Gutenberg is packed full of useful features to allow you more control over your editing experience. To access some of them, you need to find the “More” options area at the top right of your editor.
1. Access “More” Options
Clicking the 3 dots in the upper right of your gutenberg edit pagej opens the “more” options tab:
2. Unified Toolbar
The first option you see in the “more” toolbar is to enable the “unified toolbar.” Enabling the unified toolbar will move the options for your current block to always appear at the top of the editor window:
Default Toolbar
Unified Toolbar
3. Fullscreen Mode
Enable Fullscreen Mode if you wish to hide the sidebar and admin topbar:
4. Spotlight Mode
When spotlight mode is enabled, any block that isn’t currently being edited will appear with a bit of opacity. This is supposed to exhibit some of the functionality of “distraction free mode” from the original WordPress editor:
5. Code and Visual Editors
If you wish to edit code directly, you can switch from the visual editor to the code editor:
Gutenberg Visual Editor
Gutenberg Code Editor
6. Plugin Options
If you’re using plugins that add extra Gutenberg functionality, then you can find their settings below the code editor:
7. Keyboard Shortcuts
You can also view all keyboard shortcuts available in Gutenberg:
For a full list of the keyboard shortcuts available, open shit modal:
8. Copy All Content
Finally, you can use the “copy all content” tool to copy all of your pages text content. This function does not copy anything but text from your post or page:
