How Will Full Site Editor Affect My WordPress Site?

Ever since the emergence of blocks and the Gutenberg Editor, there’s been a new way to use WordPress. And recently, the announcement of Full Site Editor opens up how we use WordPress blocks.

This new feature allows blocks to be used not just in pages and posts but in all areas of a WordPress site. This means you can create and edit your entire website, including the design and layout, in the block editor. You can now add blocks to headers and footers to customize the site title, logo, navigation, post author, post title, featured image, and date.

With Full Site Editor, you can customize your pages to your liking and then use it as a template for every page and post. In templates, you can edit colors and individual designs, which lived before in the WordPress Customizer. There will be a new template section where you can select your template, edit existing templates, or create new ones.

The idea is that by making everything a block, it’s easier to edit and customize your WordPress site without having to know too much about coding. 

Changing how you interact and customize your site can be a whole new process. To simplify, here’s an update on what we know about the Full Site Editor and how it affects your WordPress and events website. 

The progress

In order to use the Full Site Editor, your site needs to use a theme that supports it, such as Blockbase or TT1 Blocks, though many themes have been quickly releasing Full Site Editor support. New features and themes are constantly being rolled out in subsequent releases, so keep an eye out for when your favorite theme introduces Full Site Editor if you don’t want to change your theme just yet. 

Right now, the latest release is WordPress 6.1. Here’s an update of what that entails for Full Site Editor: 

• More consistent block options. Blocks have been updated to support colors, spacing, and typography.
• More options in the Styles sidebar for Full Site Editor.
• Gallery, quote, and list blocks can now use inner blocks.
• You can find additional templates in the Full Site Editor: Category, tag, taxonomy, date, and custom
• Block locking and content locking included. 
• You can use a featured image in the cover block.
• Appearance tools and template parts can be enabled in classic themes with theme support.

There are still improvements to be made and new features to add that were not completed in time for the WordPress 6.0 launch. You can expect to see some of these requested features in future releases: 

• Responsive controls
• Feature parity: Scheduling changes, additional CSS field
• A sidebar for managing the navigation block content
• Remote font providers for the web fonts API

You can follow along here for updates on the Full Site Editor as they are announced.

Using Full Site Editor with The Events Calendar

We are constantly testing out our plugins with the Full Site Editor. You can use The Events Calendar with an FSE-compatible theme, though there are some limitations:

• The main events archive cannot be edited through the Full Site Editor.
• Events widgets are not available through the FSE widget admin. Read our knowledgebase article for a workaround using widget shortcodes.

The Full Site Editor is a very new and different tool for customizing your site, and integrating our plugins with it fully is a large-scale project that we’ll be working on in phases.

We’re continuing to update our compatibility with Full Site Editor here in our Knowledgebase. Also keep an eye on our Release Notes for future updates to Full Site Editor compatibility.

Testing it out

We strongly recommend that you test thoroughly on a local or staging site before using The Events Calendar with Full Site Editor on a live site. Testing will prevent you from accidentally breaking your live site with any changes caused by Full Site Editor. 

Full Site Editor is now part of WordPress Core, so it’s easy to test it out once you spin up a WordPress site. Learn more about how to test FSE here.

Try Full Site Editor with The Events Calendar 

Full Site Editor can provide a more intuitive and flexible way of creating and editing content on your WordPress site, as well as allowing you to customize the look and feel of your site more easily. It’s worth a test run to see if this provides a more manageable way to customize and showcase events on your site. 

Ready to see how it works? Request a demo site. You can import the Full Site Editor theme there and test it out with your plugins.