Gutenberg is good, and with PublishPress Blocks, it’s great! PublishPress Blocks has everything you need to build professional websites with WordPress. The blocks include layout options, sliders, buttons, icons, image galleries, maps, tabs, testimonials, accordions, and much more.v
One of the things I love about WordPress is that the project has a clearly-stated philosophy. One of the principles is to design for 80% of users and leave plugins to fill in the more advanced features. This is happening with the Gutenberg block editor. Many developers are adding extra features on top of the…
“Block Access” is one of the most popular features in the PublishPress Blocks plugin. This feature allows you to control which blocks are available to different user roles. For example, if you want to prevent some user roles from adding “Table” blocks, you can block them from doing that with this feature. In version 2.10…
The Gutenberg editor provokes a lot of debate in the WordPress world. Some people love Gutenberg – we’re in that camp and built the PublishPress Blocks plugin. Some people really don’t like Gutenberg and prefer to stick with the editor they’ve used for years. However, most WordPress users have more mixed feelings and prefer to…
Using the PublishPress Blocks plugin, you can control how and when blocks appear on your site. The “Block Controls” feature gives you a wide range of options, including these: In version 3.1.2 of PublishPress Blocks, these controls are improved and expanded. Here’s what’s new in this release.
PublishPress Blocks 3.1 is available now and allows you to control which users can see a specific Gutenberg block. The PublishPress Blocks plugin has a new “User Role Controls feature”. This makes it possible to add the following restrictions to any Gutenberg block: Show a block to logged in users only. Show a block to…
PublishPress Blocks is one of the most popular plugins we offer, with over 30,000 active users. PublishPress Blocks has tools to help improve the Gutenberg editor. You’ll find extra blocks, options to control who can use each block, and the ability to easily add CSS to each block. We’ve just released version 3.0 of PublishPress…
The PublishPress Blocks plugin is growing in a new direction. The latest release of PublishPress Blocks (version 2.14) introduces a feature called “Block Controls”. This will give you the ability to control who sees your blocks and when they display. This first “Block Controls” setting allows you to schedule blocks to publish and unpublish. Every…
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been working on a large number of improvements to PublishPress Blocks Pro. In the latest version, you’ll see dozens of new design, layout, and alignment options, plus lots of other improvements. Almost all of the ideas for improvements have come from PublishPress users. Here’s a rundown of the new…
Both the Gutenberg Editor and Elementor are excellent ways to build a WordPress website. We recently checked the numbers and found that these are the two fastest growing options for WordPress sites. However, in most situations, you need to choose either Gutenberg or Elementor. The two systems are not very compatible with each other. So…
Nested blocks are a really useful feature in the Gutenberg editor. If you haven’t used them yet, you almost certainly will when the new “Full-Site Editing” changes arrive in WordPress 5.8. At that point, you will be able to build complete webpages in Gutenberg and I guarantee you’ll be using nested blocks. Nested blocks makes…