Content Blocks Builder – Create blocks, repeater blocks with carousel, grid, popup layouts vs Qi Blocks

Content Blocks Builder (CBB) helps you create custom blocks, variations, styles, and patterns — directly in the Block Editor without touching a code editor. The WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) is a solid foundation for building websites. But when you need more specific layouts or custom functionality not available in default blocks, you’re often forced to write custom code or rely on bloated third-party plugins. CBB solves this by letting you visually group core or third-party blocks into flexible container blocks — right inside the native Block Editor. These container blocks support native features like typography, spacing, colors, borders, plus advanced features from CBB that help you build layouts like responsive grid, slider/carousel, toggle/accordion, modal/off-canvas/popover, background effects all without writing a single line of code. You can also build repeater blocks to display repeatable content — similar to ACF repeater field type, but entirely block-based and visual. 👉 Read the detailed guide to CBB blocks. The ultimate goal of CBB is to help you build complex layouts — all with core blocks, all visually, and fully compatible with any Gutenberg-ready theme. No React. No PHP. No lock-in. No clutter. No bloat. Developer-friendly. Key technical features Manage custom blocks: Create, edit, copy, import, and delete custom blocks. Create repeater blocks that work similarly to ACF repeater fields. Supports carousel, grid, accordion and vertical stack layouts. [CBB Pro] Extenral CSS/JS and Custom CSS/JS: You can enqueue external CSS or JavaScript files and write your own custom code directly for your blocks. This feature makes CBB feel a bit like CodePen.io—but for Gutenberg blocks. You can create anything you can imagine on the frontend. Advanced block support features: Modal, off-canvas, popover, toggle content, sticky, responsive dimensions, spacing, custom attributes, reveal animations, etc. Manage block variations & block styles: Create, edit, copy, import, and delete block variations. It works on any block. CBB Pro enables you to input custom CSS for variations. Manage block patterns: Create, edit, copy, import, and delete custom block patterns. Enhance the Query Loop block: Add grid, carousel layouts, and advanced filter and sorting settings. Works with any post types. Import/export custom blocks, variations, and patterns from/to other sites Pre-built library: A library of pre-built blocks, variations, styles, and patterns. This library is not bundled with CBB; only items you import appear on your site. CBB are built with vanilla JS and CSS. It only depends on SwiperJs for the carousel functionality, — and even then, the script and styles are loaded only if the carousel layout is used. Practical features you can build with CBB Carousel layouts: Ideal for creating banner slider, posts carousel, gallery, carousel of features or other repeating content, etc. CBB provides one of the best way to create a carousel layout in Gutenberg. Built on top of the popular SwiperJs carousel script, it supports extensive customization. CBB Pro enables you to create entrance effects, advanced slide effects with effect builder, and further customization like slides per breakpoint, pagination, navigation, and synced carousels. Responsive grid layouts: Perfect for creating equal column grid, mosaic grid, bento grid, posts grid, grid of features or other repeating content, etc. CBB provides the easiest but most flexible and robost grid layout based on CSS Grid layout. You can customize template columns, grid gaps, size, and location for each grid item. Accordion layouts: Good for creating FAQ page, navigations, long features or specications. Blog page design, magazine layout, post grid, post carousel; Work with any post types. Modal, off-canvas, popover, toggle content: Great for creating popups, notification bars, toggle menu, toggle search box, hamburger menu, popover, show/hide content, etc. CBB Pro allows you to add a custom entrance animation effect, control when popups appear with delay options, trigger them on scroll to elements or exit intent, and remember when a popup has been closed. Sticky content: Great for fixed/sticky header, footer, floating elements, sticky sidebar. CBB Pro enables you to style blocks based on their stuck state and make blocks sticky only when scrolling up. [CBB Pro] Backgound effect: Add parallax, infinite scrolling, and zooming effect to image easily. Perfect for hero section designs. [CBB Pro] Reveal animations: Add stunning effects to blocks when they appear on the viewport the first time. [CBB Pro] Custom layout & style: With the ability to enqueue external JS/CSS and input custom JS/CSS, you can do anything with your blocks on frontend. For dynamic data, we recommend using the Meta Field Block plugin. It’s the best way to display dynamic data. Why choose CBB? It’s fast, clean, flexible and code-free. It uses core blocks to build container blocks. It’s bloat-free. It doesn’t come bundled with a ton of specific-use blocks like other multiple-feature plugins. It’s easy to use. It adheres to Gutenberg and maintain the primary user experience of Gutenberg, so anyone familiar with the Block Editor is already familiar with CBB. Sites built with CBB are easier to maintain as most tasks are accomplished through the Block Editor. You don’t need to know React to create complex blocks or maintain a code repository for them. You can also import/export them from/to other sites. How does it help? Below are some video tutorials that demonstrate how you can use this plugin to build your sites: Create a grid repeater block to display a grid of repeating content Create a banner slider for your site directly on the Editor Create a custom blog page Create a featured posts section Create a glow-hover effect button variation More video tutorials Create custom layouts CBB includes five built-in layout blocks: Advanced Group, Grid, Carousel, Stack and Accordion. You can use them or build your custom layout blocks easily. Watch the video tutorial to create a simple responsive grid using the built-in Grid block. Create a similar layout by creating a custom grid block. Watch the video tutorial to create a banner slider using the built-in Carousel block. Watch the video tutorial to create a FAQ section using the built-in Accordion block. Create popup, off-canvas, popover, and toggle content With the toggle content feature, you can build a popup, off-canvas, popover, and toggle content easily and you can put anything in there. Watch the step-by-step video tutorial to create modal, off-canvas content. Create a responsive header with hamburger menu and search bar toggle. Create a notification bar. Create a video popup. Create a cookie popup. Create an off-canvas content. Enhance the Query Loop and other blocks CBB provides a bunch of advanced features to add style to custom blocks like responsive width, height, spacing, border, box-shadow, transform, alignments etc. And by wrapping around other blocks, you can add those features to other blocks as well. How to build a magazine layout grid with just one Query Loop block Create a banner slider using the Query Loop block. Create a carousel of posts using the Query Loop block. Create a blog layout with overlay style using the Query Loop block. Create block variations, block styles, and block patterns CBB helps you create custom variations, styles, and patterns directly in the Block Editor without using a code editor. Create variations and styles for the core image block. Create variations for any block. Create patterns. Google Fonts This feature does a really simple job, it loads a font for headings text and another for the body text from more than 1000+ Google Fonts easily with a few clicks. If you are worried about GDPR compliance, there is an option to load fonts from Bunny Fonts instead of Google Fonts. How to use Google Fonts and be GDPR compliant. Which theme should I use with this plugin? It is compatible with all Gutenberg-ready themes, but our recommended themes are default themes such as Twenty Twenty Four, Twenty Twenty Five, Twenty Twenty Three, Twenty Twenty Two, or Astra theme. How does it work with other blocks/plugins? This plugin works with all third-party blocks but we recommend using single-block plugins for lightweight and performance. We also develop several single block plugins, that work great with this plugin, please see them in the below section. Design library We have already included a library of block patterns for you to quickly use or customize to fit your design. There is a popup inserter in the block editor for you to find and insert patterns with a few clicks. How to use the pattern inserter popup. Browse the Design Library to see what the plugin can do for you. Block and Variation library Besides the pattern library, we have built an external library of content blocks and common block variations. All of the blocks/variations in this library have been created by CBB directly in the Block Editor. With a few clicks, you can easily import blocks or variations into your site. You use them directly or customize or learn from them. Watch some video tutorials to learn how to use the library: Import the particles background block. Import the basic header block. Import the Query Loop variations. Import the arrow buttons. Learn CBB Check out the documentation at contentblocksbuilder.com. Watch all tutorials on Youtube. We’re still recording video tutorials, so please subscribe to our YouTube channel to get a notification when new videos are released. Pro version In short, the professional version adds following advanced features to your content such as: Custom CSS: Adjusts layout and style easily right in the inspector settings. Enqueue external JS/CSS and add custom JS/CSS to blocks. This powerful feature lets you create blocks with any style or interactive effect, just like on CodePen.io. You write the JS/CSS, and CBB takes care of the rest behind the scenes. Premium background effects: Includes parallax, infinite scrolling, and zooming effect to background image. Premium carousel features: Adds entrance animations, advanced effects, an effect builder, customized pagination, navigation, etc. Premium toggle content features: Enhancements for modal, off-canvas, and popover content with custom entrance animations, delay time, trigger on scroll, exit intent, and closed state saving. Premium sticky content features: Detects stuck state and adds the ability to make blocks sticky only on scrolling up. Add custom CSS to variations. Reveal/entrance animations: Adds stunning effects to blocks when they first appear in the viewport. Check out this video tutorial to learn how to create a Google Map block and see how Content Blocks Builder (CBB Pro) helps you build powerful, custom Gutenberg blocks — without writing any React or PHP code. Watch more video tutorials to see how the Pro version can help you build advanced features for your sites: Create a sticky header. Create a custom block for the image zooming effect like Medium using an external script. Create a page title bar with a parallax background effect. How to create an animated heading block. How to create a Back To Top block. How to create an image compare block. Create the infinite scrolling background effect Create the parallax background effect Go premium to unlock advanced features with CBB Pro. If this plugin is useful for you, please do a quick review and rate it on WordPress.org to help us spread the word. I would very much appreciate it. Other plugins Please check out my other plugins if you’re interested: Meta Field Block – A single block to display custom fields in the Block Editor without coding. It supports ACF, MetaBox, WooCommerce, meta, rest field, shortcode and more. Works everywhere: in the Site Editor (FSE), the Block Editor, inside Query Loop, WooCommerce Product Collection, Term Query blocks, and even in template files. SVG Block – A block to display SVG images as blocks. Useful for images, icons, dividers, and buttons. It allows you to upload SVG images and load them into the icon library. Icon separator – A tiny block just like the core/separator block but with the ability to add an icon. Breadcrumb Block – A simple breadcrumb trail block that supports JSON-LD structured data and is compatible with WooCommerce. Block Enhancements – Adds practical features to blocks like icons, box shadows, transforms, etc. Counting Number Block – A block to display numbers with a counting effect Better YouTube Embed Block – A block to solve the performance issue with embedded YouTube videos. It can also embed multiple videos and playlists. The plugin is developed using @wordpress/scripts. The source code is available in the trunk branch. The pattern, block, and variation library is hosted at https://boldpatterns.net.

Qi Blocks is the largest collection of Gutenberg blocks developed by one of the most acclaimed WordPress development teams and winners of multiple awards in the field of design, Qode Interactive. The base version of the plugin comes with 48 carefully designed custom blocks with a never-before-seen number of options, while the Qi Blocks Premium gives you a total of 81 flexible, option-rich custom blocks for Gutenberg. All the blocks and templates bear that authentic aesthetic touch Qode Interactive is known for, all while providing you with a simple and completely flexible way for creating any type of website you set out to. In addition to this, you can also upgrade your copy of the plugin with the Qi Templates plugin and enhance your website making potential with an astounding collection of 550+ readymade and beautifully designed modern website layouts, including complete website demos, templates, patterns and wireframes. Open-ended Customization Not only do you get one of the largest collections of custom blocks for Gutenberg, but you’ll also be presented with an unprecedented number of options for each block. We put special emphasis on customization, allowing you to modify every single aspect of each element, all while keeping the entire experience straightforward, intuitive and easy to manage. The Largest Collection of Gutenberg Blocks Qi Blocks plugin comes with typography, infographics, creative, form style, content, business, WooCommerce, SEO and showcase blocks, providing you with a near never-ending supply of website creation possibilities. Each block is built to allow for a huge number of easily applicable modifications you can perform on the fly, ensuring a completely flexible creation of a wide range of modern websites. Superb Performance We made sure that the Qi Blocks is super lightweight, optimized and stable, ensuring swift loading times. Moreover, you can make use of on-demand element loading by deactivating the blocks you do not plan to use, thus making this already quick addon even smoother! Pro Support If you ever happen to run into any questions or concerns regarding the Qi Blocks or any of its elements, we got you covered! You can check out our Qi Blocks documentation, with all options and features of every block covered in detail. You can also visit the Qode Help Center where you can browse our comprehensive knowledge base or contact our support team and one of our friendly support pros will get back to you ASAP. Qi Blocks Video Tutorials Visit the official Qode Interactive YouTube channel here you’ll find a comprehensive set of video tutorials dedicated to Qi Blocks and all its elements. It’s also a practical way to learn how you can achieve more with WordPress, with tons of detailed, user-friendly video user guides. One step at a time, discover more about the WP platform and how you can create stunning websites the easiest way possible. 48 Free Custom Blocks Here’s an overview of all 48 custom blocks you get with the free version of the plugin: Typography Custom Blocks: Section Title – Great for creating captivating and fully configurable titles for any section on your website pages. Divider – Easily display your style of visual separators between elements and sections on pages. Button – A custom block ideal for composing fully customizable buttons the easy way. Call to Action – Perfect for creating visually appealing messages for your visitors and encouraging them to take a certain action. Message Boxes – Display informative boxes with important notifications or messages for your visitors. These boxes can be closed if the viewer chooses to do so. Horizontal Tabs – Arrange and organize horizontally aligned tabs with content which you can customize to fit your visual style. Vertical Tabs – Great for displaying vertically laid out tabs with content which you can adapt to fit your aesthetic approach. Accordions and Toggles – Designed for displaying strings of text divided into individual sections that can be expanded when their corresponding titles are clicked on. Icon with Text – A custom block that lets you display icons with some additional textual content which you can customize to fit your visual concept. Advanced Text – For creating sections with fully customizable strings of text on your pages. Business Custom Blocks: Pricing Table – Create easily adjustable tables for displaying all manner of price lists, tariffs and pricing plans. Clients List – Display a captivating list of your clients or business associates the easy way. Testimonials – Devised for showing testimonials with total ease & in the way you decide. Team – A selection of varied ways to showcase individual members of your team. Info Box – Compose sections with important informative messages for your visitors using simple and fully flexible box templates. Banners – Create banners for displaying important announcements, ads or anything else you wish to draw the attention of your visitors to. Blog List – Great way to display a captivating list with your blog posts in a number of visually appealing manners. Infographics Custom Blocks: Counters – Great for showing all your important numbers in fully customizable and captivating counter layouts. Radial Progress Bar – For featuring neat visual representations of operation progressions. Horizontal Progress Bar – Showcase progressions of all types of processes in fully customizable horizontally laid out progress bars. Vertical Progress Bar – Create presentations for all sorts of process progressions in easily configurable vertically arranged progress bar layouts. Process – A clear and intuitive way to display any type of process divided by stages in a visually appealing manner. Showcase Custom Blocks: Timeline Showcase – A simple and intuitive way to display visually appealing chronological lists of events. Countdown – Announce anything you wish by displaying eye-catching countdowns to a date you input. Image Gallery – A straightforward way to display your images in easily configurable eye-catching galleries. Image Slider – Present your images in captivating, fully configurable slider layouts. Masonry Image Gallery – Show off your images in easily configurable captivating masonry-styled galleries. Pinterest Image Gallery – Exhibit your images in easily configurable captivating pinterest-styled galleries. Single Image – Create easily configurable individual image displays on your website pages. Creative Custom Blocks: Cards Gallery – Display interactive presentations with multiple images set on top of each other; once an image from the stack is clicked on, it moves to the top. Parallax Image Showcase – Perfect for composing visually attractive sections with images that move independently at different speeds on scroll. Text Marquee – Easily create sections with customizable auto-scrolling text. WooCommerce Custom Blocks: Product List – Display beautiful and easily adjustable lists containing products you wish to showcase. SEO Custom Blocks: FAQs – A custom block great for displaying fully customizable sections for frequently asked questions and topics. How-to Schema – Create step-by step tutorials and how-to’s with automatically generating JSON schema sections inserted into code. Table of Contents – For displaying neatly structured tables of contents with one-click one-page navigation. Form Style Custom Blocks: Contact Form 7 – For creating a wide variety of fully flexible contact forms using the free Contact Form 7 plugin. Content Custom Blocks: Advanced Columns – Specifically developed for creating easily customizable columns to which you can add your content. Spacer – A simple way to add easily adjustable vertical breaks between sections on your pages. Author Info – Designed for displaying captivating presentations for authors on your website. Post Title – Easily display configurable titles of posts on your website. Post Date – Show easily configurable dates of posts on your website. Post Author – A straightforward way to display the authors of posts on your website. Comments Template – Designed so you can show easily adjustable comment templates on your website. Post Terms – Display post terms or taxonomy items related to your posts. Categories – A practical way to display a list of post categories on your website. Tag Cloud – A neat way to display previously created tags of your choosing in a number of ways. Search – Designed for displaying easily configurable search bars. 33 Premium Custom Blocks Check out the complete list of widgets you get with Qi Blocks Premium: Premium Typography Custom Blocks: Drop Caps – Introduce your paragraphs & strings of text by featuring a decorative initial letter which you can fully adapt. Typeout Text – Feature smoothly animated type out text sections anywhere on your pages. Animated Text – Designed for displaying visually engaging sections with animated textual content. Highlighted Text – Accentuate certain words or parts of your text the way you choose. Blockquote – A simple way to display eye-catching quotes and style them the way you choose. Info Button – Great for creating buttons that contain a bit of extra information displayed directly on the button. Premium Business Custom Blocks: Pricing List – For displaying easily customizable lists containing items you have for sale and their prices. Working Hours – A great and intuitive way to display your business’ working hours in a number easily styled manners. Clients Carousel – Showcase your clients or business partners in fully customizable carousel slider layouts. Testimonials Carousel – Display testimonials in eye-catching carousel slider layouts. Interactive Banners – Designed for creating visually striking banners that your website visitors can interact with. Blog Carousel – A custom block for displaying your blog posts in eye-catching carousel slider layouts. Data Table – An easy way to display fully adjustable tables containing all types of data. Google Map – A simple way to display an easily editable Google Map with a customizable location pin for multiple addresses. Premium Infographics Custom Blocks: Graphs – Compose captivating and fully customizable graphs containing all sorts of data. Pie and Donut Charts – Display fully customizable pie charts or donut charts in a simple and completely intuitive manner. Premium Showcase Custom Blocks: Item Showcase – Make detailed showcases for items of any sort; you can display an item image with customizable informative sections with your content arranged around the image. Before/After Comparison Slider – Create an interactive presentation containing two images and a draggable handle which reveals the left/right image when mouse-dragged. Dual Image with Content – Easily display sections that contain two images, one placed over the other, with some accompanying content next to them. Cards Slider – Create interactive slider presentations with multiple images stacked on top of each other; when slides change, the bottom image moves to the top of the stack. Image Hotspots – The easy way to create an image showcase section which contains multiple interactive hotspots which reveal tooltip information when hovered on. Content Menu – Display sections containing menus which you can fully customize with ease. Advanced Navigation – A practical way to display your menus in a vast number of easily configurable appearance styles. Premium Creative Custom Blocks: Device Frame Slider – Create visually appealing slider presentations with images displayed inside predefined or custom device-styled image frames. Device Frame Carousel – Display remarkable carousel presentations with multiple items containing images fitted inside device-styled frames. Preview Slider – For creating slider presentations with two image slides displayed simultaneously, one of which is placed on top of the other inside a mobile device-styled image frame. Interactive Links – Create captivating and fully configurable interactive showcases with textual content and corresponding images. Slider Switch – For creating visually appealing slider presentations with two images displayed inside predefined or custom device-styled image frames. Premium WooCommerce Custom Blocks: Product Slider – Showcase your products in eye-catching and fully adaptable slider layouts. Product Category List – Display visually attractive and fully flexible lists with your products designated to a specific category of your choice. Add to Cart Button – Perfect for creating customizable add to cart buttons for your products. Rating – Easily display a fully customizable star-styled rating with 5 degrees. Premium Form Style Custom Blocks: WPForms – Display a wide variety of fully flexible contact forms using the free Contact Form by WPForms plugin. Documentation & Support Check out our step-by-step user guide on how to install and use Qi Blocks. You can also submit a topic to the support forum at and our support team will be glad to help you out.