Gutenberg Blocks WordPress Tutorials and Documentation

PublishPress Makes it Easy to Find Reusable Blocks

Written by Steve Burge on January 23, 2023.

The latest version of PublishPress Blocks now has a submenu for “Reusable Blocks” that is enabled by default. This submenu allows you to reach the “Reusable blocks” page screen that is normally difficult to find in WordPress.

Reusable blocks are an incredibly useful feature in the Gutenberg block editor. They allow you to create content once and use it multiple times inside different posts and pages. In future updates for PublishPress Blocks, we're going to add more features to help you manage reusable blocks.

PublishPress Blocks Has Day, Time, Page Controls for Gutenberg

Written by Steve Burge on January 10, 2023.

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:

Schedule control: schedule when to start showing and/or stop showing a block.
User roles control: choose which users can see your blocks.
Term archives control: choose on which taxonomies and terms archive pages your blocks can be displayed.
Pages control: choose in which pages this block can be displayed.

In version 3.1.2 of PublishPress Blocks, these controls are improved and expanded. Here's what's new in this release.

PublishPress Blocks Has User Role Controls for Gutenberg

Written by Steve Burge on October 27, 2022.

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 logged out users only.
Show a block to selected user roles.
Hide a block from selected user roles.

You can add these controls to almost any block, including blocks from the WordPress core and third party plugins.

PublishPress Blocks Version 3.0 is Here

Written by Steve Burge on October 10, 2022.

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 Blocks. This update has a new interface that closely matches the other PublishPress plugins. This update also introduces the foundations of more key improvements in future releases, particularly around the “Block Controls” features.

I'll give you a quick guide to the changes you see when you install the new version of PublishPress Blocks.

How to Disable the Gutenberg Block Editor

Written by Steve Burge on August 4, 2022.

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 switch back-and-forth depending on the project. We've had several questions from PublishPress customers who want to know how to disable Gutenberg in some situations, or for some users.

In this guide, we share several different ways you can disable Gutenberg. Each option has its own methods for switching between Gutenberg and the older, classic editor.

Block Controls Are Now Available in PublishPress Blocks

Written by Steve Burge on July 26, 2022.

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 block can have a “Start showing” and “Stop showing” option.

How to Stop WordPress Users from Adding New Gutenberg Blocks

Written by Steve Burge on June 22, 2022.

The Gutenberg block editor makes it easy to add and edit content in WordPress.

However, sometimes you want to do just the opposite! Sometimes your content should not be updated.

It is now possible to lock blocks so that they can not be edited. This feature was introduced in WordPress 6.0.

PublishPress Blocks Pro Supports Google Fonts in Gutenberg

Written by Steve Burge on May 2, 2022.

PublishPress Blocks is one of the most popular plugins for Gutenberg blocks with over 30,000 users.

In the latest release of PublishPress Blocks Pro, you'll find some really cool new design options, including these:

Google Fonts: You can choose from over 1,000 fonts to use in your blocks.
Content Display block: This block is the best way to showcase your content in WordPress, and there's now a ton of new customization options.

In this guide, I'll give you an introduction to all these major new features in PublishPress Blocks.

How to Show Gutenberg Blocks in Elementor

Written by Steve Burge on October 12, 2021.

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 we considered it a challenge this week when a PublishPress customer asked us if they could use the PublishPress Blocks plugin inside pages built with Elementor. After some research, we found that this is possible. I'm going to show you how to insert any Gutenberg block into Elementor layouts.

How to Use Nested Blocks in the Gutenberg Editor

Written by Steve Burge on September 28, 2021.

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 it easy to create advanced layouts. This is because nested blocks are blocks inside other blocks. A simple example is a Column block with a text block inside. Another example is a pricing block with a “Buy Now” button block inside.

Some common uses of nested blocks are the default Columns, Cover, or Group blocks.

Tag: Gutenberg Blocks