GenerateBlocks 1.1.2

This release has a couple more bug fixes from our 1.1.0 release.

Legacy background images are no longer invisible in the editor.

We also reverted our parsed content caching due to some conflicts with caching plugins that was found. We’ll re-visit this in a later version.

Full changelog

  • Fix: Set background image selector default if undefined
  • Fix: Set background image opacity default if undefined
  • Tweak: Remove parsed content caching

GenerateBlocks 1.1.1

Quick bug fix here. Somehow an undefined index notice slipped under our radar during testing. All fixed now. Sorry for the hassle!

Changelog

  • Fix: Undefined index notice when using background images

GenerateBlocks 1.1.0

Our first feature release!

This update has a few new features, and fixes a handful of bugs.

Persistent responsive controls

One thing we’ve noticed when building blocks is the number of times we need to click the responsive tabs for each block. If I’m doing something for mobile and switch to another block, I shouldn’t have to click on the mobile tab again.

Now, the responsive tab you click is remembered, so it will remain even when switching to another block.

Pseudo background images

Container background images can now be applied to the Container pseudo element instead of the element itself.

We’ve deprecated the background color overlay option, which used CSS gradients to apply the background color over the background image. The overall experience of this method wasn’t very user-friendly, and it didn’t allow for more advanced effects (color transitions etc..).

Now you can add the image as a pseudo element and adjust the opacity of the background image with a simple range slider right below the option. This is way more user-friendly than the old background color method. It also opens up doors when it comes to more advanced effects.

Align-wide/full support for Containers

Previously, we relied on the theme to provide full width content if you wanted to build out full width containers. This is still the preferred method in GeneratePress.

However, other themes may prefer using the align-wide/full options that Gutenberg provides, so we’ve added support for those options to the Container block if your theme supports them.

Color component palette

Our color component now displays the color palette by default, instead of a custom color picker. You can still toggle the color picker, or you can tell GenerateBlocks to display the picker by default in Settings > GenerateBlocks.

Full changelog

This release has various other bug fixes and tweaks.

1.1.0

  • New: Persistent responsive controls across blocks
  • New: Filter all HTML attributes
  • New: Filter Container tagNames
  • New: Add containerAfterElementTag filter
  • New: Add option to apply background image as pseudo element
  • New: Add support for alignwide/alignfull in Container block
  • New: Display color palette by default in Color component
  • New: Add option to choose default view in Color component
  • New: Add aria-label option for Buttons into advanced panel
  • Tweak: Deprecate background image overlay option
  • Tweak: Move hexToRGBA to utils
  • Tweak: Fix repeated common CSS
  • Tweak: Re-design normal/hover state buttons
  • Tweak: Filter default background image size
  • Tweak: Cache parsed blocks on front-end
  • Tweak: Better display of admin notices in Dashboard
  • Tweak: Change Container Width label to Contained Width
  • Tweak: Add future framework for migrating/updating old options
  • Tweak: Don’t allow single button to be saved as reusable
  • Tweak: Don’t allow element tagName to be filtered
  • Tweak: Allow all standard richText formats in Headline block
  • Tweak: Better iconSize responsive placeholders
  • Tweak: Allow decimal values in gradient start/stop
  • Tweak: Move block name to the end of editor.desktopCSS filter args
  • Tweak: Add buttonColorsHover to editor.controls filter
  • Tweak: Change editor.insideContainerWrapper filter to frontend.insideContainer
  • Tweak: Pass attributes to frontend.insideContainer instead of props
  • Fix: gridId value in nested grids
  • Fix: Use inline-block for inline headlines with no icon
  • Fix: Missing text domains
  • Fix: Display Headline highlight option in Headline block only
  • Fix: Headline icon center alignment in IE
  • Fix: Headline highlight background color in IE
  • Fix: Mobile selector for width in min-height container
  • Fix: Add box-sizing to min-height container on tablet/mobile
  • Fix: Headline text alignment when using an icon
  • Fix: Allow 0 as iconSize value

GenerateBlocks 1.0.1

Our first update!

Just a small one which should fix translation issues in the block editor.

= 1.0.1 =

  • Fix: Add wp_set_script_translations() to translate block editor
  • Tweak: Add spacing to update nag in Settings area

GenerateBlocks 1.0

Welcome to GenerateBlocks 1.0!

GenerateBlocks is a small collection of WordPress blocks for the Gutenberg editor. There are more and more block plugins emerging, but this one is different.

Instead of building a plugin with 30+ blocks you have to sort your way through, we built one with only 4 blocks. The magic here is that these 4 blocks can be used to build nearly anything. When combined, you no longer need specific blocks for testimonials, price boxes or call to actions (to name a few). These blocks can do it all.

One of the things I love about this approach is that you can become super familiar with only a handful of blocks. You don’t need to memorize and rely on 10 different blocks to build a page – your pages can be built using unique combinations of these few blocks.

It also means none of our blocks will become outdated next year. The plugin will remain lightweight and clean, without a bunch of deprecated blocks well into the future.

Another aspect of the plugin we’ve focused heavily on is performance, which is no surprise if you’re coming from our GeneratePress theme. GenerateBlocks only adds one CSS file per page, which contains all of the CSS generated by your options. There is no javascript or inline CSS – it’s all in one, tidy place.

The HTML generated by the plugin is as minimal as possible, as well. You won’t find yourself digging through layers and layers of elements to find your content.

To download the current version of the plugin, head over to our Install page or search for GenerateBlocks in the plugins area of your Dashboard.

If you need help using the plugin, check out our documentation. If something is missing from the documentation, or you need more help, please don’t hesitate to contact us.