Where is the 5.8 full site editing feature?

[ben.turner]

@andy85

I have triple checked usual suspects (Wordpress 5.8.1 alpha, beta tester plugin, 2021 theme, latest Gutenberg).

I was tripped up with something similar initially. First thing I would do is review the " Step 1: Setup your site" section of the FSE Editing handbook:

• https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/full-site-editing-outreach-experiment/how-to-test-fse/

For me it was the realization that you have have a theme that supports it. The default twentytwentyone theme doesn’t have that support, and instead you need to install the tt1-blocks theme.

I was able to get things up and running like so:

1. Create new site in Local

2. Right-click on the site and select “Open Site Shell”

3. Use WPCLI to install Gutenberg and tt1-blocks

   wp theme install tt1-blocks --activate
   wp plugin install gutenberg --activate
   

4. Log into the site and see the new “Site Editor (Beta)” item in the menu

   

Good luck and have fun!