{"id":1315,"date":"2026-04-01T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:37:12","slug":"easily-navigate-wps-block-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/2026\/easily-navigate-wps-block-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Easily Navigate WP&#8217;s Block Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve come to mostly enjoy the block editor in WordPress but it has a steep learning curve, in my opinion, for two main reasons, one of which is greatly helped by using the Wayfinder plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n<!--noteaser-->\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve come to mostly enjoy the block editor in WordPress but it has a steep learning curve, in my opinion, for two main reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>it often isn&#8217;t clear where the block options you&#8217;re looking for are, above the block or on the side of the screen, and if on the side, in which tab?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>how to select the block you want to work on, or even: am I currently editing the right block? This gets especially difficult in columns, containers, galleries, lists etc, anything that has a block inside a block<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The WordPress plugin Wayfinder really helps you with this last issue. It lets you select the right block and see which block you&#8217;re working on. I only just found it today and sadly it hasn&#8217;t been updated in a year but for now it&#8217;s still working. I&#8217;m using it on WP 6.9.4 without problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-plugin-directory wp-block-embed-plugin-directory\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"XRXg2VWwTB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wayfinder\/\">Wayfinder<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Wayfinder&#8221; &#8212; Plugin Directory\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wayfinder\/embed\/#?secret=RYfQHeDjcb#?secret=XRXg2VWwTB\" data-secret=\"XRXg2VWwTB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It has a few simple settings and I turn off the option to show block classes because that makes it a bit too cluttered for me, but then it&#8217;s absolutely perfect. I highly recommend using it for clients who want to do some simple content updates themselves and for anyone who wants to take the guesswork out of trying to select a column or a gallery and click on the right element in one go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try this plugin and if you like it, leave it a review in the WP plugin repository, so the developer will know there is still an interest for what this lovely little plugin can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"783\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/screenshot-wayfinder.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/screenshot-wayfinder.png 783w, https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/screenshot-wayfinder-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/screenshot-wayfinder-768x469.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve come to mostly enjoy the block editor in WordPress but it has a steep learning curve, in my opinion, for two main reasons, one of which is greatly helped by using the Wayfinder plugin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[217,68,231,41],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-things","tag-block-editor","tag-plugin","tag-wayfinder","tag-wordpress","infinite-scroll-item"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindemanwebsites.com\/today-i-learned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}