Over the last 18 months, we have used and tested quite a few plugins providing Blocks beyond the default blocks of Gutenberg or add-ons to the workings of the block editor. Then I started making a list and it became a major undertaking! I was not able to test all plugins mentioned here. So use at your own risk.
We found plugins in the following categories:
Check the Changelog for recent updates
- 30 Plugins with Block Collections
- 29 Single Purpose Blocks Plugins
- 7 eCommerce Plugins
- 6 Plugins providing Blocks linked to 3rd Party Services
- 8 Plugins with Layout & Page Designs
- 18 Plugins with Tools for Blocks
This list of Block editor plugins is not complete, but we are aiming for it. This is a very fast moving target, and I appreciate your help:
If you built or found a plugin that should be on this list, fill out the form on this page and we will add it during our next round of updates. We are exploring building a richer interface for our #280Blocks database. For now this list is it.
Here are the Quick Links to the various plugins sections of this list.
Blocks Suites | Single Blocks | eCommerce | 3rd Party Services | Layouts | Tools
All-in-one or one block at a time?
There are multiple reasons why a plugin developer would opt for a block collection rather then single purpose block plugins. Two stand-out: One is to make a companion plugin to a Theme, the other is development speed and maintainability. Once a developer starts creating blocks, doing it within the same plugin saves time creating and maintaining the underlying architecture, and she only has to upload one new update. Having it all in one block also simplifies promotion and support.
For the site-owner it’s not that clear cut, though. You might want to use four blocks from one set, and just one from the other set, and the rest will populate the block inserter view.
The block editor has this nice feature to narrow down the creators choice with the last used or often used blocks to be displayed first, and the powerful slash command that helps with the selection of blocks. Some people might get distracted by the vast amount of choices, once you installed two or more block collections. Some of the plugins provide you with a enable/disable feature so you can switch off the blocks you don’t need, and there is are also two plugins available that do this on a site wide basis rather then just for a the blocks of a particular plugin.
Single Purpose Blocks do one thing and only one thing, and do it well. My favorite is the Guidepost by Nick Hamze and the 360 Image by Kevin Bazira. Another reason is to provide a integration path for 3rd party services, like embedding Gumroad digital products, or connect with Mailchimp.
Contributors are discussing who they can make a block manager a built-in feature for WordPress Core. If you are interested you can follow along here.
The most intriguing idea for distributing Gutenberg blocks is Gutenberg Cloud, with a centralized place for blocks and the content creator can select just the blocks they need for a particular site. Gutenberg Cloud was created by Drupal Community members, and aims to o keep blocks CMS agnostic.
Blocks Suites | Single Blocks | eCommerce | 3rd Party Services | Layouts | Tools
Block Suites provide you with a set of various blocks for your posts and pages. They are all bundled into a single plugin. You can have more than one collection installed. As always, make sure you test them for plugin conflict with existing plugins. For your post you can mix and mash blocks for different plugins. It’s actually quite cool.
30 Block Suites – Collections for your WordPress Site
ACF Blocks
Advanced Gutenberg
Advanced Gutenberg Blocks
Atomic Blocks
Blocks Kit
Bokez
CoBlocks
Cosmic Blocks
Demoify Blocks
Designer Blocks
Easy Blocks
Editor Blocks for Gutenberg
Elegant Blocks
Enhanced Blocks
Getwid
GhostKit
GutenBee
HT Blocks
Mega Blocks
This plugin was closed on May 9, 2019 and is no longer available for download.
Nelio Maps
Ninja Gutenberg Blocks
OtFm Gutenberg Spoiler
Otter Blocks
Premium Blocks
Qubely Blocks
Snow Monkey
Stackable
Stag Blocks
Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg
Ultimate Blocks
Ultra Blocks
WP Munich Blocks
Blocks Suites | Single Blocks | eCommerce | 3rd Party Services | Layouts | Tools
29 Single Purpose Blocks Plugins
Single Purpose Blocks do one thing only, but that very well. Some are very specific in their focus, and some extend existing blocks with much more settings and configurations.
360 Image
360 Video
Accordion Block
Block Gallery – Photo Gallery Gutenberg Blocks
Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode
Events Calendar Shortcode & Block
FAQ Blocks
FooGallery
Gosign – Masonry Post Block
GT3 Photo & Video Gallery Block
Guten Post Layouts
Illustrations Block
Info Blocks
Logo Carousel block
“This plugin was closed on May 23, 2019 and is no longer available for download.”
Listicles
MathML Block
Meow Gallery Block
Organic Profile Block
PDF Viewer
Pop-Up Block
Post Layouts
Pricing Table Block
“This plugin was closed on April 16, 2019 and is no longer available for download.”
Recipe Card Blocks
Simple Code Block
Social Share Buttons
Secure Blocks
Timeline Blocks
WordPress Download Manager
WPSeed Container Block
Video and Image Slider
Blocks Suites | Single Blocks | eCommerce | 3rd Party Services | Layouts | Tools
📢 Now on available: Advanced Gutenberg Development 📢
7 Block Plugins for eCommerce
In this eCommerce category, we list block that provide product blocks for both, eCommerce plugins as well as 3rd Party services.
BigCommerce
Dispensary Blocks
Easy Digital Downloads
Ecwid
Gumroad
WooCommerce Blocks
Product Blocks for WooCommerce
Closed July 8th, 2019
Blocks Suites | Single Blocks | eCommerce | 3rd Party Services | Layouts | Tools
6 Blocks for 3rd Party Services
EmbedPress
Flow Platform Embed
Google Maps Gutenberg Block
Google Fonts for WordPress
Kona – Instagram Feed
Newsletter Block for Mailchimp
Blocks Suites | Single Blocks | eCommerce | 3rd Party Services | Layouts | Tools
8 Layout and Page Design Plugins
Caxton
Grid Block
Grids
Gutenberg Blocks Design Library
Guten Post Layout
Kadence Blocks
Stylist
Drop Shadow Boxes
Blocks Suites | Single Blocks | eCommerce | 3rd Party Services | Layouts | Tools
18 Tools for the Block Editor
Advanced Rich Text Tools
Animated Blocks
Archive Mapping and Post Selector Gutenberg Block
Block Background
Block Lab
Blockbuddy
BlockContext
Blocks CSS
Blocks CSS: CSS Animations for Gutenberg Blocks
Disable Gutenberg Blocks
EditorsKit (renamed from Block Options)
Fabrica Reusable Block Instances
Gutenberg Custom Fields
Gutenberg Manager
JSON Content Importer
Lazy Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks Constructor
Syntax Highligher
WPSiteSynch for Content
Blocks Suites | Single Blocks | eCommerce | 3rd Party Services | Layouts | Tools
How we selected plugins for this list?
As a member of the Global Community Team and part of the organizer Team of WordCamp US, I subscribe to the four freedoms of WordPress and only list plugins that are 100% compatible with the WordPress GPL license.
This first edition also only lists plugins available in the repository, as they are easily downloaded and added to your site. Developers also went through the effort to have their plugin reviewed by the guardians of the ecosystem, the Plugin Review Team.
Some plugins we mention in our Update posts are only available on GitHub are mostly shared with fellow developers to show use cases, explore various ways for a problem solutions, or as examples to shorted the start-up ramp for new developers. Some are so specific and geared towards one custom solution, that it won’t make sense to make them available for a larger groups of site owners, but can provide some additional models for other developers. As soon they make it into the plugins respository, we will list them here, too.
What to do when you run into trouble?
If you at anytime in exploring any plugin you run into trouble, please use the Health Check and Troubleshooting plugin to narrow down the cause and then use the Support Forums associated with the particular plugin to get support and report a bug to the developers. They will be more than happy to help you out and appreciate any feedback.
Blocks Suites | Single Blocks | eCommerce | 3rd Party Services | Layouts | Tools
Featured Image: Photo by Cobro on Unsplash
Changelog
- Sep 1: started to breaking up the last post (247 Blocks in single posts)
- June 3 Added Getwid
- May 24:
- Added WPSiteSynch, Drop Shadow Boxes, Info Boxes.Removed: Logo Carousel block, Pricing Table Block, Mega Blocks
- May 9: Added ACF Blocks
- Apr 30: added Block CSS 4 Animations, Reusable Block Instances
- Apr 11: added Grids
- Apr 7: Added Listicles, Guten Post Layout, Enhanced Blocks
- Mar 28: Added MathML Block, FlowPlayer embed, Footnotes, Dispensary Blocks, Product Blocks for Woo, Nelio Maps and Timeline
- Mar 15: Added EmbedPress, BlockContext
- Mar 10: added Block Options
- Mar 9: added Accordion Block, Pop-Up Block
- Mar 8: added Events Calendar Shortcode & Block
- Mar 7: Ultimate Blocks, Grid blocks, Container Block
- Mar 7, 2019: Initial list with 75 plugins