Find My Blocks – Locate blocks on your site Plugin

Find My Blocks is a WordPress plugin built to help you find specific Gutenberg blocks on your WordPress website.

🆕 Official site Find My Blocks

🔍 Fast search for block locations

Save your time by scanning your entire WordPress site (including posts, pages and custom post types) to locate instances of WordPress Blocks.

• 📍 Find & replace blocks safely with quick edit and preview links.
• 🧱 WordPress Full Site Editing support. Block Templates & Template parts will be searched.
• ⚡️ Performance settings for low (shared hosting) to high-end hosting.
• 🤝 100% free & open source.

Which blocks can be located?

Find My Blocks will batch loop through your posts (and more) to detect instances of blocks.

• WordPress Core blocks (paragraphs, images, group blocks and so on)
• Blocks added by third-party plugins (Even if they are uninstalled)
• Synced Patterns (Reusable Blocks)
• WordPress template added by your theme, or plugins such as WooCommerce.
• Conditional Blocks with custom visibility settings.

Anything missing? Let us know – our goal is to find every WordPress block.

Quickly identify block types.

• Filter found blocks by their “Block Provider”, narrowing the search results to individual plugins.
• The amount of times a specific block type has been used on your WordPress website.
• The posts/pages that a block has been used on.
• The amount of times a block has been used on a specific post/page.
• Check if the block is a “Synced Pattern (Reusable Block)”.
• Check if the block is a “Nested Block”.
• Check if the block is a “Template”.

How to get started?

Navigate to the Tools -> Find My Blocks Menu inside the WordPress Admin dashboard. You can then set your server performance, which will decide how many posts to scan at a time.

Once it’s done you’ll see all found blocks!

Resources

• Website: Read our guides and tutorials.
• GitHub: Contribute to the plugin.
• @MorganHvidt: Follow Morgan on X (Twitter).

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/find-my-blocks directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
3. Use the Tools->Find My Blocks screen to locate all of your blocks

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   Find My Blocks - Start Search

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   Find My Blocks - Searching Progress

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   Find My Blocks - Found Blocks within WordPress Content.

4.0.3

• Ready for WordPress 6.6
• Increased low performance option from 10 to 30 posts per batch.
• Updated usage of the “Performance” option to be more clear.

4.0.2

Find My Blocks now works better than ever on large sites with 10,000+ blocks found.

• Replaced LocalStorage with IndexedDB for caching found blocks between page reloads.
• Performance improvements when view more than 2000+ found blocks.
• Improved error handling.

4.0.1

• Improvement: Reliability during scan – use WP_Query pages instead total scanned posts because some posts might be skipped.

4.0.0

Major update

Hi everyone, I’ve adopted Find My Blocks and completely rebuilt the plugin. Please consider leaving a review or let me know if you run into any issues. – Morgan –

• Optimized Batch Search: Improved search performance tailored to server capabilities, works well on shared hosting.
• Smart Post Type Detection: Automatic recognition of post types using the Block Editor.
• Full Site Editing Capabilities: Search now includes Synced Patterns, Block Templates, and Template Parts.
• Detect Classic Blocks: Classic Blocks are now detectable.

UI & Experience

• Revamped Interface: A sleeker design that is consistent with the WordPress admin color scheme.
• Enhanced Block Filtering: Sort blocks by source, including core WordPress blocks and those from external plugins.
• Post Type Visibility: New indicators show clear post type identification.
• Full Site Editing Preview and Edit Links: Improved Full Site Editing with preview and edit capabilities for custom templates.

Performance and Compatibility

• Browser Caching for Scans: Browser cache utilization to reduce server load and prevent redundant searches.
• Bug Fixes and Compatibility Improvements:
  • Fixed React v18 compatibility issues.
  • Enhanced security with apiFetch from WordPress.
• Compatibility: Ensured compatibility with PHP 8.3 (minimum PHP 7.4) and WordPress 6.5 (minimum WordPress 5.0).

Security and Permissions

• Updated Access Permissions: The “edit-posts” capability is now required to use Find My Blocks.

Internationalization and Integration

• Internationalization: Added default text domain and language folder for plugin translations.
• Third-Party Integration: Compatibility with Conditional Blocks.

Clean Up and Maintenance

• Clean Uninstallation: Automatic cleanup of plugin data upon removal.

3.5.3

• Changes the icon for “# of usages in Post” for clarity

3.3.2

• Fixes the broken wp-json url
• Updates the donate link to a BuyMeACoffee Link

3.3.1

• Uses get_rest_url for the fetch url.

3.3.0

• Uses get_admin_url for the edit link to avoid redirect loops.

3.2.0

• Adds the site_url() to the fetch url.

3.1.3

• Fixes a 🐛 that was causing the plugin to not load on some sites.

3.1.0

• Allows for filtering by block name on the API endpoint. (/wp-json/find-my-blocks/blocks?name=core/button)

3.0.0

• Changes to use WordPress components and match WordPress styling
• Includes private, pending, and future status posts in main query
• Allows the ability to optionally include drafts
• Fixes a 🐛 where cards would change order for no reason

2.3.0

• Checks for nested blocks.
• Adds a tag to a card if the block is nested

2.2.0

• Hides the “core-embed” blocks with the “Hide Core Blocks” option.
• Fixes the broken link when plugin is first activated.

2.1.0

• Moves the menu item to Tools > Find My Blocks.
• Hides core blocks by default. The option to show and hide core blocks is now
  in settings.
• Settings moved from top of blocks to side on wider screens.

2.0.2

• Fixed the navigation showing ‘Found in 1 postfalse’ when only one post found

2.0.1

• Fixed a bug where the page refresh didn’t properly set the active block

2.0.0

• Moves Find My Blocks out of the Settings menu and into its own sidebar item
• Layout moved off of WordPress components to allow better testing
• On initial load, the proper first navigation will be selected as active
• When the page is refreshed, the selected block will stay active
• Allows sorting of navigation and cards
• Launches official website https://find-my-blocks.edeesims.com/

1.4.0

• Allows the editor role to use the plugin

1.3.0

• Sorts the list of the navigation alphabetically.
• Sorts the list of pages alphabetically.
• Some updates to styling to bring more inline with Gutenberg and WordPress
  core.

1.2.0

• Adds a Filter Input to allow you to filter blocks in the menu.
• Updates the style of the header to be just a little bit nicer.
• Adds a loading screen so that you are not bored waiting for the page to load.

1.1.0

• Adds a message to notify the amount of times a block has been used in a post.
• Removes some old, unused functionality.

1.0.0

• Initial Release