BlockWheels vs No Gutenberg? – Choose Where to Use the Block Editor or the Classic Editor

BlockWheels provides interactive Gutenberg blocks within the WordPress block editor. Create engaging posts and pages by using a variety of features, including post grids, post blocks, and more. It serves as a flexible page builder, accommodating blocks, patterns, templates, and full-site editing. Useful Links Want to see BlockWheels in action before installing? DEMO Need any help with setup? Checkout our DOCUMENTATION For support, go to our support page SUPPORT Interested in BlockWheels Pro? Here are more details about BLOCKWHEELS PRO Terms and Conditions Privacy Policy A Quick overview of BlockWheels What makes BlockWheels special: Access free support whenever you need assistance. Customize your content effortlessly with an intuitive, user-friendly editor. Access your website seamlessly from any browser, ensuring universal compatibility. Experience flawless performance across all devices with mobile-responsive design. Personalize your site effortlessly with customizable options including placement, colors, fonts, and more. Simplify installation with no coding or developer required, making setup a breeze. Stay ahead with stable, regularly updated blocks for consistent performance. Seamlessly integrate with Gutenberg Editor for enhanced functionality. Utilize advanced Gutenberg blocks designed for developers, providing extensive customization options. Achieve real-time customization with seamless interplay among core Gutenberg blocks, ensuring a professional and performance-oriented WordPress experience. 25+ Free & Advanced Blocks and Counting Design without limits in WordPress block editor, using 25+ of the most useful BlockWheels for Gutenberg. Container – Easily add columns and any blocks either individual or groups of blocks. Customize options to tailor the container as per the requirements. Heading – Organize your content and improve website readability by humans and search engines. Paragraph – Add and edit the text within the block editor using Paragraph Block. Create easy-to-read and well-structured content using a versatile and user-friendly interface. Spacer/Divider – Use the WordPress Spacer block to create appealing space between blocks, making your content more attractive and readable. Template Library – Includes a collection of pre-designed web pages and pattern layouts that are creative and functional. Icons – Creatively showcase contains within box format, complete with icons, titles, descriptions, and any information. Video Box – Compatible with popular video platforms with extensive customization options. Impressively showcase the audio and video content of the choice. Testimonials – Create testimonials and display positive customer comments in various ways to build trust and credibility. Services – Showcase your services professionally with a new block in the Block Editor, creating a stunning service section. Grid Posts – Easily create a post grid layout for displaying posts and thumbnails using the WordPress block editor. Logo Carousel – Showcase a group of logo images in an attractive carousel using an intuitive Shortcode Generator. It’s very user-friendly and convenient to manage. Accordion – Want to display your content interestingly and more easily to browse through? Accordion will allow you to to present the information interactively through click and expand patterns. Google Map – Integrates the Google Maps features and functionalities. Enables display maps, access to location information, generate directions, and other related functionalities. Hero Slider (PRO) – Create a visually impressive EXPERIENCE with the Hero Slider, impressing your site visitors with a memorable first impression. Team Members (PRO) – Easily showcase your team with pictures, positions, bios, and social links using a simple Shortcode. Counters (PRO) – Display statistics in a fun and interesting way to highlight your achievements or company data. Portfolios (PRO) – Display your personal or company portfolio items beautifully. The portfolio plugin includes a widget and a carousel slider with customizable item display settings. Masonry Gallery (PRO) – Add an appealing masonry effect to images in posts, custom posts, and pages with ease. Lottie Animation (PRO) – Customize Lottie animations effortlessly to match your brand identity, staying sharp at any size. List Icons (PRO) – Creatively showcase contents within box format, complete with icons, titles, descriptions, and any information. Progress Bar (PRO) – Represents progress or skill levels in a linear progress bar with options to customize colors and backgrounds to suit your style. Circular Progress Bar (PRO) – Represents skill levels with a circular progress indicator, allowing you to input skill names and proficiency percentages for clearly displaying expertise. Countdown (PRO) – Lets you set and show a timer for any event or deadline, with customizable date and time options for a clear visual countdown. Price Menu (PRO) – Enables to create a well-organized display of menu items with titles, descriptions, and prices, featuring two versatile styling presets. Shape Divider (PRO) – Adds customizable and stylish shapes to the top or bottom of your sections with options for background colors to enhance your design. Connect with our team and community https://www.facebook.com/groups/wpwheelscommunity/ https://www.facebook.com/wpwheels/ https://twitter.com/wpwheels/ https://www.instagram.com/wpwheels/ https://linkedin.com/company/wpwheels/ https://www.tiktok.com/@wpwheels https://www.youtube.com/@WPWheels Copyright BlockWheels, Copyright (C) 2024, WPWheels https://wpwheels.com/ BlockWheels plugin is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. Credits CountUp Copyright, inorganik License: MIT – https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT Source: https://github.com/inorganik/countUp.js Slide Copyright (c) 2022 Naotoshi Fujita License: MIT – https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT Source: https://github.com/Splidejs/splide Swiper Copyright 2014-2022 Vladimir Kharlampidi License: MIT – https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT Source: https://github.com/nolimits4web/swiper Gutenberg Custom Template Library License: GPLv2 or later – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Source: https://github.com/stellarwp/kadence-blocks/blob/master/includes/class-kadence-blocks-prebuilt-library.php Webfonts Loader WordPress Themes Team (WPTT) License: MIT – https://github.com/WPTT/webfont-loader/blob/master/LICENSE Source: https://github.com/WPTT/webfont-loader

The most configurable way to leave the block editor behind. Activate it and everything block related is gone: the block editor, Global Styles, patterns, block widgets, the Site Editor and the block CSS and JavaScript that every page loads. From there you decide the scope: everywhere, or only for the post types, roles, templates and entries you choose. What this plugin removes: Core Gutenberg Features Gutenberg Block Editor (completely disabled) Full Site Editing (FSE) Global Styles and inline CSS Block-based Widget Editor (reverts to Classic Widgets) Block Patterns and Pattern Directory Theme.json support and processing Block Directory integration Site Editor functionality Performance Optimizations The block library CSS and JavaScript that every page loads The Global Styles inline CSS, which dequeuing the handle never reaches The block assets of any other plugin that registers blocks, on pages where no block appears The block editor assets in the admin, wherever the Classic Editor is the one opening WooCommerce Integration The block based product editor, which follows the same rules as any other post type The WooCommerce block styles and scripts, removed along with the rest of the block assets Nothing else: leave blocks on for products and the block product editor keeps working Admin Experience Removes the welcome panel that promotes the block editor Removes the Patterns submenu from the Appearance menu (WP 6.5+) Removes the Fonts submenu from the Appearance menu (WP 7.0+) Blocks access to Site Editor pages Shows activation success notice Warns you when a block theme is active Adds settings and support links to plugin actions A default that asks nothing, and a settings page for everything else – Activating the plugin disables the block editor and every block feature across the site, which is what most people install it for. The rest of this page is about wanting less than that. Full control when you need it – The settings page lives under Settings > No Gutenberg?, built around one master switch. Leave it on and the whole site keeps the complete disable. Turn it off and you decide where the block editor goes away: by post type, by user role, by page template or by individual entry. The site wide pieces (classic widgets, block patterns, frontend block assets, theme.json and the Site Editor) are then yours to keep or remove one by one. Every checkbox means the same thing, so no setting ever undoes another one. Switch editors entry by entry, where it makes sense – Editor switching is chosen per post type, right next to the rule that disables the block editor. Enable it for pages, for instance, and every page gets “Edit (Classic)” and “Edit (Blocks)” links in the list plus a switch inside both editors, while your posts stay untouched. Each entry remembers the editor chosen for it, and that choice beats the rules in both directions: one landing page can stay on the Classic Editor while the rest keep blocks, or the other way around. It tells you what it is doing – The settings screen opens with a status panel for your particular site: how many block patterns are being blocked, how much weight is off every page, whether your theme is a block theme, and how much of your published content is really built with blocks. That last number is the one that should decide whether you strip the block styles from the frontend or not, and no other plugin tells you. Built for agencies and managed sites – The whole configuration can be fixed from wp-config.php, and the settings screen locked as read only or hidden altogether, so a site you deliver keeps the setup you left behind. A whole network configured in one file – This is where the plugin stands alone. Every single setting it has, and not just which editor opens, can be written in wp-config.php, the same file every site of a multisite network reads. A network of a hundred sites is set up once, all of them with the same rules, all of them with the same block CSS gone, and none of them able to drift away from it. The plugin can also be network activated and left alone, because settings are stored per site, so a network can equally let each site decide for itself. Same mechanism as the locking above, and this is how it is written. One configuration for a whole network, or for a site you deliver Everything the settings screen does can also be written in wp-config.php, where nobody changes it by accident, and what you write there wins over whatever is stored in the database. It is the same file for every site of a multisite network, so it is also how you set up a network without repeating the configuration site by site. Add the lines you need above the comment that says “That’s all, stop editing! Happy publishing.” To disable Gutenberg everywhere and leave no settings screen for anyone to touch, which is the usual setup both for a network and for a site you hand over to a client: define( 'NO_GUTENBERG_OPTIONS', array( 'complete' => true ) ); define( 'NO_GUTENBERG_HIDE_SETTINGS', true ); Drop that second line and the settings page is still there, showing the configuration the site is really running, but read only. And if all you want is to lock the screen, leaving the configuration as each site has it stored: define( 'NO_GUTENBERG_LOCK_SETTINGS', true ); NO_GUTENBERG_OPTIONS takes any of the settings on the screen, so a selective setup is written the same way: define( 'NO_GUTENBERG_OPTIONS', array( 'complete' => false, 'disable_post_types' => array( 'post', 'page' ), 'disable_roles' => array( 'editor', 'author' ), 'frontend_css' => false, ) ); The keys are the settings on the screen. complete, widgets, patterns, frontend_css, theme_json, site_editor and fse_notices take true or false, while disable_post_types, disable_roles, disable_templates and switch_post_types take an array of slugs, and disable_ids an array of entry IDs. Any key you leave out keeps the value stored on the site. Note that defining NO_GUTENBERG_OPTIONS already turns the whole screen read only, so NO_GUTENBERG_LOCK_SETTINGS is not needed on top of it. It fits sites that: – Work better in the Classic Editor and want it back – Run classic themes and plugins that were never built around blocks – Are paying for block CSS and JavaScript on pages with no blocks in them – Need the Classic Editor for everyone except a few post types, roles or people – Are a multisite network that wants the same editing experience on every site Support Need private support or custom development? Do you need one-on-one help, priority troubleshooting, or a custom feature, integration, or tweak built specifically for your site? I offer private support and custom development. Just contact me and tell me what you need. Need help or have suggestions? Official website WordPress support forum YouTube channel Documentation and tutorials Love the plugin? Please leave us a 5-star review and help spread the word! About AyudaWP We are specialists in WordPress security, SEO, and performance optimization plugins. 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