CP Blocks vs TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress

CP Blocks main features: Multiple blocks of code in the users’ websites Integration with the Calculated Fields Form plugin Integration with the Contact Form 7 plugin Allows the insertion of blocks in the website’s posts and pages Constant development including many new blocks … and more features CP Blocks is an easy way to insert cool buttons, styles, scripts, payment / donation buttons and features into your WordPress website without requiring programming knowledge. With CP Blocks you can access many resources like design elements, form’s fields, new features, and more. The use of CP Blocks is very simple, just press the “Insert Block” button in the controls of the “Contact Form 7” or the “Calculated Fields Form” plugin (Screenshots: 2. Contact Form 7 integration and 3. Calculated Fields Form integration), the “Insert Block” button is available beside the “Add Media” button too over the content of the pages/posts (Screenshot: 4. Integration with pages and posts) Some of the free blocks included are: Text Length: To calculate the number of characters in a text Print Form: For printing a form Lorem Ipsum Generator: Lorem ipsum text generator PayPal Donation Button: For inserting PayPal donation buttons Disable Text Selection Hightlighting: Disable the text selection hightlighting on the page Disable Right-click on the Page: Disable the mouse right-click menu Display current date: display the current date on the page Autorefresh page: Autorefresh the page every a specified number of seconds Tooltips: Allows associating tooltips to the form’s elements Grow Effect: Design effect Rounded Button: Button design Animated Border Button: Button design Corner Tab Button: Button design Border Effect Button: Button design Animated Border Button 2: Button design Button With Fold Effect: Button design Corner Tab Button 2: Button design Corner Tab Button 3: Button design Animated Border Button 3: Button design Slide Down Fill Button: Button design Slide Up Fill Button: Button design Slide Left Fill Button: Button design Dark Button With Icon: Button design Dark Button With Icon 2: Button design Beveled Dark Button: Button design Curtain Effect Button: Button design Button With Scaled Icon: Button design Image With Overlaying Testimonial: Information box design Testimonial Card with Icon, Quote and Title: Information box design Testimonial Card with Image, Title and Quote: Information box design Testimonial with Profile Image: Information box design Testimonial Card with Image, Title and Quote: Information box design Testimonial with Quote and Profile Image: Information box design Dark Themed Testimonial with Tile Quote and Profile Image: Information box design Some of the additional commercial blocks are: Words Counter: To calculate the number of words in a text Read CSV File: For reading an online CSV file and use it into form PayPal Payment Button: Inserts a PayPal one time payment button PayPal Subscription Button: Inserts a PayPal recurrent payment button Skrill Payment Button: Inserts a Skrill one time payment button Address Field: Inserts an autocomplete address field integrated to Google Places Prevent framing: Inserts a block to find out if the page is embedded as a frame to other site and will prevent that by redirecting to the correct page without framing Detect HTTP or HTTPS then force HTTPS: Inserts a code block to detect HTTP or HTTPS and then force usage of HTTPS to be sure that the page is loaded over a SSL secure connection. Ad Blocker Alert: Displays a pop-up window if there is an Ad Blocker active in the browser and limits the access to the page’s content in that case. How to insert the blocks? Press the “Insert Blocks” button in the toolbar of the forms builder in the “Calculated Fields Form” (Screenshot: 3. Calculated Fields Form integration), or the toolbar of the “Contact Form 7” (Screenshot: 2. Contact Form 7 integration). The button is available too beside the “Add Media” button in the posts and pages (Screenshot: 4. Integration with pages and posts) CP Blocks opens a popup window (Screenshot: 5. Blocks popup), that includes at top-right the list of blocks categories, and below it, the list of blocks. Selecting a specific category the blocks list is refreshed with their blocks. After selecting a block, its description, assets and insertion options are displayed in the right column (Screenshot: 6. Inserting the block) Pressing the “Insert Block” button the piece of code corresponding to the block is inserted in the website (Screenshot: 7. Block in the CFF form)

Tailwind CSS is a great companion to building block based sites in WordPress. Unfortunately, it’s been pretty complicated to add Tailwind CSS to WordPress since it needs to be compiled with Node.js in order to be production ready. This plugin takes care of that by adding Tailwind CSS to WordPress in one easy step (activate the plugin) and at the same time takes care of performance and caching so your site remains fast and production ready! Who It’s For This is primarily for developers and users that are familiar with Tailwind CSS and comfortable styling their site using their utility class framework. It’s also for those who have struggled to add Tailwind to their workflow without having to constantly compile their CSS every time the classes in their page content changes. How it Works Extracts classes from pages and compiles them server-side into Tailwind CSS Caches the dynamically generated CSS to avoid performance issues on the frontend of your production site. Are you affiliated with tailpress.io the theme? No, we are not! Unfortunately the same name was used for both out of coincidence, but we are not affiliated and are two different solutions. Tailpress.io is a great starting point for developing custom themes with deep integration of Tailwind. I would recommend it for any developer that wants to build a custom theme that depends heavily on Tailwind. Tailpress, this plugin, adds Tailwind support to any project as an add-on. It can be used as much or as little as you need, added to custom themes or pre-existing ones. Can this be used in production? Yes! Although the styles in the backend get generated on the fly, the CSS on the frontend gets cached for every page. Changing any classes on the page will bust the cache automatically so it’ll still stay up to date with any changes. Can this be used outside the block editor? Yes! This will work anywhere on the backend or front end of your site that uses classes to style things. Known Issues Device Preview Mode in Block Editor The non-desktop preview modes in the block editor utilize an iframe and don’t load assets properly. Therefore your Tailwind styles won’t be visible here. Page Caching If you have any page caching on your site, you’ll have to clear your cache for the best experience.