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Bring your creative visions to life with Essential Blocks for Gutenberg, the ultimate Gutenberg blocks library for the WordPress default editor!
Enhance your web-building experience with the essential Gutenberg extensions’ 70+ unique blocks and the brand‑new AI feature for image generating & content writing. Add power to the block editor using our easy-to-use blocks, which are designed to make your next WordPress page or post design easier and prettier than ever before. Plus, AI helps you generate rich, high‑quality content instantly with just a few keywords.
See It In Action: Check out all the interactive block demos in one place.
Generate engaging content for pages and posts in seconds with the Write With AI feature of Essential Blocks. Simply enter a few keywords and submit your prompt. Our built‑in AI engine will create rich, high-quality content instantly.
Get AI-generated content in one click for all your rich text input blocks. With this global AI feature, you can automatically create, modify, or personalize your text content fields for any Gutenberg block.
🦾 GENERATE IMAGE WITH AI IN WORDPRESS
Directly from your Gutenberg editor, generate AI images with your given prompt within a few seconds. To get the best output, customize options like AI model, image type, sizes, etc. Create AI images for Gutenberg blocks in one click.
Each Gutenberg block comes with a bunch of options to control every possible aspect of your website design on the block editor. You can design your page with endless customization options using this amazing Gutenberg blocks plugin.
Now, any block can be saved with customized styling. You can also personalize the colors and typography throughout your entire website. This boosts efficiency, so you do not have to recreate the same styling repeatedly on all pages or posts.
No extra resources or messy code to slow down your website. Optimized for super-fast loading and instant live editing.
Translate Gutenberg blocks with WPML in your chosen language & offer a multilingual experience to your visitors.
Enable and disable individual blocks to make your page load faster and smoother. You can deactivate unnecessary blocks to keep the site lightweight.
Keep your website’s loading speed fast and secure against heavy scripts and CSS files with the Asset Regeneration feature.
Choose any Google Font you prefer from a collection of 1,000+ font families available using Essential Blocks. Now, you can give your websites a customized look with stunning typography.
Apply display conditions to the blocks you’ve selected based on a variety of factors, including date and time, query strings, user roles, and browsers. Easily create visibility restrictions for content using the Gutenberg editor.
Easily upload SVG and JSON files directly to your WordPress Media Library without hitting file type restrictions. This unlocks advanced customization possibilities, empowering you to seamlessly integrate custom animations, illustrations, and data-driven visuals into your Gutenberg experience.
Directly from your Gutenberg block editor, you can control each block’s responsiveness individually. With flexible, responsive customization options, make your website user-friendly for all devices.
Add smooth, glossy liquid glassmorphism effects to your WordPress site; no coding is needed. Instantly bring modern and futuristic UI to Gutenberg designs.
With our latest exclusive feature, animation, you can design every block with a stunning animated appearance. Add smooth transitions, scroll effects and vibrant animations. Grab users’ attention instantly with eye-catching animations, transitions, and many more.
Enhance the flexibility and customization options of your Gutenberg-built website and easily add custom fields to posts, pages, or custom post types with dynamic placeholders or variables generated from various parameters or data sources.
Instantly add engaging transform effects to your Gutenberg blocks and create interactive experiences without any coding. Apply hover animations, dynamic transitions, and smooth visual transformations to make your website feel modern, responsive, and visually captivating.
Secure any Gutenberg block, section, or content with password protection and control who gets access. Easily restrict premium resources, exclusive content, private pages, or client-only sections directly from the block editor without writing a single line of code.
Get stunningly designed, ready-to-use Gutenberg block patterns for your WordPress website. Instantly add a block layout to Gutenberg or your site editor to make your website-building experience faster and more effective.
Explore and access Templately’s 3,000+ ready, AI-powered Gutenberg templates created with Essential Blocks. You can easily insert the entire site with a single click, customize the fully responsive templates to your liking, upload the designs to the Templately cloud solution for future use, and easily collaborate with your team.
You will find a wide variety of stunning Gutenberg website or web page templates in any niche:
– Blog & Magazine
– Celebration
– Creative
– eCommerce
– Education
– Entertainment
– Fashion & Lifestyle
– Food & Restaurant
– Health & Medical
– Multipurpose
– NFT & Crypto Currency
– Non-profit
– Portfolio & Consultancy
– Technology
– Travel… and many more.
We have a very friendly support team ready to help you out. Ask your questions in the support forum; we will get back to you immediately.
Design without limits in WordPress block editor, using 70+ of the most useful Essential Blocks for Gutenberg.
More Gutenberg blocks and demos coming soon for the block visual editor (weekly update)
Learn from our video tutorials available on our Youtube Channel.
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The full source code is available on GitHub Repository. Feel free to contribute or report an issue.
If you like Essential Blocks, then consider checking out our other WordPress Plugins:
🎨 Templately – Ultimate AI-powered templates cloud for WordPress with thousands of ready Gutenberg website layout designs and unique cloud collaboration features.
🔔 NotificationX– Best social proof and FOMO marketing solution to boost conversions & design stunning WordPress notification bars.
🗒️ BetterDocs – Best AI-powered documentation & knowledge base plugin for WordPress to help you reduce support tickets.
⏰ SchedulePress – Complete solution for managing WordPress content scheduling through an editorial calendar & social share
📌 EmbedPress – Easiest embedding solution for WordPress for embedding 250+ multimedia content sources.
🔗 BetterLinks – Advanced WordPress link management plugin for link shortening, tracking & analyzing with Instant Redirect for Gutenberg.
Note: Since Essential Blocks is a Gutenberg library, you must activate Gutenberg editor to use it.
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Install and activate Essential Blocks for Gutenberg on your website. Create a new page and click the ‘+’ sign, and you will find all the creative Gutenberg blocks there. Now click on the block you want to insert in your page and create amazing pages.
Essential Blocks allows you to create as many AI images and text as you want. And the feature is entirely free. All you have to do is integrate ChatGPT Pro with the plugin to use all of the AI features.
You can save any block from Essential Blocks for Gutenberg as a reusable block easily. Click on any block you want to save as reusable, then click on the ‘Add to reusable blocks,’ and instantly, that block will be converted into a reusable block.
Essential Blocks for Gutenberg has no theme dependency. This Gutenberg blocks plugin is compatible with any updated WordPress theme.
No, Essential Blocks will not slow down your website. This Gutenberg blocks plugin brings you the outstanding facility of complete modular control over the activation of each block. We have also used optimized codes for this plugin, which helps to load only the resources that are currently used.
Yes, you can still use Essential Blocks. These Gutenberg blocks are created in such a way that you can use and customize them without code.
You can only use Essential Blocks with the Gutenberg editor. It does not support any other website builder or editor.
Also, the Gutenberg blocks available with Essential Blocks plugin are 100% responsive and have cross-browser compatibility. So it is responsive on smaller devices as well.
Uninstall all plugins on your website except Essential Blocks for Gutenberg. Then check if any conflict is still occurring or not. If you encounter conflicts, then contact our support team.
If you want to apply custom CSS with Essential Blocks for Gutenberg, then click on the specific block you want to add CSS code to. Then navigate to the ‘Advanced’ tab and add your custom CSS code. You have to create a class first and then add your custom CSS.
If you want to skip customizing each essential block on your own, you can use ready templates to create stunning blocks. You will receive access to elegant and sleek, ready templates for Essential Blocks and Gutenberg with the Templately plugin.
Yes, Essential Blocks provides you with a ready, professionally designed Gutenberg pattern.
You only need the Gutenberg block editor to use Essential Blocks plugin on your WordPress website. Then you can use Essential Blocks and create stunning pages.
Yes, you can effortlessly create stunning WooCommerce stores and display your products using Woo blocks from Essential Blocks. More blocks are coming soon.
If you found the recent version of Essential Blocks isn’t working or conflicting with other plugins, then you can use earlier versions of the plugin.
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