Stepped Content – guide readers through content one step at a time vs Syntax-highlighting Code Block (with Server-side Rendering)

Turn overwhelming walls of text into engaging, guided steps your readers actually finish. Stepped Content | Pricing | Support | Demo Why Stepped Content? Long pages lose readers. Stepped Content is a powerful Gutenberg plugin that transforms long content into engaging, guided steps. Instead of overwhelming visitors with large blocks of text, you break information into simple, digestible sections – boosting readability and user engagement. Whether you’re creating tutorials, onboarding flows, guides, lessons, courses, or feature walkthroughs, Stepped Content gives you clean navigation, customizable layouts, and flexible design controls – all from the block editor, no coding required. Demos Free Features Reading Time Indicator: Show the remaining duration needed to finish reading the content. Custom Step Height: Set a custom height for the step content. Navbar Customization: Customize the navbar with a custom title and colors. Sidebar Colors: Apply different colors to the sidebar menu. Per-Step Styling: Change the text color and background for each step. Step Titles: Show or hide the step title, or set a custom title instead of the default. Button Colors: Set custom colors for the Back, Next, and Done buttons. Pro Version – Unlock Premium Power Stepped Content Pro adds layout enhancements and deeper content control for advanced users. Pro features include: Navigation Bar Toggle: Show or hide the top navigation bar. Sidebar Themes: Change the sidebar theme for better appearance. Custom Back Button: Use an icon, the previous step title, or custom text. Custom Next Button: Use an icon, the next step title, or custom text. Custom Done Button: Set custom text for the Done button. Done Button Target: Choose whether the Done button link opens in a new or current tab. How to Use – Quick Start Install and activate the Stepped Content plugin. In the Gutenberg editor, add the Stepped Content block from the “Widgets” block category. Add your steps and adjust settings from the right-side settings sidebar. Publish and enjoy! Live Demo | Upgrade to Pro Use Cases Tutorials & How-Tos: Walk readers through processes one step at a time. Onboarding Flows: Guide new users or customers through setup. Documentation: Organize product docs into clear, navigable sections. Lessons & Courses: Deliver learning material in digestible steps. Feature Walkthroughs: Present product features as a guided tour. User Feedback ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect for my site ❛❛I needed some specialized version of the stepped content plugin and contacted support. Within a week they added the features I needed to their premium version, which was more than I expected. It works perfectly.❜❜ –cs Did you like this plugin? Have a feature request? Please share your feedback with us Check out the Parent Plugin of this plugin- B Blocks – A blocks collection and page building tool for Gutenberg. Check out our other WordPress Plugins- Html5 Video Player – Display videos as single and playlist in multiple skins. PDF Poster – Display/Embed PDF files with different styles. Html5 Audio Player – Listen audios with awesome visuals. StreamCast – Customizable radio player with different skins. 3D Viewer – Embed 3D models and 3D products with interaction. Advanced Post Block – Show posts and custom posts in different layouts. Third-Party Libraries This plugin bundles the following third-party JavaScript/PHP libraries. Freemius Lite SDK Source: https://bplugins.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/bPlugins/freemius-lite-sdk License: GPL-2.0-or-later – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Purpose: Provides an opt-in consent form for usage tracking and analytics to help improve the plugin. No data is sent before explicit user consent. External Services: Communicates with api.bplugins.com (activation events) and wp.freemius.com (opt-in processing) only after user opt-in. See bPlugins Privacy Policy and Freemius Privacy Policy. Freemius SDK Source: https://freemius.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/Freemius/wordpress-sdk License: GPLv3 – https://github.com/Freemius/wordpress-sdk/blob/master/LICENSE.txt Purpose: Provides opt-in usage tracking and analytics to help improve the plugin. bpl-tools Source / GitHub: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools License: GPL-2.0-or-later – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Purpose: Shared utility library providing admin dashboard components and common Gutenberg editor controls. External Services: The library may connect to bPlugins, WordPress.org, and Freemius services for product data and checkout functionality. See full details: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools#external-requests–why-they-are-made

This plugin extends the Code block in WordPress core to add syntax highlighting which is rendered on the server. Pre-existing Code blocks on a site are automatically extended to include syntax highlighting. Doing server-side syntax highlighting eliminates the need to enqueue any JavaScript on the frontend (e.g. Highlight.js or Prism.js) and this ensures there is no flash of unhighlighted code (FOUC?). Reducing script on the frontend improves frontend performance, and it also allows for the syntax highlighted code to appear properly in AMP pages as rendered by the official AMP plugin (see also ampproject/amp-wp#972) or when JavaScript is turned off in the browser. This extended Code block uses language auto-detection to add syntax highlighting, but you can override the language in the block’s settings sidebar. (There is currently no syntax highlighting of the Code block in the editor, but see #8.) The plugin supports all programming languages that highlight.php supports (being a port of highlight.js). The Code block also is extended to support specifying lines to highlight which get marked up with mark elements (including in RSS feeds). There is also a checkbox for whether to show line numbers on the frontend (with the numbers being non-selectable). Lastly, given inconsistencies across themes regarding whether lines in a Code block should be wrapped, this plugin adds styling to force them to no-wrap by default, with a checkbox to opt in to wrapping when desired. For advanced usage, please see the plugin wiki. This plugin is developed on GitHub. See list of current issues with the plugin. Please feel free to file any additional issues or requests that you may come across. Pull requests are welcome. See contributing information. Credits This is a fork of Code Syntax Block by Marcus Kazmierczak (mkaz), which is also available on WordPress.org. Copyright (c) 2018 Marcus Kazmierczak. Licensed under GPL 2.0 or later. highlight.php is released under the BSD 3-Clause License. Copyright © 2006-2013, Ivan Sagalaev ([email protected]), highlight.js (original author). Copyright © 2013, Geert Bergman ([email protected]), highlight.php