Editor Block Outline
Add outline around Gutenberg blocks while editing
4.9(21 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, Editor Block Outline is a WordPress blocks plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 21 reviews. It has been downloaded 31K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are up 16% this week. Top alternative: Spectra Gutenberg Blocks – Website….
4.9/521 reviews
1.0K+active installs
31K+total downloads
6 yearssince 2020
Overview
This a Gutenberg plugin that adds an outline around each block. Outline settings are based on user meta. Each user can
change the settings according to their needs and it will applied only to their account.
Users can change:
- When to show outline. On hover or always displayed.
- Lock outline for a single block.
- Disable outline completely.
- Show data (name and class) outside block, inside or floating when hovering over block
- Change outline color.
- Change outline style to solid, dashed or dotted line
- Change padding size
- Show/hide block name
Filters
- editor_outline_default_user_meta
You can override the default user meta by using this filter. The filter will receive the default user meta as an array and
you can return a modified array.
Check github repo for more information. https://github.com/…
Screenshots
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Great plugin – should be part of wp core
by rcain·1 year ago
Absolutely great plugin. You seem to have thought of everything. Makes Gutenberg/block editor actually usable. Should be part of wp core. Thanks for your great work 🙂
This should have been baked in from the start!
·1 year ago
I was never ready to make the jump to Gutenberg but I had to do it sooner or later. Coming from (leaving?) Elementor with it’s nice interface, it’s a brutal contrast and I have never understood why they made it so empty and counter-intuitive. Your plugin will make my transition much less painful so thanks for the great work! I have actually tried a few of these plugins but you really raised the bar and has some great extra features.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by mgjaltema.
Nice visual tool but…
by revixi5·2 years ago
Works great with latest version of WP 6.4.3. The only issue is that it disable a native function (from the browser of WordPress) that when you select multiple blocks they become highlighted. When that plugin is enable, you don’t see that anymore and it’s difficult to see which blocks are selected. So it’s a plugin that help to better see the limits of the blocks but makes you blind with other things… (I’m on Mac with Firefox).
Simple and just a very helpfull plugin
by Chrilles·2 years ago
I use this on all my WP installs, and it just makes editing blocks so much easier. Never had an issue with this plugin.
Thank you.
This should be a standard feature
by rock5861·2 years ago
Excellent!
Download Trends
Today: 5Yesterday: 25This week: 128Period total: 6K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.4
84.8%
v1.3
10.1%
Other
5.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.4.3
- Update to make it compatible with WordPress 6.9
Contributors
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