![]() ![]() If it’s a distraction you can switch it off. Some people can be perfectly fine without a table of contents. And you are up to date with your keyboard shortcuts, so you don’t need that either. ![]() You know there is a “Back to All Posts” in the 3-dot menu, so you do not need the arrow anymore. Once you are done setting your theme, you won’t need the Theme editor anymore. In the “Interface” section of the “Options” menu you can turn off part of the menus and icons that populate your Iceberg surface entirely. General information about the documents is displayed at the bottom of the screen: Number of words and characters and reading time. The length of the line indicates the heading level and the differences are quite subtle. Also, they are jump points to the respective section. Hovering over them, you can see the headers and sub headers. Very elegant is the “Table of Contents” represented by short lines on the left edge of the canvas at eye level. On the bottom right you find a little keyboard icon - that is your Markdown cheat sheet which shows other keyboard shortcuts for heading, Formatting and the Interface. You can also change the typography of your editor screen, using four different fonts, and controls for font size, line height, line width, and paragraph spacing. A sequence on how to modify the editor’s themes You can either adopt one of the existing themes or custom-build your editor theme by changing text, background and accent colors. Next you see a Half-Moon icon that invokes the Theme switcher. On the top left you see a back arrow that gets you back to the “All Posts” list in your WP-admin and the rest of it. The editing surface has a very clean interface with only the bare necessities and some hidden gems. From there, use the Enter key to get into the post’s body section. The cursor greets you in the “Title” section. Then you see a full-screen canvas with little else but your post or an empty post. Once installed and activated, you invoke Iceberg via the Plugins section in your block editor– the 3-dot menu in “Options” menu, seen at the top right of the block editor or via the keyboard shortcut. Getting started with distraction-free writing and Iceberg The source code is still available on GitHub. Gutenberg is still in active development and building a widely used tool on top of it, requires a great deal of time and agility to produce a quality product with staying power. Sensibly, Tabor and Carandang opted for a premium model for their plugin. And should you choose to deactivate the plugin, you won’t lose any content or formatting. Iceberg does not touch your content it just shows it to you in a different, more elegant writing interface. Iceberg gives you the best of both worlds - a writing tool focused on long text writing and publishing as well as the powerful WordPress CMS. ![]() It fills a gap many writers have felt missing with the transition to the block editor. When you are done writing and editing, you can switch to the block editor to add the final touches, apply categories, deal with Yoast SEO, add caption to your images, color settings, convert your quotes to “Quote” blocks or anything else on your publishing checklist. It hides most of the other features of the editor-related UI so you can concentrate on writing. In the background it produces native blocks for your content directly into your post. It’s a pleasure to use and it’s rocking fast. The thoughts are “hitting paper” so to speak without being interrupted by pop-up toolbars. Once the muscle memory sets in, writing can be painless. To add links just paste them to highlighted text. The slash commands “/” to add images and other media to your post are still available. As a plugin Iceberg integrates seamlessly with your WordPress site. Iceberg is different from other writing tools such as Ulysses or iA Writer. The same people who created the highly successful plugins CoBlocks and EditorsKit have done it again! Rich Tabor and Jeffery Carandang have been working on this project for the last two months. It is a powerful, elegant and distraction-free writing tool built on top of WordPress’ Block editor. ![]() The launch of Iceberg is big news for writers using WordPress. ![]()
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