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# Classic Block | Website Manual

**Classic Block**

The Classic block holds content in the older WordPress editor format, with one toolbar like a word processor.

Coming soon

We are recording a new video for this one.

## Before you finish

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If your site has a caching plugin, clear its cache too. There is usually a button for it in the bar along the top of the dashboard. Still the old version after a few minutes? Ask whoever looks after your site to clear the server cache.

### Good to know

The Classic block holds content in the older WordPress editor format, with one toolbar like a word processor. You will usually find it on pages written before the block editor arrived, or where text was pasted in from an old site.

It still works. You can also convert it to blocks from its toolbar, which makes the content easier to edit later.

### Up next

- [Code BlockComing soon](/block-editor/code-block/)
- [Custom HTML BlockComing soon](/block-editor/custom-html-block/)
- [Preformatted BlockComing soon](/block-editor/preformatted-block/)
- [Pullquote BlockComing soon](/block-editor/pullquote-block/)
- [Table BlockComing soon](/block-editor/table-block/)
- [Classic BlockPlaying](/block-editor/classic-block/)
- [Verse BlockComing soon](/block-editor/verse-block/)

MerlinFX client? [Ask for this task recorded on your own site](https://www.websitemanual.com.au/request-a-recording/?video=classic-block#request).

### The interface changed again. Your actual job has not.

Your website should be handled. Not handed back to you.

[Read: What actually keeps a site working](https://merlinfx-website.pages.dev/website-design/wordpress-care-plans/)

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