Text Blocks

Available blocks: Paragraph | Heading | List | Quote | Details | Pullquote | Table | Footnotes | Classic

Paragraph Block

Start typing to create a new paragraph block. Every paragraph is its own block. You can select and move multiple blocks, if needed.

Color Options

Paragraph text only has three colors to choose from: Warm Black (default), Dark Gray and White. Only use white on dark backgrounds if the text is not automatically converted. These color options are shared with the heading block.

• This option should be used very sparingly.
• You cannot color a single word within the paragraph or header block – it is all or nothing.
• To keep with accessibility standards, dark text should only be used on light backgrounds and light text should only be used on dark backgrounds.

Typography Options

Available typography customizations are font family and size. To see styles, click on the styles icon (half-filled circle).

Font Family

The default paragraph text is Suisse Works (serif). You can choose Gibson (sans serif) by clicking on the three dots in the corner of Typography, selecting Font family and choosing Gibson from the dropdown. This is hidden by default because it should be used only in special cases.

Font Size

Rather than using headings for larger font sizes, you can change the size of paragraph text in the Styles Tab under Typography > Size. Smaller font sizes can be used for captions or notes.

The font sizes are:

Heading Block

Introduce new sections and organize content to help visitors (and search engines) understand the structure of your content. Only use headings where a header is needed – do not use them for the larger font size.

To easily add a heading into the content area, start typing /h2 /h3 or /h4 and press enter. Remember to keep headings in order. Headings have similar options to the paragraph block.

Color Options

Headings have the same color options as paragraphs.

Typography Options

Available typography options are font family, size and letter case.

Font Size

H2 Small

h2 Medium

H2 Default

H2 Large

H2 XLarge

H2 XXLarge

H3 Small

h3 Medium

H3 Default

H3 Large

H3 XLarge

H3 XXLarge

H4 Small

H4 Medium

H4 Default

H4 Large

H4 XLarge

H4 XXLarge

Letter case

Headings have a quick letter case toggle available. This can be changed under the typography panel. The options are: None (default), UPPERCASE, lowercase and Capitalize.

List Block

Create a bulleted or numbered list.

• This is an unordered list with three levels of nested bullets
• Second primary list item
  • Level two nested list
    • Level three nested list item

1. This is an ordered list with three levels of nested bullets
2. Second primary list item
   1. Level two nested list item
   2. Second level two nested list item
      1. Level three nested list item
      2. Second level three nested list item

Quote Block

Give quoted text more visual emphasis.

The blockquote is set up differently than a pullquote. The blockquote block has the same typography options available as the paragraph block.

This is a blockquote. You can left, right and center align the text. You can also add bold text.

Lapland Longspur

Details Block

Hide and show additional content in an accordion-style layout. This has the same functionality as our custom accordion block, but was added to the core WordPress block selection more recently.

Pullquote Block

The size options available are:

Table Block

Create structured content in rows and columns to display information.

The easiest way to paste a table into your content is by copying it from the source (ex: cells in a spreadsheet) and pasting it right into the editor. This will create a basic table. Some touching up may need to be done. When the block is already created, content can only get pasted in one cell at a time.

Use tables sparingly and only to display tabular data. Never use them to lay out contents on a page. There are three table styles available:

Default Table

Striped Table Style

Border Table Style

Footnotes Block

Add linked footnotes to the page. To create a footnote:

1. Insert the footnote block on the page (preferably at the end of the content)
2. In the paragraph text, click “more” in the block toolbar and select “Footnote” ¹. A link will be automatically created to the footnote.
3. Type the footnote text in the footnote block.
4. Footnotes automatically appear in the order that they are in the text.

1. This is the linked footnote ↩︎

Classic Editor

The Gutenberg editor also contains a Classic Editor under the text category. This one is more like a Word Document editor. We recommend only using this editor for basic text (headers, paragraphs and lists). Media will not have the same styles as they do with the block editor.

You have the option of converting content from the classic editor to blocks when you are finished.