BlockSpare — News, Magazine and Blog Addons for (Gutenberg) Block Editor
Highly customizable Gutenberg blocks and starter templates to build blogs, magazines, and business websites. Create post grids, sliders, filters, and …
4.9(30 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 3 days agoAs of April 2026, BlockSpare is a WordPress blog plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 30 reviews. It has been downloaded 834K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP 5.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 88% this week. Top alternative: SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle.
4.9/530 reviews
10K+active installs
834K+total downloads
6 yearssince 2020
Overview
Building a professional blog, news, magazine, or business website often requires a lot of time spent on layouts, post presentation, responsiveness, and design consistency. Many users want polished results without writing custom code or assembling everything from scratch.
BlockSpare helps you build faster by providing a growing library of ready-to-use Gutenberg blocks, patterns, and starter templates — designed specifically for content-rich and business websites.
The BlockSpare approach
Instead of starting with a blank editor, BlockSpare lets you start with structured, production-ready layouts that you can customize visually using the WordPress Block Editor.
BlockSpare focuses on:
✅ Practical layouts for real websites
✅ Flexible post display and filtering
✅ Reusable patterns and templates
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Ratings & Reviews
4.930 reviews
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Recent Reviews
It is very easy and great
by mamunphf·2 weeks ago·1 reply
It is very easy and great
- This topic was modified 2 weeks, 6 days ago by mamunphf.
Good piece of software anyday!
by datemeprince·9 months ago·1 reply
As a journalist building news blog and website, i strongly recommend this plugin. My 5star rating granted with a thumbs up
GREAT!!!!!
by nealmann·10 months ago·1 reply
This is a great plugin.
Ótimo design
by novoportal·1 year ago·3 replies
Usuário satisfeito
- This topic was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by novoportal.
still trying to figure it all out
by raoulbtc·1 year ago·1 reply
i feel like i’ve written this review 3 times already
Download Trends
Today: 2KYesterday: 6KThis week: 12KPeriod total: 278K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.3+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.3
58.2%
v3.2
30.6%
Other
11.2%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.3.0
- Update: Multiple accessibility improvements across blocks (pricing table, price list, icon list, progress bar, content box, CTA, accordion, buttons, date & time, social share, slider buttons).
- Update: Added missing alt tags, aria-hidden attributes, and aria-labels for improved screen reader compatibility.
- Update: Improved color contrast and fixed minor accessibility errors.
- Update: Added sprintf usage and fixed text-domain issues.
- Update: Added register_block_type for all blocks and introduced new block category.
…and 8 more changes
Contributors
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