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Containers Single Blocks

Gosign – Logo Slider Block

This is very a lightweight and straightforward plugin to display an image carousel, typically used for client logos. I have other block reviews specifically for Post Sliders (post loops), and for large single image containers (“Hero” sliders).

I can think of quite a few other applications, such as adding links to single posts/products, since it allows for custom links.

Custom links on images: They are always nice to have, and also always hard to build an elegant interface for.

The plugins includes basic settings to control the layout of the block (number of items per slide) as well as it’s appearance (dots, arrows) and autplay/delay and if it should loop back to the beginning (“infinite”).

The block can be seen in action here:

One thing I do miss on this block is the possibility of setting to “wide” and “full width” modes.

I reallly like Gosign’s simple approach to block building and the fact that they create individual blocks that can be used as standalone plugins. This helps keeping the Block inserter clean and the JavaScript at minimum. Here are some of their blocks I plan to review next:

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Extensions

Wholesome Publishing: per block visibility and comments

Here is a great example of Gutenberg’s granular control over the content. Wholesome Publishing expands on Gutenberg’s core functionality, similarly to what Editor’s Kit does, by providing visibility control over each individual block by letting us set individual blocks as drafts, and introducing block based comment threads.

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Post Loops Reviews

Gutenberg Post Blocks

One of the holy grails of blocks, as far as I am concern, is post loops. To me, this is the essence of dynamic blocks and over time I have used several tags to keep track of the blocks I review that include this feature in some capacity, most notably:

Out of the three above I believe that it is paramount that any new “post loop” blocks include support for all registered CPTs and Custom Taxonomies on a given WordPress site.

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Collections Reviews

WooCommerce Blocks 2.5.4

I did a review of this plugin early in the year but I have decided to write a separate post for this new update of the plugin, as it nows adds more than twice the number of blocks, including product review blocks and, price/attribute filters.

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Meta-Review

Gutenberg error: “o is not a function”.

A little meta-update, while I am here:

After updating gu10.blog to WP 5.3 I spotted an error `o is not a function` when trying to update my content.

I also noticed that this error was hiding my categories and tags from the sidebar.

I noticed the error has already been reported here ,for now I will have to disable the plugin and continue with the core 6.7 version of Gutenberg.

UPDATE: It looks like the issue resurfaced and is again being discussed here:

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/17444#issuecomment-555444287

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Containers Single Blocks

GutenSlider

This is an interesting and more advanced alternative to the Carousel Slider Block I already reviewed here. If you want a simpler and more generic Carousel container I would go with the plugin I mentioned before. For more image-oriented carousels this block offers some interesting new features.

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Extensions Reviews

Editors Kit

This plugin extends and tweaks Gutenberg’s functionalities, bringing it to a new level while staying true to its original spirit.

I came across this plugins while writing my Inline Text Editing Comparison post and it instantly became one of my favorite plugins.

Below is the full list of features provided by the plugin’s author. More on their website, here: https://editorskit.com/

  • Links with “rel” nofollow and sponsored attribute option
  • Highlighted Text or Heading Colors
  • Highlighted Text Background Color
  • Clear Formatting Options
  • Paragraph Justify Alignment
  • Underline Text Format
  • Superscript
  • Subscript
  • Uppercase Text Transform
  • Images and Embeds Caption Alignment
  • Nonbreaking Space
  • Support for Markdown
  • Text alignment for captions (images & embeds)
  • Adding “no-rel” to links
  • Mobile based and user log-in based block visibility
  • ACF integration.
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Comparisons Extensions

Comparison: 9 plugins to add inline styles to text blocks

We know that adding inline styles are one of the most demanded features, but we also know it can be a double-edged sword and a gateway to all kinds of inline horrors.

I am going to review plugins which add inline styles to paragraph blocks, mostly color, backgrounds and general typography settings.

Most of these plugins are in fact Block collections which offer this added functionality as an extra, while three of them (Mighty Blocks, Advanced Rich Text Tools and Editors Kit) are standalone plugins, and do not include any blocks.

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Collections Extensions Templates

Ghost Kit part 2: Extending Gutenberg

I made a review of Ghost Kit a while back but since then this plugin has added several new features, some of which offer extra settings and extend the functionalities of the block editor.

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Extensions

Mighty Blocks

This plugin does NOT add any extra blocks, but extends the functionality & control of existing blocks :

  • Typography (fonts, colors, backgrounds, letter spacing, line heights)
  • Margins
  • Backgrounds & Gradients for all blocks
  • Round Corners
  • Drop shadow
  • Borders
  • Mobile specific settings of all of the above