Meta Box Blocks Extension
Building custom Gutenberg blocks with PHP. No React, Webpack or Babel. Beautiful syntax, powerful features.
Since version 5.0, the block editor (Gutenberg) has become the default editor for WordPress. Meta Box Blocks Extension allows you to write the content and get a live preview in real-time. In other words, what you write is what you will see on the front end.
Gutenberg supports many blocks for content creation. But it is never enough. WordPress developers still need to create custom Gutenberg blocks for their specific content. And that is where Meta Box Blocks Extension can help you speed up this process.
How Meta Box Blocks Extension can help to create Gutenberg blocks?
Creating a custom Gutenberg block requires WordPress developers to use React with modern JavaScript tools, such as Webpack and Babel. The JavaScript setup and creation process is not easy for most WordPress developers, who have spent years learning PHP to build WordPress themes or create custom plugins. Learning something new is not always an option for them.
With the help of Meta Box Blocks Extension, WordPress developers can create custom Gutenberg blocks with just PHP! There is no JavaScript setup and no need to learn React. Everything is pure PHP, just like you create a custom meta box with Meta Box Blocks Extension.
What are the benefits of creating Gutenberg blocks with PHP?
With most WordPress developers being more familiar with PHP than JavaScript, using the Meta Box Blocks Extension to create custom Gutenberg blocks has several benefits:
You only need to spend a very short time to learn how to create custom Gutenberg blocks in PHP. If you are already a Meta Box user, you only need to learn a few settings. The whole thing will take no more than 10 minutes!
You don't have to learn a new JavaScript framework - React just needs to write a simple Gutenberg block.
And you don't have to spend an entire day figuring out how to configure Webpack and Babel to compile your JavaScript code.
Along with that, you can also:
Create complex Gutenberg blocks with multiple block configurations, which is not always easy to do with JavaScript.
Inherit many settings and field types from Meta Box (over 40 field types), saving you a lot of time creating new blocks.
That said, you just need to focus on the logic and presentation of your block and leave all the heavy lifting of configuring the fields to Meta Box Blocks Extension.
Real-time live preview blocks
Just like creating Gutenberg blocks with JavaScript, creating Gutenberg blocks with the Meta Box Blocks Extension gives you full Gutenberg functionality. You can edit the block settings and see the changes in real-time. Whenever you make a change to a block field, the block immediately re-renders with the new field value.
Additionally, if your block requires any dynamic scripting (like if you want to instantiate a slider), you are fully capable of doing so.
Create Gutenberg blocks visually
If you are not familiar with coding, you can still benefit from Meta Box Blocks Extension with the help of Meta Box Builder. The builder extension allows you to build Gutenberg blocks without touching a line of code. All you need is to select the block settings and you are good to go!
Features of Meta Box Blocks Extension
- It uses a syntax similar to creating a metabox, so you don't have to learn too much if you are already familiar with Meta Box.
- Supports all Meta Box field types and features.
- Ability to work with dynamic JavaScript if you want to run your custom JavaScript for the blocks.
- Supports block alignment in Gutenberg
- Supports custom CSS class
- Supports custom anchoring
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