{"id":4770,"date":"2018-11-14T16:40:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2018\/11\/14\/content-structure-option\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T22:24:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T02:24:03","slug":"content-structure-gutenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/gutenberg\/content-structure-gutenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use the Content Structure in Gutenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great features of the new editor is the <strong>Content structure<\/strong> in <strong>Gutenberg <\/strong>that can be accessed via the top bar of the <strong>Gutenberg<\/strong> editor. It provides a great amount of information about your post and page that may prove useful to you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This information includes the number of words in your post\/page, the number of headings, paragraphs, and blocks that make up your post\/page. It also provides a very convenient and compact outline of your post or page that you can use to jump to any point of your page\/post listed within the outline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article quickly shows you how to find the Content information button and how to display it. <i>Note: This tutorial is based on WordPress version 4.9.8 and Gutenberg version 4.3.0. <\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to use the Content Structure in Gutenberg<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"article_list wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/logging-into-wordpress-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Log in to the WordPress Administrator<\/a>.<\/li><li>Next, you will need to click into a post or page that has some content already created. Otherwise, you will not see any statistics on the page\/post. <\/li><li><a rel=\"lightbox-0\" href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/gutenberg\/content-information-selected.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" align=\"right\" class=\"std_ss\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px;\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/gutenberg\/content-information-selected.png\" alt=\"Select the content structure icon\"><\/a> <div style=\"clear: both;\">\u00a0<\/div> <p>In the bar at the top, you look in the top left corner. There you will see a <strong>circled \u201ci\u201d<\/strong>. If you hover over the button you can see the title \u201c<strong>Content structure<\/strong>.\u201d Click on this icon to see the page\/post content information.<\/p> <div style=\"clear: both;\">\u00a0<\/div> <\/li><li><a rel=\"lightbox-0\" href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/gutenberg\/content-info-displayed.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" align=\"right\" class=\"std_ss\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px;\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/gutenberg\/content-info-displayed.png\" alt=\"Content info displayed\"><\/a> <div style=\"clear: both;\">\u00a0<\/div> <p>You will then see the page\/post content structure information displayed. If you click on any of the items listed within the content structure pop-up it will jump to that point in your post.<\/p><div style=\"clear: both;\"> \n\n\n\n<p>The content structure information of your page or post can prove valuable. 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