Asteris Blocks vs Schema & Structured Data

50 free Gutenberg blocks. Full-featured, and free forever. Asteris Blocks gives you a polished, alphabetised block library covering everything you need to build landing pages, blog posts, and product pages. Every block is complete — nothing is locked behind a paywall, and the plugin never nags you to upgrade. What you get 50 blocks — Hero, Pricing Table, FAQ Accordion (with schema), Recipe Card (with rich results), Comparison Table, Countdown, Cookie Notice, Code Block with syntax highlighter, Image Hotspots, Map (OpenStreetMap), QR Code, Before/After Slider, Table of Contents, and 37 more. 12 pre-built patterns — Hero + Stats, Pricing 3-tier, Full landing page, and more — one-click insert. 60 block style variations — Hero (minimal / split / gradient), Feature Grid (cards / icons-only / bordered / numbered), Pricing (classic / minimal / bordered / highlighted), and dozens more. Newsletter integrations — Mailchimp, MailerLite, ConvertKit, Brevo. API keys encrypted at rest (AES-256-CBC). See “External services” below. Schema.org markup — FAQ + Recipe + AggregateRating JSON-LD validates on Google Rich Results Test. HTML anchor IDs on every block — link anywhere, jump anywhere. Native typography + colour controls on every text-bearing block. 100/100 Lighthouse accessibility on Kadence, GeneratePress, Twenty Twenty-Five. What you do NOT get No email-gated features — every one of the 50 blocks is fully functional, free. No nag screens, no pop-ups, no “your trial expires” timers in your editor. No tracking. No cookies. No analytics. The only outbound connections are the optional third-party services listed under “External services” below, and they run only when you add the relevant block to a page or configure a newsletter provider. Asteris Blocks is full-featured and free forever — funded by our other products, not by upselling you. If you ever want premium section patterns and pro-level design controls, there’s an optional Asteris Blocks Pro — but the free plugin is complete on its own and never pushes you toward it. Why Asteris Blocks? Built lean on purpose. Here’s what you actually get: Tiny footprint — about 215 KB zipped, and it loads zero front-end CSS or JavaScript on pages that don’t use an Asteris block. Only loads where it’s used — the shared stylesheet and script enqueue only on pages where one of your Asteris blocks actually renders. No site-wide weight. No JavaScript framework — blocks render in PHP with tiny vanilla-JS view scripts; no React or jQuery dependency dragged onto your front end. 50 blocks, 12 patterns, 60 style variations — all free — nothing gated, no “premium” lock icons cluttering the inserter. Schema built in — FAQ, Recipe and AggregateRating JSON-LD that validates on Google’s Rich Results Test, no separate SEO plugin required. No phone-home — no tracking, no cookies, no analytics on you. The only outbound calls are blocks you choose to add (Map, Video, embeds) — each documented below. Accessibility-minded — 100/100 Lighthouse accessibility on Kadence, GeneratePress and Twenty Twenty-Five. GPL-2.0 — audit it, fork it, keep it forever. No nag screens — Pro is mentioned once, never a pop-up or a disabled button. Asteris Blocks Pro Asteris Blocks is full-featured and free forever. If you want to go further, the optional Asteris Blocks Pro adds: 73 premium section patterns — niche page templates (photographer, music artist, conference, salon, fitness), video + audio sections, premium e-commerce layouts. The control layer — fine-tune any block’s spacing, responsive visibility, hover states, animations and custom CSS, no code required. AI Section Generator — describe a section and get a ready-to-edit block layout. Cloud pattern library — one-click insert from a growing hosted collection. Same lightweight, no-bloat build. See everything included at asterisblocks.com/blocks-pro. External services This plugin can connect to the following third-party services. None of them are contacted unless you add the block that uses them to a page, or configure a newsletter provider. No data is sent to us. Newsletter providers (optional). When you configure a provider and a visitor submits the Newsletter block, the visitor’s email address (and name, if entered) is sent from your server to that provider’s API to create or subscribe the contact. You choose the provider and supply the API key. Mailchimp — terms: https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/ — privacy: https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/ MailerLite — terms: https://www.mailerlite.com/terms-of-service — privacy: https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy ConvertKit (Kit) — terms: https://kit.com/terms — privacy: https://kit.com/privacy Brevo — terms: https://www.brevo.com/legal/termsofuse/ — privacy: https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/ OpenStreetMap (Map block). Adding the Map block embeds a map from openstreetmap.org. When a visitor loads the page, their browser requests map tiles from OpenStreetMap. Terms: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use — privacy: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy YouTube / Vimeo (Video block). Adding a video embeds a player from youtube-nocookie.com or player.vimeo.com when a visitor plays it. YouTube terms: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms — Google privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy — Vimeo terms: https://vimeo.com/terms — Vimeo privacy: https://vimeo.com/privacy Spotify / SoundCloud (Embed block). Adding the Embed block with a Spotify or SoundCloud URL embeds that provider’s player. When a visitor loads the page, their browser requests the player and the track/episode you embedded from open.spotify.com or w.soundcloud.com. Only the public URL you paste into the block is sent. Spotify terms: https://www.spotify.com/legal/end-user-agreement/ — Spotify privacy: https://www.spotify.com/legal/privacy-policy/ — SoundCloud terms: https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use — SoundCloud privacy: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy

Transform your Google search presence with automatic Schema.org markup! Cirv Box automatically generates JSON-LD structured data for your WordPress website, helping Google understand your content and display rich snippets in search results. 🚀 Why Schema Markup Matters Higher Click-Through Rates – Rich snippets stand out in search results (2-4x CTR increase) Better Rankings – Google rewards sites with proper structured data Rich Results – Show ratings, prices, FAQs directly in Google search Zero Technical Knowledge – Works automatically, no coding required WooCommerce Ready – Product schema for e-commerce sites ✨ Free Features 📝 Article Schema (Blog Posts) Automatically adds Article schema to all blog posts with: * Headline, author, publish date * Featured image * Article excerpt * Publisher information 🛒 Product Schema (WooCommerce) Perfect for online stores! Includes: * Product name, price, SKU * Stock availability * Customer ratings and reviews * Brand information * Shows in Google Shopping results! 🏢 Organization Schema (Homepage) Establishes your brand identity with Google: * Company/brand name * Logo and description * Contact information * Powers Google Knowledge Panel ❓ FAQ Schema (FAQ Pages) Intelligent FAQ detection that: * Automatically finds FAQ content * Parses questions and answers * Displays FAQs expanded in Google search * 2-4x higher click-through rates! 🎯 How It Works Install & Activate – One-click activation Configure Settings – Choose which schema types to enable That’s It! – Schema markup is added automatically Verify – Test at validator.schema.org No coding, no complex setup, no monthly fees for basic features! 💎 Pro Features (Coming Soon) Local Business Schema – For brick-and-mortar stores Review/Rating Schema – Standalone review pages Video Schema – For video content creators Event Schema – Promote events in search Recipe Schema – Perfect for food blogs Course Schema – Online course markup Priority Support – Get help within 24 hours 🎓 Perfect For Bloggers – Improve article visibility in search WooCommerce Stores – Show products in Google Shopping Local Businesses – Appear in local search results Content Creators – FAQ pages that dominate search Agencies – Professional SEO tool for clients 🔧 Technical Highlights Clean, lightweight code (no bloat!) Uses WordPress best practices Transient caching for performance Multisite compatible GDPR compliant Regular updates and support Translation ready 📊 Trusted By E-commerce stores needing Product schema Bloggers wanting better search visibility Businesses building brand authority Agencies managing client SEO What’s new in the Cirv ecosystem We are building the next plugin in the Cirv suite — Cirv Sight. Yoast tells you you’re invisible to Google. Cirv Sight tells you you’re invisible to ChatGPT — and lets you charge AI bots to crawl you. Cirv Sight ships an llms.txt for your WordPress site, then watches what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews actually do with it. Four numbers per page: citations, AI-bot crawls, share of voice, and a Cloudflare 402 pay-per-crawl estimate. If you already use Cirv Box for Google rich results, Cirv Sight is the same idea pointed at AI search. Free on WordPress.org when it ships, Pro for publishers and agencies. Join the waitlist at https://cirvgreen.com/sight Additional Info Privacy & GDPR Compliance: Cirv Box does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data. All schema markup is generated from your existing WordPress content (posts, products, pages). No external API calls. No tracking. No cookies. Support & Documentation: * Built-in help in plugin settings * Online documentation: https://cirvgreen.com/products/cirv-box * Support forum: WordPress.org support forum * Email support: [email protected] Developer Friendly: Cirv Box is built with developers in mind: * Clean, well-documented code * WordPress coding standards * Hooks and filters for customization * Open for contributions on GitHub Roadmap: * Local Business Schema (Q1 2026) * Review/Rating Schema (Q1 2026) * Video Schema (Q2 2026) * Event Schema (Q2 2026) * Recipe Schema (Q2 2026) * Advanced customization UI (Q3 2026) Third-Party Service Usage This plugin does not use any third-party services. All functionality is self-contained within WordPress. For schema validation, users may optionally visit https://validator.schema.org (Google’s public tool) to verify their markup, but this is not required for the plugin to function.