Active installations10K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.9 / 5 from 80 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records Content Blocks (Custom Post Widget) version 3.4.4 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
The Content Blocks allows you to display the contents of a custom post type in a sidebar widget or using a shortcode.
Even though you could use the text widget that comes with the default WordPress install, this plugin has some major benefits:
The Content Blocks plugin enables users to use the WYSIWYG editor for editing the content and adding images.
If you are using the standard WordPress text widgets to display content on various areas of your template, this content can only be edited by users with administrator access. If you would like to give content editors access without exposing them to the whole WordPress admin, this plugin solves that problem.
You can even use the featured image functionality to display them in a widget.
The Content Blocks plugin is compatible with the WPML Multi-Language plugin and automatically shows the correct language in the widget area.
The Content Blocks can be included in posts and pages using the built-in shortcode functionality.
This plugin creates a ‘content_block’ custom post type. You can choose to either display the title on the page or use it to describe the contents and widget position of the content block. Note that you can easily hide the title if you want a cleaner layout.
To add content to a widget, drag it to the required position in the sidebar and select the title of the custom post in the widget configuration.
Includes the following translations:
Swedish (sv_SE) by Andreas Larsson
Spanish (es_ES) by IBIDEM GROUP
Portuguese (pt_BR) by Ronaldo Chevalier
Polish (pl_PL) by Kuba Skublicki
Dutch (nl_NL) by Johan van der Wijk
Czech (cs_CZ) by Martin Kucera
More translations are very welcome!
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
content block
custom post
shortcode
widget
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.6 · PHP not listed
Update activity21 Sept 20261mo ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
Version3.4.3→3.4.4
WordPress compatibility7.0.4→7.1.1
Tracking & source
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