WP Blockade – Visual Page Builder Plugin

Blockade is in public beta. There may be frequent releases and features may change as we work towards releasing version 1.0. Please let us know about your experience, so we can make Blockade even better.

Blockade will change the way you look at designing and building for the web

Page builders are usually overbuilt and hard to learn to use effectively. Blockade turns that trend on its head, and provides a lightweight page builder that integrates directly into your site’s existing interface. With Blockade, you can build beautiful, professional, and standards-compliant responsive layouts, in seconds.

Want to know the best part? Your layout is built in clean, easy to edit HTML5, with the popular Bootstrap framework. Need to make a change beyond what the interface allows? Simply switch to text mode and edit the HTML directly.

Built for real designers with real clients

Real clients have sites with custom metaboxes, shortcodes, widgets, and theme options built into their editors. Most page builders ignore those crucial controls, and focus on building a new interface, just for their custom experience. They aren’t good at being a tool that adds to an existing workflow.

We built Blockade to give our clients the WordPress experience they deserve. It cut its teeth on the real problems users face with designing and editing, and working with common plugins like ACF and Slider Revolution. It has revolutionized editing for our team and our clients.

Now we’re ready to revolutionize editing for everyone else.

Learn more at https://www.wpblockade.com

Blockade Features

• Content Blocks: HTML, Photo, Video, Button, Text & Map
• Structure Blocks: Simple Columns, Groups, and Full-Width Breakouts
• Lightweight, semantic markup for maximum performance and accessibility
• Easy background controls
• Mobile-friendly, responsive layouts
• Add your own CSS classes and IDs
• Embed shortcodes as usual
• Works with Pages, Posts, and Custom Post Types
• Flexible API for custom addon development

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/plugin-name directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
3. Voila! You’re ready to start building your first visual Pages

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   Blockade has a simple menu-driven interface

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   Choosing the background options for a Block is easy as pie

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   You can even live preview your page, without ever leaving the WordPress editor

Installation Instructions

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/plugin-name directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
3. Voila! You’re ready to start building your first visual Pages

Why should I choose Blockade, over other visual page builders?

Blockade is lightweight and flexible, and integrates well with existing themes. It can even use your own version of Bootstrap, to make page loads as fast as possible.

Do I need to know HTML or CSS to use Blockade?

Not at all! Blockade is a true visual editor, with all options controllable in a simple drag and drop interface.

See more frequently asked questions

https://www.wpblockade.com/frequently-asked-questions/

0.9.14 (04/24/2018)

• Move blocks with arrow control as well as drag/drop
• Improved drag/drop interface
• Tightened up UI
• Fixed bug with shortcode block rendering duplicates

0.9.13 (04/10/2018)

• Added new “Add Block Here” control
• Blocks visually highlight and scroll into view, when added

0.9.12 (02/27/2018)

• Add support for passing data to blockade addons from PHP
• Add support for Bootstrap 4 Beta and Bootstrap 4

0.9.11 (01/22/2018)

• Improve data encoding for JSON stored in HTML attributes

0.9.10 (01/11/2018)

• Whitelist blockade html for restricted user roles
• Improve post excerpts

0.9.9 (11/28/2017)

• Fix for pasting issue in embedded blockade editors

0.9.8 (10/27/2017)

• Fix to buttons without an icon
• Fix for missing widgets block
• Many style improvements
• Fix for cut/paste issues
• New border controls on all blocks

0.9.7 (10/27/2017)

• Fix to buttons without an icon
• Fix for missing widgets block
• Many style improvements
• Fix for cut/paste issues
• New border controls on all blocks

0.9.6 (06/12/2017)

• Many fixes to block-level links
• Restore List Controls after 4.7 enforces using the lists TinyMCE plugin

0.9.5 (05/10/2017)

• Fix Bootstrap 3 columns getting bootstrap 4 classes (continued)
• Fix WP-CLI warning
• Fix disappearing sidebar widget
• Versioning TinyMCE resources
• Add support for block-level links

0.9.4 (03/27/2017)

• Add Preview at Size options for responsive editing
• Fix Glyphicon Rendering in Bootstrap 4
• Fix Bootstrap 3 columns getting bootstrap 4 classes

0.9.3 (03/20/2017)

• bug fixes in shortcode and column blocks

0.9.2 (03/19/2017)

• Added Experimental Live Sidebar Block
• Added Experimental Live Shortcode Block
• Added New Sidebar Columns
• Added Optional Support for Bootstrap 4 alpha
• Added filter to remove Bootstrap
  (Note: Some Block Types will not function without Bootstrap, and will need to be replaced)

0.9.1 (01/20/2017)

• Added support for image sizes
• fixed bug with initial transformation to blockade compatible

0.9.0 (01/14/2017)

• First public beta release