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Magic Block

by willdelphia

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Description

Magic Block registers a container block with the block editor. This block has settings for element (div, section, etc), ID, classname, inline style, and any other attribute (including data-*, and aria-*) via a custom attributes section.

Magic Block is designed for people who want full control over post HTML structure, or wish to use the editor to create complex layouts such as Flexbox, CSS Grid, Bootstrap, etc…

This block does not add any CSS styles that you, as a developer, do not provide. Rather, it allows you to easily contain other blocks in parent elements with an arbitrary ID or Class. You may then easily target these container elements by ID or Class in your theme’s stylesheets or through CSS plugins. For smaller customizations there is an inline style field which maps to the “style” HTML attribute for the container element.

In the editor view, each Magic Block has a thin grey outline so you can easily see which child elements belong to it. It also provides a display of element type, ID, and classes so you can keep track of how to target them with your CSS.

As of WordPress 5.3 you might not need this plugin since the core now ships with a “Group Block” which is similar in purpose, although it has fewer options.

  1. You can nest magic blocks inside each other to build complex layouts.

    You can nest magic blocks inside each other to build complex layouts.

  2. Custom attributes supported

    Custom attributes supported

please, don't abandon this excellent plugin

By wrumwrum on May 11, 2022

you said, that as we have a group block now, we might don't need to use this plugin. Unfortunately group block stinks, it ads some inner divs which makes it unusable for a lot of stuff, for example grid or flex container. Your plugin is just perfect. It should be THE FIRST Gutenberg block to be released, it's such a timesaver and pleasure to work with. I can pay for this, but please, don't abandon it.

Excellent plugin

By (cristobal barrientos) on October 24, 2021

Wonderful plugin, just hope this project keeps updated! thank you so much!

Magia blanca

By Francisco (fmarconi) on September 13, 2021

White Magic, This should be in the very core of Gutenberg. I used it to implement Keen Slider Because there’s no way to get rid of the additional annoying nested wrappers in default columns or groups blocks.

How did I ever create websites without this!

By trishahdee on June 26, 2021

I am so very happy you created this wonderful tool! It is so needed for anyone who is tired of creating custom templates for pages. Thank you!

Good !!!

By jcasalsd on June 18, 2021

Keep going !!! Congratulations

Absolutely Perfect!

By xenolito on May 26, 2021

This plugin is just perfect for a full control of gutenberg's based layouts. It just fills a very important functionality that gutenberg lacks and it should come built in with WordPress. Great job.

Truly a magic thing

By sayhellostranger on December 11, 2019

Everything you need to do everything. Very clean. Works great.Thanx!

Awesome plugin

By utilizednoodle on October 3, 2019

This is the only plugin I can find that allows inline stylings. I needed this in order to use tcpdf with my website. Awesome plugin! Thank you so much.

EXACTLY what I needed for my project! Just magic!

By emelie91 on September 30, 2019

This plug-in is just perfect! It is exactly what I needed for my WordPress theme project. Simple yet very powerful. Not a lot of unnecessary blocks you don't want / need, only container blocks are provided. It does exactly what it says in the description. Gives you full control of layout by providing container blocks that you can style according to your wishes in your stylesheet. You can create several different types of container blocks since you can choose which tag should act as the container. For example, the standard container block is a <div> but if you wish you can change that to a <section> or an <aside> (or some other tag) or even better, for example you can have both a <section> and an <aside> container (or some other tag). So happy with this plug-in! 5 out of 5 stars!

Exactly what I was looking for

By chakmear on April 12, 2019

Finally something simple for programmers to make Gutenberg useable! Works like a charme... Only usability can be optimized, for example in backend adding some backgroundcolors for better differentiating the nesting levels when you have nested in several levels... and when adding new block there is always an empty block which I don't need when I move existing blocks into the div/section... but that might be default WP behaviour, I have to type some letters and delete the block then... But for the first: Awesome addon 😉 Thanks for development.
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