Block Navigation sidebar panel for the new Block editor.
As of April 2026, Block Navigation is a WordPress blocks plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 33 reviews. It has been downloaded 61K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.8+ and PHP 7.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 7% this week. Top alternative: Spectra Gutenberg Blocks – Website….
Demo – Documentation – GitHub
Block Navigation provides a sidebar with the current post/page’s blocks and some tools to facilitate the editing process in the new Gutenberg editor.
The features are especially useful for nested blocks – blocks that are inside parent blocks which are difficult to select or move in the editor.
Inside the panel several utilities are included to enhance the UX, such as:
The user can select a dark or light color scheme, from the multiple included.
The plugin also provides some features for Plugin and Theme developers, such as:
I use this with all of my wordpress installations. It’s so super useful.
Thanks a lot for providing this.
Hopefully it will work also with the newer wp-versions – I’ll try.
Thank you very much for the plugin. Default list view makes me crazy especially the “Move to”.
I wonder why this is not built-in.
A great little plugin that improves greatly block navigation and, super important, blocks movement. Put a block into another block precisely is so important.
This is one of the best Gutenberg Builder Add-ons I’ve seen so far.
Great tool that compensates the lack of an block overview feature in the Gutenberg Builder itself. Hope this will become part of Gutenberg sooner or later.
I learned about this from the Kadence WP tutorial on YouTube. They need to make a Pro version of this plugin so I can buy it! I absolutely love it, and it’s smooth. I just downloaded it and it works amazingly so far. So glad you made this plugin, and I can’t believe it’s free! Gutenburg needed something like this badly! Thanks!
| WordPress | 5.8+ requiredTested up to 6.0.11 |
| PHP | 7.1+ required |
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