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# Editor Overview | Website Manual

**Editor Overview**

The block editor is where you write and change pages and posts in WordPress.

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### Good to know

The block editor is where you write and change pages and posts in WordPress. Each paragraph, heading, image or button is a separate block that you can move, edit or remove on its own.

The bar along the top holds the buttons for adding blocks, undoing changes, previewing and saving. The sidebar on the right shows settings for the whole page or for the block you have selected, and you can close it when you want more room to write.

### Up next

- [Editor OverviewPlaying](/wordpress/editor-overview/)
- [Adding BlocksComing soon](/wordpress/adding-blocks/)
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