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Block Navigation

Block Navigation sidebar panel for the new Block editor.

By Alvaro·Blocks·Free
5(33 reviews)
·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 years ago
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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….

5/533 reviews
3.0K+active installs
61K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018

Overview

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.

Features

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:

  • Dragging blocks to a different location
  • Moving blocks by click
  • Selecting blocks
  • Easily recognising the block from a small snippet of the block’s content

The user can select a dark or light color scheme, from the multiple included.

Plugin and Theme developers

The plugin also provides some features for Plugin and Theme developers, such as:

  • Click and Copy the block’s clientI…
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Ratings & Reviews

533 reviews
5 ★
33
4 ★
0
3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
0

Recent Reviews

essential – thank you!
by anja·4 months ago

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.

Life Saver
by Izandi·3 years ago

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.

So handy
by Li-An·3 years ago

A great little plugin that improves greatly block navigation and, super important, blocks movement. Put a block into another block precisely is so important.

exactly what I needed
by Stempelschneider·4 years ago

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.

Amazing Plugin and So Useful!
by stevenorlosky·4 years ago

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!

Download Trends

Today: 4Yesterday: 9This week: 32Period total: 2K

Compatibility

WordPress5.8+ requiredTested up to 6.0.11
PHP7.1+ required

Version Adoption

v4.1
95.8%
Other
4.2%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

4.1.1

  • Fixed incompatibility with some custom blocks
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

AlvaroAlvaro
Plugin Info
Version
4.1.1
Last Updated
May 19, 2022
WP Requires
5.8+
Tested Up To
6.0.11
PHP Requires
7.1+
Active Installs
3.0K+
Downloads
61K+
Added
Nov 1, 2018
Business
Free

Tags

blockseditorgutenbergnavigationdrag-and-drop

Developer

A
Alvaro
11 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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