Gutenberg Block Editor Toolkit – EditorsKit vs Starter Templates

Website Templates, Page Templates and Block Patterns for WordPress Starter Templates is a growing library of 300+ ready-to-use website templates for WordPress. Import a complete website design, a single page template, or an individual section, in one click. Every template works with any WordPress theme, and with the page builder you already use: Elementor, Beaver Builder, Spectra, or the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg). Starter Templates demo Highlights 300+ website templates and ready-made site designs Free Elementor templates and Gutenberg templates 200+ page sections, block patterns and layouts Pre-built sections designed for specific use-cases Full site templates, page templates and section templates AI website builder with built-in AI assistant Adaptive design library with royalty-free images Works with any WordPress theme Supported page builders: Elementor, Spectra, Beaver Builder, and WordPress Block Editor One-Click Website Templates and Template Kits Building a website design from a blank page takes weeks. With Starter Templates you pick a template, import it, and edit the content. Every design is a complete template kit, not just a demo page, but the pages, layouts and settings that make a finished website. You can import at three levels: Full website templates: Every page, menu, and setting for a complete site Page templates: A single page design dropped into your existing site Sections and block patterns: Individual layouts added to any page Preview any template as a live demo before you import it, so you always know what you are getting. Realistic Templates for Every Business Starter Templates goes beyond stunning design. It delivers readymade website templates specifically crafted with your business in mind. Launching an eCommerce store? We have a diverse selection of store templates to get you selling in no time. Creating a business website? We have dozens of professional-quality designs ready for you to make your mark. No matter your industry or niche, we have a template that perfectly aligns with your vision. Free Elementor Templates A fan of Elementor? Look no further. Starter Templates offers a vast collection of professionally designed Elementor templates, with more than 300 Elementor templates available. Import entire websites built with Elementor, individual page templates, or specific blocks to enhance your site’s layout and design. Then just drag, drop, customize, and launch your website. WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) Templates The WordPress block editor is changing the game for website creation, and building from scratch is still slow. Starter Templates offers a large library of readymade Gutenberg templates, block patterns and page layouts, all editable natively in the block editor. Hundreds of Sections and Block Patterns Every section is built for a specific use-case. A hero to open a landing page, a pricing table for a service business, a testimonial layout for social proof, a team grid for an about page. Drop one into any page and the layout, spacing and styling are already handled. Swap the text and images, and the section is done. Want to customize your website design to make it truly unique? Use sections, block patterns and layouts to add your personal style. Available sections include: Hero, Page Header, About, Services, Features, Contact, Why Choose Us, Call To Action, Portfolio, Gallery, Testimonials, Pricing, FAQ, Team, Statistics. Templates That Install the Plugins They Need Depending on the type of template you import, Starter Templates also installs the plugins that template needs to work. Import a booking template and the plugins that provide booking are set up for you. Import an online store template and the eCommerce plugins come with it. You do not need to go hunting for another plugin after importing a template, because the design arrives ready to run. AI-Integrated Adaptive Design Library Personalize blocks and patterns to match your website style with the power of AI. The design library within the Starter Templates plugin is integrated with AI and royalty-free image repositories. All elements come pre-populated with relevant text and images that you can easily customize to match your brand. Lightning Fast Websites Starter Templates prioritizes speed and efficiency without compromising quality. Pages created with Starter Templates have efficient, clean code and are free from unnecessary elements. This means faster load times and a smoother experience for visitors on any browser or device. AI Website Builder Alongside the template library, Starter Templates includes an AI website builder. Describe your business and the AI selects a design, generates professional copy, and curates visuals to match your brand, producing a complete website in under two minutes, which you then edit like any other template. Follow the steps below: Enter the name of your website and select the type of website you’re creating (portfolio, business site, landing page, or something else). Describe your business. Use AI to refine your description prompt if you need to. Add your contact details and social media handles so people can interact. The AI will suggest images based on your input. Select the images you want to use. Choose the website structure from the options. Select any site features you need. The AI will generate a website in under 2 minutes. Customize your site as you see fit! AI Assistant for WordPress Our AI Assistant works in a similar way to ChatGPT but is specifically tailored for WordPress. With just a click of a button, you can use AI to help write copy for landing pages, proofread blog posts, translate content into different languages, generate custom HTML and CSS codes, and much more. Royalty-Free Images The Starter Templates plugin offers seamless integration with leading royalty-free image repositories such as Pexels and Unsplash. You have access to millions of top-tier images within your WordPress dashboard. Simply search for the image you need and select it. Training Videos We offer a range of comprehensive training videos designed to complement our templates. They provide the knowledge and skills necessary to build, launch, and maintain your website. Types of Websites You Can Create Starter Templates is perfect for building websites for: personal branding, restaurants, service providers, nonprofits and charities, events, startups, local businesses, wellness businesses, landing pages, lead generation websites, eCommerce stores, blogs, manufacturing businesses, and any other type of WordPress website. There’s no limit to what you can create. Please note: To access AI-generated templates and websites, you’ll need a ZipWP account. Signing up is quick, easy, and 100% free. Fun Facts About Starter Templates ✓ Over 5,000 websites are built with Starter Templates every day. ✓ The plugin has been installed on more than 2 million websites. ✓ Starter Templates has more than 4,500 five-star reviews. ✓ Our team of dedicated full-time WordPress experts help and support hundreds of users daily. ✓ A devoted team of full-time designers keeps the design library up to date. ✓ Our plugin offers more than 150 free Elementor templates. ✓ You can import a complete website, individual page, or section of a page in seconds.

EditorsKit provides set of page building block options and toolkit for the new WordPress Gutenberg editor. You can now have better control, text formats, styling and workflow by simply utilizing the tools provided by EditorsKit plugin. See for yourself New: Block Styles Manager You can now easily create and manage all of your block styles with the new styles manager. Rich Text Formats EditorsKit also adds the missing text formats for better content creation. The following rich text format are available upon plugin activation: Links with “rel” nofollow and sponsored attribute option Highlighted Text or Heading Colors Highlighted Text Background Color Clear Formatting Options Paragraph Justify Alignment Underline Text Format Superscript Subscript Indent Paragraph, Heading or List Block Uppercase Text Transform Images and Embeds Caption Alignment Nonbreaking Space Abbreviation for acronyms Insert Special Characters Glyphs and Special Characters Insert special characters and symbols on Gutenberg editor at ease. Special characters are categorized and you can use the search field to find specific symbol. Markdown Support Starting EditorsKit 1.6 , you can now use markdowns on Gutenberg editor while typing. Markdowns for *bold*, _italic_ and ~strikethrough~ are available upon plugin activation. Lists of available markdowns are also accessible on the settings menu. Watch it in action Block Visibility Using EditorsKit you will have the following visibility control in order to manage and display better contents. Show or hide Gutenberg blocks on desktop, tablet and mobile devices User logged-in or logged-out state block visibility Custom PHP conditional display logic Show or hide Gutenberg blocks based on Advanced Custom Fields Plugin(ACF) Value Estimated Reading Time Word count is already available on Gutenberg editor. EditorsKit then extend this word count and display estimated count as well. Using roughly 275 word per minute plus additional calculations based on image blocks, you can display better estimated reading time on your posts and pages. Powered by shortcode you can display the Estimated Reading Time on your content by using the code below. [editorskit display="wordcount" before="Reading Time: " after=" min"] before : Text or element you want to display before reading time. after : Text or element you want to display after reading time. tag : default div : Html tag container fallback : set value to ‘true’ to display PHP based wordcount on old posts that are not edited or created through Gutenberg Block Guide Lines EditorsKit features other tool aside from visibility management. With the new Block Guide Lines, you can easily toggle visible guide lines on title and each editor blocks in order to check the element boundaries. This feature will also help your workflow on handling nested blocks. Copy and Paste Selected Blocks Note: This feature is no longer available in the latest versions of EditorsKit because this has been added to Gutenberg. Editorskit Typography Note: This feature is deprecated and no longer available in the latest version. If you want to continue using Editorskit typography, You can download and install the editorskit deprecated typography addon manually from github. Image and Cover Block Styles Comes with selection of styles on Cover and Image Block for custom shapes and layouts such as diagonal, circular and rounder corners; and even add drop shadows. List Block Additional Styles Provides the following additional styling for list block: Checked List Arrow Crossed Connected Starred Dashed None Responsive Text Alignment Easily change text alignment per devices. This will help you provide different alignment view on mobile and tablet devices aside from the existing option for desktop. Full Height Screen Option Easily display selected blocks as full screen layout by toggling “Full Screen Height” option under the advanced panel. You’ll instantly have beautiful hero section by just using core blocks. Toggle Title Visibility Easily hide post, page or any post type’s title on your website in just a click. This will enable you to create full Gutenberg editor’s driven posts and pages without getting “(No Title)” on your admin dashboard. Block Import and Export Export each block or selected blocks and reusable blocks directly on the editor, no need to navigate to separate admin dashboard. Then drag and drop exported JSON file on the editor and it will automatically be transformed into Gutenberg blocks, same goes with reusable blocks. Better Custom CSS Class(es) Huge improvement on Additional CSS Class(es) option! EditorsKit provides better UI with classes suggestions while typing. Powered with custom PHP filter, theme developers can include custom Utility Classes for more customization options. Set Image Block as Featured Image Enable selected image block to be set as featured image easily using the block settings dropdown. Drag and Drop Featured Image Upload Easily upload or change featured image on Gutenberg editor by dragging and dropping image on Featured Image sidebar panel. Code Editor Mode Syntax Highlighter Improve display when on “Code Editor Mode”. Powered by WordPress default CodeMirror library, Code Editor will be displayed with code syntax highlights and you will easily check each elements and if there are any errors on your HTML codes. Media and Text Block Link and Card Layout Option Assign custom link to Image on Media and Text Block. Add custom, media or attachment link easily. You can also set open to new tab, add no follow and/or set link to the whole block. Additionally, you can set Media and Text Block to display as card layout with option to set image on top or bottom. Integrated perfectly with the toolbar layour selection. Add Link to Cover, Group and Column Blocks Assign link to cover, group and column blocks at ease with option to enable link attributes like open to new tab, apply nofollow and/or sponsored rel value. Additionally, you can enable the extra option to apply hover animation. Keyboard Shortcuts EditorsKit adds the missing keyboard shortcuts from Classic Editor. When activated you can use the following shortcuts to easily save time and improve writing workflow. CTRL + ALT + 1 : Heading 1 CTRL + ALT + 2 : Heading 2 CTRL + ALT + 3 : Heading 3 CTRL + ALT + 4 : Heading 4 CTRL + ALT + 5 : Heading 5 CTRL + ALT + 6 : Heading 6 CTRL + ALT + c : Align center CTRL + ALT + r : Align right CTRL + ALT + l : Align left CTRL + ALT + j : Justify CMD + SHIFT + . : Select Parent Block Block Navigator Display “Block Navigator” on block that can contain multiple child blocks. Available on Columns Block and Group Block. UI and User Experience Improvements Improve interface and provide better writing experience. Copy and Paste Custom Gradients Easily copy custom gradient colors to your clipboard and paste them anywhere. You can also select CopyGradients available combinations and easily paste the colors to Cover and Button blocks. Features Manager Enable or disable EditorsKit features using “EditorsKit Settings” menu. This will give you full control over the plugin features and let you disable the features that you don’t need on your website. Theme Supports for Developers EditorsKit is moving towards being developer friendly as well. Starting version 1.5, custom theme_supports were added to provide theme developers option to make Gutenberg block editing experience for their users match the frontend display. Learn more here. Accessible Help, Tips and Tricks Add help, tips and tricks button on the bottom right side of the editor to help users discover several helpful power tips and shortcuts. These tips will definitely improve your workflow and save time navigating the new block editor. ShareABlock block Insert your downloads from shareablock.com easily using this block. Browse through your block patterns and templates then add them to your content in just a click. Helping you with the new Gutenberg Editor EditorsKit is created to help you navigate through the new editor. Each new features will make your page building more convenient and easier. You can help achieving this goal through the community: Join Facebook Community Follow Us on Twitter Contribute on Github Contact and Credits EditorsKit is maintained and developed by Munir Kamal.