We have increased the storage (disk space) quotas on each of our Cloud Sites hosting plans by 1 GB. This will allow your website to use more disk space before you need to upgrade.
Here’s the breakdown by hosting plan:
Simple Squid
was 1 GB of storage, now increasing to 2 GB of storage
Micro Squid
was 2 GB of storage, now increasing to 3 GB of storage
Mega Squid
was 3 GB of storage, now increasing to 4 GB of storage
On June 1st, 2019, the price of Cloud Sites hosting will be changing to the following:
Simple Squid – $5/month
Micro Squid – $7/month
Mega Squid – $9/month
This pricing adjustment is being implemented due to increased business costs, along with ongoing improvements to Laughing Squid Hosting services and support. Some recent Cloud Sites improvements include increased storage and bandwidth quotas, as well as the removal of compute cycles.
We really appreciate your business. If you have any questions about your hosting plan, please contact support.
Please Note: This adjustment is for Cloud Sites only. Managed WordPress pricing and quotas will remain the same.
When you are creating content in WordPress 5.0 and beyond, you will notice a new editing experience. The traditional text box is missing. There is a lot more whitespace. Less clutter and buttons than before. Let’s take a closer look at what is going on with the new Blocks editor.
Users will finally be able to build the sites they see in their imaginations.
Matt Mullenweg, Chief BBQ Taste Tester of Automattic
Built under the project name Gutenberg to replace the previous TinyMCE editor, this new block editor is now the default content editor in WordPress. The goal of Gutenberg and block editing was to simplify the WordPress experience and give users a better visual representation of what content will look like before they publish.
Blocks are containers for organizing the information on your webpage. For example, when you create a new blog post, the post creation screen first displays a rectangular ‘Add title’ box. Whatever you type in here will be the blog post title.
You can add additional content blocks by clicking the plus sign (+) inline, or in the header, as shown below:
Blocks can be any sort of content: headers or paragraphs, lists or quotations, images or video. Just click the plus sign and the various block options become available for selection:
For whatever content block type you have chosen, there are also additional settings available for adjustment in the right-hand column to further tweak a particular block.
If you are really feeling your inner writing mojo, you can open up the screen whitespace even further with some settings in the upper right-hand corner:
Blocks can be moved up/down easily via a directional arrow, edited, or altogether removed. On the whole, the experience is quite nice for composing blog posts easily and for editing. Block editing affords a reasonable feeling of page control over the old editor.
The new editor will NOT upgrade old posts to blocks automatically. Only newly-created posts are blocks by default. If you go back in time and edit any older content not created with the Gutenberg editor, you will have the option of converting the post content to blocks. It is probably a good idea to first backup your WordPress before any tinkering with archived content to avoid any unforeseen problems.
For WordPress versions 5.0 and beyond, you can install the Classic Editor plugin to continue blogging with the old editor. It will be supported by WordPress until 2022.
There are a lot of video and blog tutorials available for learning the new WordPress editor. But the best bet might be to launch a new post and just play around with the blocks and see how simple the blogging future will be in WordPress.
