Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates

July 18, 2024

Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates Plugin

The Essential Blocks Library for WordPress Gutenberg Editor.

Bring your creative visions to life with Essential Blocks for Gutenberg, the ultimate blocks library for WordPress!
Enhance your Gutenberg experience with 50+ unique blocks (more coming soon). 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.

DESIGN OUTSTANDING WEB PAGES WITH ADVANCED GUTENBERG BLOCKS LIBRARY!

See It In Action: Check out all the interactive block demos in one place.

✨ COMPLETELY CUSTOMIZABLE

Each block comes with a bunch of options to control every possible aspect of your website design. You can design your page with endless customization options using this amazing Gutenberg blocks plugin.

🌐 BLOCKS GLOBAL CONTROL, COLORS & TYPOGRAPHY

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.

⚡ LIGHT WEIGHT & INSTANT LOADING

No extra resources or messy codes to slow down your website. Optimized for super fast loading and instant live editing.

⚙️ BLOCKS MODULAR CONTROL

Enable and disable individual blocks to make your page load faster and smoother. You can deactivate unnecessary blocks to keep the site lightweight.

🚀 ASSET REGENERATION

Keep your website’s loading speed fast and secure against heavy scripts and CSS files with the Asset Regeneration feature.

🖊️ COMPATIBILITY WITH GOOGLE FONTS

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 typographies.

💻 RESPONSIVE ON ALL DEVICES

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.

💫 ADVANCED ANIMATION FEATURE

With our latest exclusive feature, animation, you can design every block with a stunning animated appearance. Grab users’ attention instantly with eye-catching animations, transitions, and many more.

⚡ DYNAMIC TAGS & ACF SUPPORT (PRO)

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.

🖼️ READY GUTENBERG BLOCK PATTERNS

Get stunningly designed, ready-to-use 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.

🎯 STUNNING GUTENBERG TEMPLATES

Explore and get access to 2,000+ ready Gutenberg templates from Templately that were created using the default block editor and Essential Blocks. You can easily customize the fully responsive templates just the way you want, upload the designs to the Templately cloud solution to use again later, and collaborate with your team with ease.

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 & CryptoCurrency
– Non-profit
– Portfolio & Consultancy
– Technology
– Travel… and many more.

👨‍💻 EXPERT SUPPORT

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.

50+ FREE & ADVANCED BLOCKS AND COUNTING

Design without limits in WordPress block editor, using 50+ of the most useful Essential Blocks for Gutenberg.

Accordion – Add beautiful accordions in your pages, posts, anywhere & reduce scrolling
Button – Quickly add modern buttons with hover effect in your post or page
Call To Action – Design call-to-action buttons quicker than a blink
Countdown – Include a countdown timer to boost your click-through rates
Flipbox – Use animated Flip Boxes to highlight any content inside your page in a great way
Infobox – Design a beautiful info box from predefined styles
Notice – Inform your users with specific Notice information and let them stay well aware of what’s important
Pricing Table – Create Pricing Tables within minutes that convert
Social Icons – Let them share your content with different social media platforms
Team Member – Feature your team members with a few clicks
Testimonial – Showcase what others said about your brand & Increase Your Credibility
Progress Bar – Display how far the specific task or still is in the process
Interactive Promo – Showcase your content heading in an amazing way
Image Comparison – Let your viewers compare two images interactively
Wrapper – Place any block within the wrapper and style the wrapper
Instagram Feed – Display your Instagram posts beautifully
Image Gallery – Show your image gallery with a beautiful grid and lightbox
Advanced Heading – Advanced Heading block with lots of customization options
Dual Button – Show dual button with nice text or icon separator
Parallax Slider – Create a fancy slider to showcase your team or any image gallery
Typing Text – Design your page using Typing text with an eye-catching typing effect
Toggle Content – Switch content or blocks with a beautiful switcher
Number Counter – Put the spotlight on important statistics to attract visitors
Row – Create complex Row layouts with plenty of styling controls & responsive options
Post grid – Create a stunning and interactive visualization for your blogs in a grid layout with Post Grid block
Table of Contents – Insert Table of Contents (TOC) on your posts/pages and enhance user experience on your WordPress website
Feature List – Display information interactively with the feature list
Slider – Display all your beautiful images in the slider with motion effects and dazzle your audiences
Advanced Tab – Display nested tabs to display key information on an instance in an interactive manner
Fluent Forms – Design your Forms container and fields and choose your preferred form layout to style Fluent Forms
Advanced Image – Customize images in Gutenberg to fit your exact needs
WPForms – Design stunning WPForms in minutes with plenty of controls & styling options
Woo Product Grid – Display WooCommerce products with stunning layouts, buttons, tags, ratings, and more
Post Carousel – Showcase your posts creatively with an animated, dynamic carousel
Advanced Video – Add extra styling and unique customization to your videos and amaze site visitors
Advanced Navigation – Display pages & posts with easy navigation on your website with a stunning & organized appearance
Popup – Showcase your videos, images, or other content with popup & trigger actions
NFT Gallery – Display your NFT items & collections in a stunning gallery view without any coding
Social Share – Share your posts & pages instantly on popular social platforms in one click from your website
Openverse – Easily search & use royalty free images, stock photos, etc CC-licensed images from Openverse for your website
Google Maps – Present a fully responsive map on your website with your preferred configurations, styles, etc.
Shape Divider – Make your website designs stand out by showcasing different sections with stunning shape dividers
Form – Create responsive forms of any type – contact forms, RSVP forms, or subscription forms – in Gutenberg and manage easily them from your WordPress dashboard
Timeline Slider (PRO) – Showcase your posts & pages in an attractive timeline slider and design with stunning presets & styling options
Advanced Search (PRO) – Let visitors find any content on your website easily with a customizable, dynamic search bar
Data Table (PRO) – Insert an advanced data table on your website without any code and display information in an eye-catching way
Woo Product Carousel (PRO) – Display your WooCommerce products with dynamic Product Carousels and designs using limitless styling options
News Ticker (PRO) – Show the latest news or highlights on your website with a dynamic ticker in an engaging way that instantly drives attention
Fancy Chart (PRO) – Design visually stunning & interactive charts to bring life to dull datasets
Multicolumn Pricing Table (PRO) – Use a variety of layouts to impact your customers to choose the pricing best plan by showcasing comparison table by mentioning features, displaying icons, and so on
Stacked Cards (PRO) – Display your content in a unique style with the EB Stacked Cards block. With this block, you can easily make your stacked cards sticky in place and provide users an interactive experience when they scroll through your website
Testimonial Slider (PRO) – Display engaging and credible customer testimonials, reviews and ratings in a sleek slider format to build trust and encourage conversions
Offcanvas (PRO) – Showcase a sidebar menu on your Gutenberg site using the Offcanvas block and grab visitors’ attention with various stunning transitions & effects

More blocks and demos coming soon (weekly update)

📄 SUPPORT & DOCUMENTATION

If you have any more questions, visit our support on the Plugin’s Forum.
Find out how to use each Gutenberg block with our detailed documentation.
For information about our features, FAQs and more, check out our website at Essential Blocks for Gutenberg.

🏆 GET ACCESS TO QUICK & EASY TUTORIALS

Learn from our video tutorials available on our Youtube Channel.

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CONTRIBUTE

The full source code is available on GitHub Repository. Feel free to contribute or report an issue.

🔥 WHAT’S NEXT?

If you like Essential Blocks, then consider checking out our other WordPress Plugins:

🎨 Templately – Ultimate templates cloud for WordPress with hundreds of ready Gutenberg website layout designs and unique cloud collaboration features.

🔔 NotificationX– Best social proof & FOMO marketing solution to boost conversions & designing stunning WordPress notification bars.

🗒️ BetterDocs – Best 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 WordPress solution for embedding videos, images, posts, audio, maps and PDF, DOC, PPT & all other types of content into your website using Gutenberg.

🔗 BetterLinks – Advanced WordPress link management plugin for link shortening, tracking & analyzing with Instant Redirect for Gutenberg.

Installation

Note: Since Essential Blocks is a Gutenberg library, you must activate Gutenberg editor to use it.

Go to your WordPress Dashboard and navigate to wp-admin -> Plugins -> Add New. Search for Essential Blocks for Gutenberg. Then simply click on the Install Now button.
Now click on Activate button to activate the plugin.
That’s it. You can access all blocks easily from Gutenberg editor.

Or,

You can download the plugin by clicking the Download button from Essential Blocks for Gutenberg
Then go to wp-admin -> Plugins -> Add New and click on the Upload Plugin.
The plugin will be instantly installed & activated on your website.
For more detailed instructions, visit Essential Blocks Installation Guideline. Also, check out a quick video tutorial from Essential Blocks YouTube.

Screenshots

FAQ

How to insert blocks of Essential Blocks in your page or post?

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.

How to save a block as a reusable block?

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.

What themes do Essential Blocks For Gutenberg support?

Essential Blocks for Gutenberg has no theme dependency. This Gutenberg blocks plugin is compatible with any updated WordPress theme.

Will Essential Blocks slow down my website speed?

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 individual block. We have also used optimized codes for this plugin which helps to load only the resources that are currently used.

I do not know how to code. Can I still use Essential Blocks?

Yes, you can still use Essential Blocks. These Gutenberg blocks are created in such a way that you can use them and customize them without code.

What other page builders can I use with this plugin?

You can only use Essential Blocks with the Gutenberg editor. It does not support any other website builder or editor.

Is Essential Blocks Responsive for Smaller Devices?

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.

What is the best way to check for plugin conflicts on my website?

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.

How to apply custom CSS to my blocks?

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.

How can I get ready templates for Essential Blocks?

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.

Can I get ready Gutenberg patterns from Essential Blocks?

Yes, Essential Blocks provides you with a ready, professionally designed Gutenberg pattern.

Does Essential Blocks has any plugin dependency?

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.

Does Essential Blocks provide any WooCommerce blocks for Gutenberg?

Yes, you can effortlessly display your WooCommerce products on your store website using Woo Product Grid Block from Essential Blocks. More blocks are coming soon.

What should I do to use an earlier version of Essential Blocks?

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.

Changelog

4.8.2 – 11/07/2024

Fixed: Resolved an error in the editor for WordPress 6.6
Minor bug fixes & improvements

4.8.1 – 11/07/2024

Fixed: Slider || URL not working
Fixed: Popup || Add ‘VH’ unit in height control
Fixed: Custom CSS editor not working in RTL

4.8.0 – 11/07/2024

Added: Translation compatibility with WPML
Fixed: Advanced Tabs | Tab Sorting and Deletion not working properly
Minor bug fixes & improvements

4.7.4 – 02/07/2024

Improved: Advanced Tab | Added option to disable min height for vertical layout
Improved: Advanced Tab | Added option for responsive layout switch on vertical layout
Fixed: Advanced Tabs | Active tab icon color not working
Fixed: Team Member | Images removed on attempt recovery issue
Fixed: Removed Edit HTML option for Advanced Tabs and Accordion Block to prevent attempt recovery
Fixed: EB Dashboard | Blocks enable/disable reset on plugin update

4.7.3 – 24/06/2024

Improved: Custom CSS Editor better performance
Fixed: Dual Button | HTML Tag not working properly
Minor bug fixes & improvements

4.7.2 – 12/06/2024

Fixed: Animation Delay Option not working for blocks
Fixed: Column Block | responsive not working properly
Fixed: Column Block | animation not working properly
Fixed: Responsive control not working properly for all blocks
Minor bug fixes & improvements

See changelog for all versions.