Convert to Blocks Plugin

Convert to Blocks is a WordPress plugin that transforms classic editor content to blocks on-the-fly. After installing Gutenberg or upgrading to WordPress 5.0+, your content will be displayed in “Classic Editor Blocks”. While these blocks are completely functional and will display fine on the frontend of your website, they do not empower editors to fully make use of the block editing experience. In order to do so, your classic editor posts need to be converted to blocks. This plugin does that for you “on the fly”. When an editor goes to edit a classic post, the content will be parsed into blocks. When the editor saves the post, the new structure will be saved into the database. This strategy reduces risk as you are only altering database values for content that needs to be changed.

Note that Inner Blocks Transforms is only supported with the Gutenberg Plugin 10.9.0+.

Manual Installation

1. Upload the entire /convert-to-blocks directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate Convert to Blocks through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

1. 

   Bulk migration using the wp convert-to-blocks start WP-CLI command that converts posts iteratively in the browser without requireing any manual input.

1.3.0 – 2024-05-14

• Added: Block Catalog integration, and pagination support (props @dsawardekar, @iamdharmesh via #164).
• Changed: Adjust enable_block_editor method only to alter posts that support the gutenbridge (props @stormrockwell, @Sidsector9, @jeffpaul, @dsawardekar via #136).
• Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.5 (props @QAharshalkadu, @jeffpaul, @Sidsector9, @sudip-md, @dkotter via #146, #161).
• Changed: Replaced lee-dohm/no-response with actions/stale to help with closing no-response/stale issues (props @jeffpaul via #159).
• Changed: Bump Node version from 16 to 20 (props @aaronjorbin, @Sidsector9, @dkotter via #160).
• Changed: Bump actions/upload-artifact from v3 to v4 (props @iamdharmesh via #162).
• Security: Bump follow-redirects from 1.15.2 to 1.15.4 (props @dependabot, @dkotter via #153).
• Security: Bump browserify-sign from 4.0.4 to 4.2.2 (props @dependabot, @dkotter via #145).
• Security: Bump @babel/traverse from 7.11.5 to 7.23.7 (props @dependabot, @dkotter via #155).
• Security: Remove old dependencies in favor of using @wordpress/scripts in our build workflow (props @Sidsector9, @dkotter via #167).

1.2.2 – 2023-10-16

• Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version to 6.3 (props @kmgalanakis, @faisal-alvi, @jeffpaul, @peterwilsoncc via #132, #134
• Security: Bump @cypress/request from 2.88.11 to 3.0.1 and cypress from 10.11.0 to 13.3.0 (props @dependabot, @iamdharmesh, @ravinderk via #138).
• Security: Bump postcss from 8.4.20 to 8.4.31 (props @dependabot, @dkotter via #139).
• Security: Bump fsevents from 1.2.9 to 1.2.13 (props @dependabot, @ravinderk via #140).

1.2.1 – 2023-07-26

• Added: More robust minimum PHP version check (props @dkotter, @ravinderk via #129).
• Changed: Bump minimum required PHP version from 7.4 to 8.0 in our composer.json config (props @c0ntax, @Sidsector9 via #122).
• Fixed: Parse error caused by a comma (props @Sidsector9, @iamdharmesh, @ravinderk, @felipeelia via #123).
• Security: Bump minimist from 1.2.0 to 1.2.7 and mkdirp from 0.5.1 to 0.5.6 (props @dependabot via #117).
• Security: Bump ini from 1.3.5 to 1.3.8 (props @dependabot via #119).
• Security: Bump browser-sync from 2.27.10 to 2.29.3 and removes qs (props @dependabot via #120).
• Security: Bump word-wrap from 1.2.3 to 1.2.5 (props @dependabot via #127).

1.2.0 – 2023-06-27

Note that this release bumps the WordPress minimum version from 5.7 to 6.1 and the PHP minimum version from 7.4 to 8.0.

• Added: Settings UI for managing supported post types (props @akshitsethi, @dinhtungdu, @Sidsector9, @jayedul, @dsawardekar, @terrance-orletsky-d7, @ouun via #66, #104, #112, #114).
• Added: Filter hook convert_to_blocks_update_posts_query_params to modify WP_Query parameters to query posts that need to be migrated (props @kmgalanakis, @Sidsector9, @sanketio via #113).
• Added: Cypress end-to-end tests (props @barneyjeffries, @jeffpaul, @iamdharmesh, @Sidsector9, @vikrampm1 via #106).
• Changed: Bump PHP minimum supported version from 7.4 to 8.0 (props @barneyjeffries, @jeffpaul, @iamdharmesh, @Sidsector9, @vikrampm1 via #106).
• Changed: Bump WordPress minimum supported version from 5.7 to 6.1 (props @barneyjeffries, @jeffpaul, @iamdharmesh, @Sidsector9, @vikrampm1 via #106).
• Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.2 (props @Sidsector9 via #115).
• Changed: Updated the Dependency Review GitHub Action (props @jeffpaul via #109).
• Changed: WordPress.org Deploy action updated to use Node 16 (props @dkotter via #116).

1.1.1 – 2023-01-05

Note that this version bumps the minimum PHP version from 7.0 to 7.4 and the minimum WordPress version from 5.4 to 5.7.

• Added: Bulk migration demo to readme (props @jeffpaul, @dsawardekar via #79).
• Added: Release build GitHub Action to build a release zip used for testing (props @dkotter via #98).
• Changed: Bump WordPress minimum version from 5.4 to 5.7 and PHP minimum version from 7.0 to 7.4 (props @zamanq, @jeffpaul, @faisal-alvi, @mehul0810 via #80).
• Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version to 6.1 props @peterwilsoncc, @faisal-alvi, @cadic via #88, #91).
• Removed:is-svg as it is no longer used after updating ancestor dependency postcss-svgo (props @dependabot via #85).
• Fixed: WP-CLI helptext that is causing an unknown parameter error (props @dsawardekar, @jeffpaul, @norcross via #78).
• Security: Bump socket.io-parser from 3.2.0 to 4.2.1 and browser-sync from 2.26.7 to 2.27.10 (props @dependabot via #81).
• Security: Bump minimatch from 3.0.4 to 3.1.2 (props @dependabot via #82).
• Security: Bump nth-check from 1.0.2 to 2.1.1 and cssnano from 4.1.10 to 5.1.14 (props @dependabot via #84).
• Security: Bump postcss-svgo from 4.0.2 to 4.0.3 (props @dependabot via #85).
• Security: Bump minimist from 1.2.0 to 1.2.7 and mkdirp from 0.5.1 to 0.5.6 (props @dependabot via #86).
• Security: Bump loader-utils from 1.2.3 to 1.4.2 and webpack-cli from 3.3.10 to 3.3.12 (props @dependabot via #89).
• Security: Bump glob-parent from 5.1.0 to 5.1.2 and watchpack from 1.6.0 to 1.7.5 (props @dependabot via #90).
• Security: Bump kind-of from 6.0.2 to 6.0.3 (props @dependabot via #93).
• Security: Bump serialize-javascript from 2.1.2 to 4.0.0 and terser-webpack-plugin from 1.4.3 to 1.4.5 (props @dependabot via #94).
• Security: Bump engine.io from 6.2.0 to 6.2.1 (props @dependabot via #95).
• Security: Bump decode-uri-component from 0.2.0 to 0.2.2 (props @dependabot via #97).

View historical changelog details here.