Scientific and Interactive Blocks – inseri core vs Spectra Legacy – Gutenberg Blocks

⚠️ This project is unmaintained. ⚠️ The vision of inseri is to enable scholars to design and publish interactive and executable online content without requiring web development skills. So that they can publish with ease the research findings in an open, citable and interactive way for effortless reuse by any researcher or the general public. Through interactivity, everyone is encouraged to edit the parameters, use own data, or reuse publicly published data to explore the research findings. As a result, inseri core introduces scientific and interactive Gutenberg blocks to facilitate open access and open science communication. The inseri core blocks are not isolated elements but they can receive input from and give output to other blocks. A typical example would start with a Text Editor block containing the configuration for a Dropdown block. By selecting one option in the Dropdown block would provide a Web API block with the parameters to retrieve data from an external source. Using a Python Code block, the web API response could then be transformed into a suitable data format for a Plotly Chart block. Blocks: Cytoscape Block: It displays network diagram using the data of another block with Cytoscape. Data Table Block: It displays tabular data of another block and gives guests the option to explore it. Download Block: It gives guests the possibility to download data from another block. Dropdown Block: It provides guests options to choose from and the selected option can be reused in other blocks. Export Block: It makes the post or page content open access by allowing the visitors to download the corresponding blueprint.json and WXR file. HTML Code Block: It renders HTML code using the other block’s data. IIIF Viewer Block: It showcases images with pan/zoom functionality, along with videos and audios consumed by an IIIF API. Image Box Block: It displays an image utilizing the data of another block. JavaScript Code Block: Guests can run JavaScript code with data from other blocks and the result of the execution is made available to other blocks. Local File Import Block: It allows guests to provide their own data for blocks. Media Collection Block: A collection of media files is made available as data for other blocks. Plotly Chart Block: It visualizes the data of another block using Plotly. Python Code Block: Guests can run Python code with data from other blocks with the use of Pyodide and the result of the execution is made available to other blocks. R Code Block: Guests can run R code with data from other blocks with the use of WebR and the result of the execution is made available to other blocks. Share Block: Guests can share the state of a page with other visitors, allowing them to reproduce it. Slider Block: It gives guests the possibility to choose a value or a range within a specified boundaries. Text Editor Block: It allows to share text content like JSON or XML with other blocks. Text Viewer Block: It displays text content like JSON or XML from other block. Web API Block: It enables to call a web API and to share this data with other blocks. Zenodo Repository Block: Using a DOI, a dataset can be loaded from Zenodo.org and shared with other blocks. inseri name comes from the Latin insero which means to sow, to plant but also to insert. More information about the project can be found at here. For examples and showcases see here. Detailed documentation is available at inseri-swiss.github.io/inseri-core-wp. Try out our Playground. For Ideas and Questions please use GitHub Discussions. Bug and Issue reports are welcome on GitHub Issues. The development takes place on GitHub. Do you want to get regular notifications? Watch the GitHub repository! Do you want to show your interest? Star the GitHub repository and Follow inseri.swiss organization!

This plugin was previously called Spectra. It’s now Spectra Legacy. Nothing on your website has changed. Your blocks, pages, settings, and content all continue to work exactly as they did before. There’s nothing to migrate and nothing to configure. Spectra Legacy vs. Spectra Blocks We’ve split Spectra into two products. Spectra Legacy is this plugin — built for existing Spectra users. It receives security and compatibility updates and full support, but no new features. Spectra Blocks is a new, separate plugin where all new feature development happens, aimed at new installs and anyone who wants ongoing additions. If you’re already using this plugin, no action is needed; installing Spectra Blocks is entirely optional whenever you’re ready. If you’re already using this plugin, you don’t need to do anything. If you want new features as they’re released, you can install Spectra Blocks separately, whenever you’re ready. There’s no deadline and no required migration. What’s included Spectra Legacy includes the full block library your site is already built on: layout tools, content and post blocks, form and SEO blocks, social blocks, and site tools like Popup Builder and Coming Soon mode. Blocks included Core — Container, Heading, Image, Icon, Buttons, Info Box, Call To Action, Countdown Content — Sliders, Content Timeline, Google Maps, Inline Notices, Tabs, Taxonomy List, Price List (Loop Builder in Spectra Pro Legacy) Post — Counter, Modal Popup, Post Carousel, Post Grid, Post Timeline Social — Instagram Feed, Blockquote, Social Share, Team, Testimonials Forms — Contact form, newsletter signup, suggestion form, reCAPTCHA (registration/login forms in Spectra Pro Legacy) SEO — FAQ, How-To, Review, Table of Contents Dynamic content — Archive feed filtering by date, author, category, and post type Site tools — Popup Builder, Coming Soon mode, block animations, local Google Fonts, global styling defaults About the AI block The AI block previously included in this plugin is now called ZipAI. It still works in Spectra Legacy for compatibility. New AI features are being built in Spectra Blocks going forward. Compatibility Works with most standard WordPress themes, including Spectra One, Astra, Blocksy, and GeneratePress. Compatible with common plugins including WooCommerce, SureCart, Gravity Forms, LearnDash, MemberPress, and Yoast SEO. See our documentation for the full compatibility list. Support & community Spectra Legacy is actively maintained — security patches, compatibility updates, and support all continue. This plugin is not deprecated. Support forum: use the Support tab on this page Documentation: wpspectra.com/docs Facebook Group: Web Creators by Astra Facebook: Spectra X (Twitter): @wpspectra Contribute Spectra is open source. Browse the code or contribute on GitHub: brainstormforce/wp-spectra Credits Our external packages use Rating Star Component that are distributed under the terms of the ISC. While Slick, Lottie and Striptags is distributed under the terms of the MIT. Additionally, we incorporate FontAwesome v6 under the CC BY 4.0 License, and dnd kit licensed under the MIT License.