Cover Block

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To give your post or page a sleek, professional look, you can add a Cover Block. Get started by clicking the inserter icon.

You can also quickly add one by typing “/cover” in a new paragraph block, then press enter.

Detailed instructions on adding blocks

Once you add the Cover Block, you have a few options which are

• You can add an image or video from your device
• Choose Select Media to choose from an existing image or video on your site, 
• You can now select the Use featured image option to set the cover as the featured image of your page or post.
• You can click on the colored circles to use the respective background color for your cover. You can later change it to any other color in the block settings.

Using the Featured Image on the Cover Block

Resize option for the Cover block

The Cover Block comes with a resize tooltip which appears below the cover block when dragging. You can resize the block by moving the tooltip up and down.

Block Toolbar

Every block comes with unique toolbar icons and block specific user controls that allow you to manipulate the block right in the editor.

The Cover Block shows standard seven buttons:

• Transform to
• Moving handles
• Change alignment
• Change content position
• Toggle full height
• Replace
• More options

Transform to

You can transform the cover to Columns Block, Image Block, Media & Text Block or into a Group Block.

Moving handles

The up and down arrow icons can be used to shift a block up and down in your document.

Detailed instructions on moving a block within the editor can be found here.

Change alignment

• None – Leaves the block the current size.
• Wide width – Increase the width of the post beyond the content size.
• Full width – Extend the block to cover the full width of the screen.
• Align left – Make the block left-aligned.
• Align center – Make the block alignment centered.
• Align right – Make the block right aligned.

Change content position

Change content position option allows you to change the position of content within your cover.

Toggle full height

This option allows the Cover Block to take up the height of the reader’s screen to create an immersive experience.

Replace

This is another option in the Cover Block’s toolbar. Choosing this will allow you to select a new image file for your block. Use this if you need to replace the image file in your Cover Block.

More options

These controls give you the option to copy, duplicate, and edit your block as HTML.

Read about these and other settings.

Block Settings

Every block has specific options in the editor sidebar in addition to the options found in the block toolbar. If you do not see the sidebar, simply click the ‘cog’ icon next to the Publish button.

Media settings

Fixed Background

In the block settings on the sidebar, you have some other options, the first of which is a toggle for a fixed background. A fixed background means the cover image scrolls along with your page. Turning this option off embeds the image in place, so the image doesn’t scroll.

Repeated background

The Repeated background option lets you repeat the same image to form a pattern in the cover block. For example, if you have a small image and you want it to repeat multiple times in the cover block, you can enable this option.

You can use the Repeated background toggle in combination with Fixed background, but Fixed background does not necessarily have to be turned on. Feel free to play around with these options to find what suits your needs.

Focal Point Picker

If the fixed background option is turned off, you will see the focal point picker. This tool lets you identify the main point of interest in the photo and highlight. Click on the picker to drag it to the spot you want, or use the left and top position percentages below to set it manually.

The clear media button removes the media and any changes you have to it.

Filter options

You can create a filter effect on images without actually changing the original image.

The filter option allows you to add this filter color to your block content from the block toolbar.

Read more about the filter options.

Dimensions

The Cover block provides dimension settings options to add padding and margin.

For details refer to this support article: Dimension settings overview

Color

The Cover block provides color settings options to change the text, background, and link colors for the block

For details refer to this support article: Color settings overview

Overlay Opacity

Using the Opacity slider, you can set the opacity of the cover image’s overlay. Moving the slider right toward 100 makes the overlay darker and more opaque, and moving it left toward 0 makes the overlay lighter and more transparent. At 100, the overlay is completely opaque and the cover image is no longer visible. At 0, the overlay disappears completely, leaving only your image.

If you’re adding a title to your cover image, we recommend making the overlay at least somewhat opaque to make the title easier to read.

Typography

The Cover block provides typography settings to change the font family, appearance, line height, letter spacing, decoration, letter case, and font size.

For details refer to this support article: Typography settings overview

Advanced

The Advanced tab lets you add HTML anchor and CSS class(es) to your block.

HTML element lets you choose between these HTML elements: Div, header, footer, main, section, article, and aside. It will default to div if another option isn’t selected. While more advanced, this option allows you to add semantic elements that can be used to define different parts of a web page. For example, if you’re using the Cover block as part of your Header, it would make sense to define it as such.

HTML anchor allows you to make a unique web address for a particular Cover Block. Then, you’ll be able to link directly to a Cover Block of your page.

The Additional CSS class(es) lets you add CSS class(es) to your block, allowing you to write custom CSS and style the block as you see fit.