 So we've seen quite a number of blocks initially and this time around I'm going to talk about the blocks that are located in the widgets section. Now these are blocks that we've been used to seeing on the front end of the WordPress like for example latest comments, latest posts, latest calendar, archives, RSS feeds, tag clouds and we usually find these under appearance and then we go to widgets and that's how we usually find them. But since our WordPress is going for front end editing or making sure that you can have any content that you want in any page of your website that you do have, these have been turned into blocks and any other widgets that are still remaining are also being converted into widget blocks. So for example if I wanted to find out the latest posts I can just hit that block and you'll see that we have the Hello World article showing up in our latest posts block right here. Now we're able to throw this and make it full width if we need to we can change this and make it into a grid view. For example if it had an image we can add all that content and see it here or we can just leave it under list view. Now of course when we click it's linkable to the new page that we do have here but I just want to see the other options that we do have. So for example we can choose to show the post date of that particular post. We can choose to show also the content and we know Lorem Sam is good and that's the content and we can even choose to say maybe we want to show 100 words of this particular post and maybe if the excerpt was a lot longer than this we could be able to determine how many characters we want to show. We could show the full post for example now we're showing the full post but we'll go for the excerpt and just leave it as so. We can sort from the oldest to the newest right now we have only one article there we can choose to say we only want that content that is in a particular category and we can choose and say maybe we want let's say five items of our latest posts. So these are the options that are available for us and we can add also the CSS class. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to update this, go to our posts and add just a new dummy post here. So we're going to call this a dummy post for widgets block. So we're going to add another Lorem Sam piece here and just make this have let's say two blocks of paragraphs in there and what I'm going to do is I'm going to publish and push it available and then I'll just add to this block itself I'm going to add a new category to this post I'm going to add a new category the category that I'll call widgets so that we can see some differences. I'll hit enter and on hitting enter update. So when we come back to our post here where we added the latest posts block you're going to see that this block actually needs to update itself. So right now we're showing this we want to see five items if I save this you'll see that because I chose demo content as the category we only have one item here but if I choose to say let's bring all the categories you'll see both articles showing up we can show from the newest to the oldest so it automatically sorts itself we can toggle on and off the dates when these were written we can choose to say we don't want the post content so we just have the title and the date and then we can save this. So all widget areas in our WordPress will now have the ability of having these widget blocks showing up in those areas. So if I reload our page here you'll actually see that all our posts are coming up and they're being shown. So this is something that you could use in your articles just to showcase and allow your users to follow up on any other content that you've made but probably wasn't available or you want them to switch from one category to another. The other block that I would like us to look at is actually in the widgets section is the categories block. So equally this works like the posts block, the latest post block except that this one just shows only the categories that we do have. So we can choose to show them as drop downs, we can show hierarchy, we can show the post counts that are available in them. So if we save this and then go back and reload our page you'll see that we have a drop down here and if we choose and say we want the demo content when we click on it you'll see it's going to bring in a URL, it's taking us to the category of demo content and that's how it simply works. So depending on what you want to use here it allows us to express and show our content on the front end in different ways so if I reload how this looks like you'll see that we have our categories and it's showing the number of posts that are available in each of those categories. So we'll take away the hierarchy and if we take away the post count then it looks as it should be. So we can show the latest comments, we can show our calendar, we can add a search bar, for example we can add a search bar in there, we can also add an archives category so this is showing the December categories that we've created and we can also show tag clouds and the calendar itself. So we're able to add this and we will see that on this different dates of course we had different posts. So that's how the whole widget section, what used to be widgets is being turned into blocks so we are able to apply a number of settings to this but most of them you realize it's only adding CSS changing whether they will be full width, left aligned, center aligned and that is what's available so try it and see what it does for you in your blog so you can see how you handle your content and express it on your front end. So one of the blocks that has really been stable throughout this whole process is what we call the short code widget. Now with the short code usually there are plugins that are developed to do particular things and once we run the short code it's able to do calculations and give us on the front end what we are looking for. Others are just contact forms, for example if you use contact form 7 you will see that you're able to put your short code here and it will be, you'll get a form on the front end that is sending back information. So currently I'm using Wukamas and Wukamas has a number of short codes it uses for example the Wukamas checkout short code and this allows for Wukamas to checkout on this particular page that you do have here. So I'm going to use the Wukamas underscore card short code here that will allow Wukamas exhibit my card on this particular page so if I update this and then come and reload this page you'll actually see that it's saying my card is empty so I have to go back to the shop and now that I don't have any products it makes it funny but ideally I would shop and then I would be able to see the information on my page so that's how the short code widget works so it doesn't have any extra settings you just place in your short code and it will run your short code functions and calculations or whatever it is you just place them on your front end and that's how the short code widget works