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    Content Editing

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    Adding Content to Your Site

    WordPress provides an easy-to-use block editor to manage the content on your pages and posts without having to know how to code. Here, you'll find a couple of resources to learn the difference between pages and posts and how to use the block editor.

    Content Editing

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    Basic Tutorials

    Creating Accessible Content

    Learn how to make sure your pages and content are accessible for all users.

    Accessibility

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    Advanced Tutorials

    Using Animation

    Animating content on your site can engage visitors, communicate meaning and context, and enhance the user experience. Using animation appropriately has many benefits, but when misused, animation can actually have harmful effects. It's important that you consider all of these tips before adding animation to your pages.

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    Blocks

    Carousel

    The carousel block allows you to show a slideshow of content on your page or post. You can include images, text, and more in your carousel.

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    Content Editing

    Blocks

    Accordion

    The accordion block allows you to group content under a heading and hide the content until the user clicks on the heading to expand it.

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    Content Editing

    Blocks

    Tabs

    The tabs block allows you to group content under a heading and hide only the content until the user clicks on the heading to display it. Only one content section can be displayed at a time.

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    Content Editing

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    Blocks

    Card

    The card block is an organized way to display an image and content (usually a header and small paragraph). It can optionally be used to link to pages as well.

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    Content Editing

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    Blocks

    Posts

    The posts block displays the latest posts from your blog or another WordPress blog.

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    Content Editing

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    Blocks

    UW Today Events

    The UW Today Events block allows you to embed events from today.wisc.edu on your page. You can filter by feed, tag, or specific event id, and easily control which fields are displayed.

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    Content Editing

    Events

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