Blockera Site Builder – Responsive Blocks, Block States, and everything Gutenberg is missing vs UpdraftPlus

Checkout a quick overview of Blockera Quick Links 🔗 Blockera Site Builder Try Live Demo Feature Requests Roadmap Blockera Community Introduction Video Tired of Gutenberg’s limitations? 🧐 Imagine this: All the familiarity of Gutenberg, same core blocks but supercharged with advanced options and responsive controls. That’s Blockera, It’s the Block Era 😎. Blockera transforms block editor (Gutenberg) into a powerful page builder, by enhancing all core blocks. It’s the ADVANCED MODE for Gutenberg. This unique approach ensures a seamless transition and empowers you to create stunning, responsive websites with advanced design capabilities and animations. Who Is Blockera For? 🎯 Blockera is for anyone that tired of Gutenberg’s limitations and weak performance of other page builders. Install Blockera today and unlock the true potential of Gutenberg for creating professional and blazing fast websites! 7️⃣ Key Missing Features of Gutenberg that Blockera Adds 🏆 1️⃣ Responsive Blocks and Controls: Allows you to customize all style settings for all screen sizes easily, ensuring your site looks perfect on all devices. This feature is not just advanced but also unique to Blockera. 2️⃣ Advanced Style Customization Options: Blockera offers all CSS style customization options for all blocks, making it easy to achieve any design you can imagine. With an intuitive UX, even complex CSS adjustments are a breeze. 3️⃣ Supporting All Core Blocks1: Blockera doesn’t overwhelm you with new blocks. Instead, it supercharges all existing core blocks, adding the advanced features you need to take your website to the next level. Works with all block themes, classic themes and Gutenberg-enabled websites. 4️⃣ Block States: Design hover effects and other state-specific styles to create a more engaging user experience in all blocks. Blockera supports all HTML states for unparalleled flexibility in all core blocks2. 5️⃣ Custom CSS For Blocks3: For those who want to push the boundaries even further, Blockera allows you to add custom CSS codes per block. This feature provides expert developers with the freedom to implement highly specific customizations. 6️⃣ Inner Blocks Customization: This unique feature lets you customize the design of all nested and child blocks from the parent block without having to change them one by one. In upcoming updates, you will be able to attach these customizations to block style variations. 7️⃣ Supporting All WooCommerce Blocks4: Blockera supports WooCommerce blocks as same as core blocks with advanced options, such as block states, custom CSS, and more. All of these features are available in Blockera already. So what’s the future of Blockera? Upcoming Features of Blockera 🔥🔥🔥 Currently we are working on the following features to add in Blockera: Blocks Style Variation Manager: We are working on blocks style variation manager that lets you to create new style variation for blocks or update current styles form block editor. Variable Support for All Features: Currently, Blockera supports variable support for colors, font size and spacing but we are working on to support variable support for all other features like box shadow, border, transforms, transitions and all other features beside that we will add an option to create custom variables. Pattern Library: We will add a new pattern library for Blockera that includes many pre-made patterns and also you can create your own. Icon Support for Blocks and Icon Library: We will add an option to add icons for button, menu and many other blocks and an icon library to select icons from or upload your own icons. Animation Support for Blocks: We will add options to add animation for all blocks with features to create advanced and fast animations easily. Block Conditions: We will add option to add visibility conditions for all blocks with features to create advanced conditions to show or hide blocks. AI Integration: We will add AI integration to block editor for creating content or designing websites. We are working on it. Responsive Design Controls Blockera’s allow you to customize all style settings for all responsive breakpoints easily, ensuring your site looks perfect on all devices. Also, Blockera offers unique customization graph for each option that helps you to find customizations for each option in responsive breakpoints easily. The desktop, tablet, and mobile breakpoints are available in free version and in the Pro version large screen breakpoints beside options to customize all responsive breakpoints settings and adding custom breakpoints are available. Page Builder Design Options for All Gutenberg Core Blocks 🔥 Blockera transforms Gutenberg into a powerful page builder by enhancing all core blocks and adding following design options. Block States & Responsive: You are able to customize all HTML states for all blocks including hover, focus, and more with all following advanced options together to create a more engaging user experience also you can customize all style settings for all responsive breakpoints. Advanced Typography Options: You are able to customize typography options for all blocks from simple customization to advanced options like text shadows, multi-column, strokes, indents, and more. Spacing Options: You are able to customize spacing options for all blocks including negative values, variables values or advanced option to use CSS calc functions. Advanced Layout Options: Including option for adding Flex and Grid layout and detailed options for customizing them. Also option to customize flex and grid child. Advanced Background Options: Including option to add multiple background images and gradients. Option to set background size and repeat type and background clipping and more… Size Options: Options to set width and height or more advanced options like min-width, max-width… or aspect ratio or media fit. Border and Box Shadow: Options to custom and box shadow beside customizing border and border radius or even outline. 2D and 3D Transform: Options to add 2D and 3D transform for for all blocks including multiple transforms or creating perspective for blocks. Advanced Effects: Options to advanced effect settings for blocks like opacity, transitions, filters and backdrop filter or blending and more. Advanced Block Position Options: Options to add advanced position options like absolute or sticky position for blocks like top, right, bottom, left, z-index and more. Mouse Interaction Options: Options to customize mouse interaction for blocks like changing cursor or disabling all mouse interactions for blocks. Integrations & Compatibility 🔥 Blockera is compatible with all core block editor blocks1 and all WordPress themes, including site editor and non-site editor themes. Also we are adding support of all WooCommerce blocks4 continuously. Fast Page Loading Speed 🏎 Blockera does not add any CSS or JS files until it’s needed. By doing this approach we can speed up the page loading time significantly and your website will load faster. Also, we optimize core blocks to render and load faster. Blockera is compatible with Optimization Plugins and use optimization techniques such as combining CSS and JS files and minification. Also, there is no jQuery dependency. Notes: 1- Currently 92 of 93 core blocks are supported. We are working rapidly on the rest to add support soon. 2- All block states are supported in Pro version and in the free version Normal and Hover is available for all blocks. 3- Custom CSS per block is supported in Pro version. 4- Currently 103 of 131 WooCommerce blocks are supported. We are working rapidly on the rest to add support soon. Support 🤝 We’re here to help. Feel free to open a new thread on the Support Forum. Become a Contributor 💁‍♂️ Blockera page builder is an open-source project, and we welcome contributors to be part of our vibrant community! Help us improve the plugin and make it even better – GitHub Link

The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world. Backup with UpdraftPlus UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks. Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email. The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus. Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly or fortnightly. Restore with UpdraftPlus Your WordPress website is vulnerable. Your site may get hacked. Something could go wrong with an update or your server could crash. You might need to reverse a change made or a mistake caused by human error. Whatever the reason, you can restore your WordPress website in just a few clicks with UpdraftPlus. Choose which components to restore (e.g. plugins, themes, database etc.), click again to restore, then click again to return to the main screen. Migrate with UpdraftPlus It’s easy to migrate your WordPress website to another web host, server or domain with this free version of UpdraftPlus. To migrate, simply download your database, plugins, themes etc. from the source site, then upload them into your destination site. When migrating, a built-in search-and-replace engine identifies old strings and replaces these to reflect the new location. UpdraftPlus saves you time and reduces the risk of broken links or missing files associated with manual migrations. Why UpdraftPlus? Writing a reliable backup and migration plugin that ‘just works’ consistently across millions of different WordPress deployments is hard. UpdraftPlus is relied upon to do exactly that. We’re trusted and actively deployed on more websites around the world than any other WordPress backup and migration plugin. UpdraftPlus: Backs up, migrates and restores Offers a huge number of remote storage locations Allows you to schedule backups, so you can ‘set and forget’ Is comprehensive and easy to use Is proven to work on over 3 million sites. UpdraftPlus Premium The free version of UpdraftPlus will back up and migrate your website perfectly well. However if you need more features and options you can purchase our Premium version. Backup and Migrate with UpdraftPlus Premium, and: Get automatic backups before updates. Restore the very latest version if a WordPress or plugin update breaks your site. Backup Incrementally. Changes are added to the master, saving server resources vs repeatedly backing up in full. Get more remote storage options including Microsoft OneDrive, SFTP, Microsoft Azure, WebDAV, Google Cloud, SCP, Backblaze and pCloud. Get 1GB of integrated storage with UpdraftVault for 99.999% reliability, redundancy and scalability. Get more control over how many backups are stored in a specified interval. Restore from other backup plugins including BackWPup, BackupWordPress, Simple Backups and more. Run backups at set times e.g. during periods of low traffic. Backup to more than one location for added protection. Get detailed reports. Includes cryptographic checksums so you can verify the integrity of the backup files and more. Get Premium migration. Migrating to the destination site is more direct and can be done from the source site. Get Multisite / multi-network compatibility. Backup non-WP files and databases e.g. tables belonging to your e-commerce store or customisations to WordPress core. Get database encryption. Manage your backups and migrations from the WP-CLI. Get Premium Support. Find out more on our comparison page. UpdraftPlus Premium is available for purchase here. Managing multiple websites? UpdraftCentral is a powerful remote control dashboard for WordPress that allows you to manage your backups, as well as updates, users, pages, posts, plugins and themes from one central location. Choose between: UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Premium (paid-for, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Cloud (paid-for, fully-hosted) Optimize your sites centrally by combining the power of WP-Optimize and UpdraftCentral or manage your backups centrally by combining the power of UpdraftPlus with UpdraftCentral. Need to create a temporary clone of your site? UpdraftClone makes it quick and easy to create a temporary sandbox for changes you want to try out. Simply select the versions of WordPress and PHP that you want, and we’ll do the rest. More about UpdraftClone The full suite of plugins from Team Updraft and friends UpdraftPlus. Backup, migrate and restore. Rated 5* on the plugin directory and trusted by more than 3 million WordPress website owner WP-Optimize. Clean the database, compress images and caching. Optimize your WordPress website. 5* user rating. 1 million + active installs. All-In-One Security (AIOS). Secure your WordPress website. Comprehensive, feature rich and easy to use. 5* user rating and 1 million + active installs. WP Overnight. Quality Extensions for your WooCommerce store. 5* rated invoicing, order and product management, customer management solutions and more. Easy Updates Manager. Take control of updates. Lots of features for free, and a Premium version with even more – over 300,000 users. Internal Link Juicer.Boost your SEO. Automate internal links within your WordPress website. Save time and rank higher in the search engines. For other useful, free plugins see our lead developer’s profile, here. Are you multilingual? Can you translate? Do you want to help people that speak your language to backup, migrate and restore their WordPress websites? The UpdraftPlus backup, migration and restoration plugin is ready and waiting. The translation process is easy, and web-based – please go here for instructions: https://updraftplus.com/translate/. Or, if you’re already an expert WordPress translator, just pick out the .pot file from the wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/languages/ directory – if you scan for translatable strings manually, then you need to get these functions: _x(), __(), _e(), _ex(), log_e(). Many thanks to our existing translators. License Copyright 2011-24 David Anderson This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Non-English translators are provided by volunteers, and wordpress.org does not give plugin developers control over their translations; thus relying on them is at your own risk; UpdraftPlus cannot guarantee that translations from the original English are accurate. We recognise and thank those mentioned at https://updraftplus.com/acknowledgements/ for code and/or libraries used and/or modified under the terms of their open source licences.