Editing Text is one of the common tasks if you own a WordPress website. You must edit the text repeatedly to update your blogs and product descriptions or adjust website copy.

There’s hardly anyone who doesn’t know how to edit text in WordPress, and this statement is true except for beginners. As a beginner, you might not know how to edit and customize your text to your requirements.

Therefore, in today’s guide, we will walk you through some easy steps to help you learn editing text in WordPress that you will never forget.

So, let’s dive into the details.

How to Edit Text in WordPress

In WordPress, you can edit the text of any posts or pages. Today, we will show you how to edit posts’ content text.

Step 1: Edit Your Post/Page

To edit your post or page, you must navigate Posts/Pages(1) > All Posts (2) and edit that post or page (3).

Step 2: Select the Text Content to Edit

Now select the text content you want to edit. To select, you can left-click your mouse on the text content, and the paragraph Block toolbar will appear on top of your content.

You will find useful functionalities in the toolbar, such as text alignment and formatting tools.

The text alignment allows you to align your text to the left, center, and right. Here’s the demo below.

The “B” helps you to Bold your text, whereas the “I” button italicizes your selected text.

Step 3: Text Customization

To customize the text, you can edit typography, font size, highlight the text, etc.

Text Color Customization

Select your text using the left-click-on text to customize or edit a particular color. Then, navigate to Settings (1) > Block (2) > Styles (3).

Select the text option and select any color from the color picker.

Here is the edited text color.

Text Background Customization

In the same way, you can change the background color. Navigate to Settings (1) > Block (2) > Styles (3) > Background (4) and finally select your background color (5).

Here is the demo for you below.

You can also highlight your text very easily. Highlighting is important to grab the visitor’s attention.

Font Size Customization

To change the font size, follow the example below.

There is even an option for text Strikethrough. You can learn how to strikethrough text from here.

You should follow these easy steps to edit any text in WordPress.

Final Thoughts!

Mastering text editing in WordPress allows you to maintain full control over your website’s content.

However, if you are making minor tweaks or overhauling entire sections, the ability to adjust text easily ensures your site stays dynamic and relevant.

So that’s all for today’s guideline. I hope you’ve understood how easily you can edit text in the WordPress Gutenberg editor.

Let me know your thoughts in the comment section below. Also, you can help ask anything related to this tutorial. I would be happy to help.

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