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

Elfsight provides you with a wide range of blocks right for your WordPress website. Whatever your business sphere is – ecommerce, blogging, or other, Elfsight tools are there to assist you with increasing conversion rate, improving the user experience, reducing the bounce rate, getting more visitors and followers, collecting information and supporting users of your website. You don’t need coding skills to embed our plugins into your web page. Simply start creating your custom plugin and make the most of your website in just a few clicks! What makes Elfsight blocks special: Free support available any time you need. User-friendly editor and intuitive customization. Compatible with any browser. Works great on any device – mobile responsive. Easy to personalize – choose the placement, color, size, fonts and many more. No need to look for a developer or learn coding – the installation is a breeze. Cloud solutions provide instant problem fixes and high loading speed. Always stable version of the blocks thanks to regular updates. Suitable for any WordPress theme. Can be added to any page of WordPress site. Text in any language is supported. Get access to all blocks with one subscription. Possibility to integrate with Gutenberg Editor. Introduce these blocks into your website without effort: Social Feed – Add Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Pinterest Feed to your WordPress website. Keep your audience connected with your social media and get new followers easily with automatic updates and fresh content every day. Reviews – Showcase testimonials from Google, Airbnb, Tripadvisor, Amazon and other resources on your WordPress page and prove to your audience you’re a reliable partner. Draw new purchases and uplevel social trust. Chats – Provide your audience with a fast way to connect to you through Whatsapp, Facebook, Telegram and other popular messengers. Use diverse display positions, select categories of visitors who can see the chat, add your company logo and caption text, show an inviting welcome message and more. Ecommerce – Boost sales by means of our Countdown Timer, Pricing Table, Popup and Click to Call button. Create feeling of scarcity, remind your users of upcoming sales period and represent your payment plans easily. Make the best of your sales strategy! Form Builder – Create various filling forms for your WordPress homepage and collect insights from your current and potential customers. Design feedback forms, rating requests and other formats. Make data collection a breeze! File Embed – Insert files of all popular formats into the pages of your WordPress website. Attach the following types: PDF, Docx, Xlsx, Jpeg, and other formats. Embed your certificates, technical documentation, instructions, and more in a few seconds! Galleries and Sliders – Capture users’ attention with attractive galleries and sliders on your WordPress website! Use our Slider, Photo Gallery or Portfolio to showcase visual content the most representative way. Add visual effects and scale the image / video size the way you need swiftly. Social icons and Share buttons – Expand the reach of your content, making use of our social blocks. Provide your audience with a new way to stay in touch with you and get new loyal followers in a few clicks! Audio – Playback audio tracks, books, podcasts and radio shows on the pages of your WordPress website. Entertain and educate your audience with our extremely customizable tools and diversify the content types on your web page easily. Others – Choose the block for almost any use case: FAQ, Event Calendar, Weather and many more. Check the whole list of our WordPress blocks and find the ones that suit you best! Free customer support available any time you need In case you face any difficulties with the installation process or come across any other questions, please contact our customer support team to get useful tips and answers to the frequently asked questions.

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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