Asteris Blocks vs TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress

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

Tailwind CSS is a great companion to building block based sites in WordPress. Unfortunately, it’s been pretty complicated to add Tailwind CSS to WordPress since it needs to be compiled with Node.js in order to be production ready. This plugin takes care of that by adding Tailwind CSS to WordPress in one easy step (activate the plugin) and at the same time takes care of performance and caching so your site remains fast and production ready! Who It’s For This is primarily for developers and users that are familiar with Tailwind CSS and comfortable styling their site using their utility class framework. It’s also for those who have struggled to add Tailwind to their workflow without having to constantly compile their CSS every time the classes in their page content changes. How it Works Extracts classes from pages and compiles them server-side into Tailwind CSS Caches the dynamically generated CSS to avoid performance issues on the frontend of your production site. Are you affiliated with tailpress.io the theme? No, we are not! Unfortunately the same name was used for both out of coincidence, but we are not affiliated and are two different solutions. Tailpress.io is a great starting point for developing custom themes with deep integration of Tailwind. I would recommend it for any developer that wants to build a custom theme that depends heavily on Tailwind. Tailpress, this plugin, adds Tailwind support to any project as an add-on. It can be used as much or as little as you need, added to custom themes or pre-existing ones. Can this be used in production? Yes! Although the styles in the backend get generated on the fly, the CSS on the frontend gets cached for every page. Changing any classes on the page will bust the cache automatically so it’ll still stay up to date with any changes. Can this be used outside the block editor? Yes! This will work anywhere on the backend or front end of your site that uses classes to style things. Known Issues Device Preview Mode in Block Editor The non-desktop preview modes in the block editor utilize an iframe and don’t load assets properly. Therefore your Tailwind styles won’t be visible here. Page Caching If you have any page caching on your site, you’ll have to clear your cache for the best experience.