you were putting a training course together, possibly for Udemy. Any further news on that? We are definitely interested. Off to look at some more of your videos....
Thanks Phillip. glad the videos help. I still have plans for a course related to building a site from scratch with GP and GB, I've just been busy with work non-stop. I'm probably going to use Podia for the course to save some time and get it out quicker.
@@MikeOliverDesign Agree with other comments, apart from the Udemy bit. My advice from actual experience...put a short free taster course out there and deliver your full course from some other platform. If you're thinking the Wordpress route Learndash seems to be the best LMS from my research.
@@MikeOliverDesign Thank you. I will check that video out. I know you published this video a while ago, thank you so much for monitoring the comments and getting back to me :)
I see it replacing the heading, cover, buttons, columns, group, spacer, social icons and all the embed blocks. I turn off a lot of the Gutenberg blocks I do not use anyway such as most of the widgets, audio, video, etc. So far I have noticed I can build out most sites with the 4 GenerateBlocks and maybe 5 or so Gutenberg blocks. Everyone is different, but for me, the average small business website doesn't need most of the Gutenberg blocks turned on.
Hang on... Back up a mo! You install the Gutenberg plugin - even though it already comes with WP5? I had no idea the built-in version and the plugin version were different. Care to explain a little more?
Great content. You should put some training on Udemy. I think you could build a good following on that platform and I would pay for the content. Would love to see you put a full tut together from start to finish with a GP theme and Generate Blocks.
I'm a little late to the party, just discovering GB and I'm now going to work to convert my Elementor sites. Question: Why do you use the Gutenberg Plugin?
Once you build a few sites with blocks and get used to it, in my opinion it's actually easier than using a pagebuilder. Plus you get a much leaner and faster website.
