If like me, you’re using the Gutenberg editor, you’ll have lots of blog posts in your archives that were written with the Classic editor.

However, fear not! Those blog posts can be converted, so they look like they were written with the Gutenberg editor; thus you’ll be able to use the many benefits Gutenberg brings to the art of blogging to those posts.

I’m still in the process of converting many of my most popular posts to Gutenberg, so I thought I’d share with you the quickest and easiest method to convert those posts.

Let’s get started

First of all, ensure your blog is in Gutenberg mode. To do this, from the draft page of a post, click on the ‘Learn More’ box on the righthand side of your screen.

• Next, click on ‘Try the block editor‘ box.

• Your blog will now have been switched to the Gutenberg editor.

Now you’re in the Gutenberg editor, what next?

• Find a blog post you want to convert to Gutenberg and place it in edit mode. I’m using one of my favourite posts entitled ‘What To Do When One Of Your Blog Posts Is Reblogged.’

• In the screenshot below, you’ll see that Gutenberg has placed the whole post into a ‘Classic‘ block.

Let the magic begin

• Click anywhere in the classic bar to open the Classic menu.

• Next, click on the three vertical dots at the end of the bar.

• Click on ‘Convert to Blocks‘ in the new menu that opens just under the three vertical dots.

Has the magic happened?

It may not seem very obvious, but the post has now been converted into Gutenberg blocks. Instead of the whole post being in one block, in the screenshot below, it’s been turned into six blocks.

Anything else?

Yes. Before pressing the update button to confirm you want to make the changes, I’d recommend you preview the post first to make sure you’re happy with its layout.

Something I always do is to ensure that all images in the post are aligned to the centre. I think the layout of them looks better that way.

But that’s not all you can do, is it?

No. You can also resize images to make them fit into the post better, as well as change the order of the blocks, or delete any blocks that are no longer needed. In my case, I removed an out-of-date block at the end of the post that mentioned a competition I was running at the time I published the post.

Don’t forget that you can also update the tags and categories for the post. It’s worth doing this if you’ve discovered more popular tags and categories since the post was first published.

We’re almost done

Once you’re happy with the final layout and do not need to make any further edits or changes, click on the update button.

Hey-presto! Your post is now live in the Gutenberg editor.

Any questions?

Leave them in the comments section. I’ll get back to you with answers as quickly as possible.

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