Reusable Blocks Extended
Extend Gutenberg Reusable Blocks feature with a complete admin panel, widgets, shortcodes and PHP functions.
4.8(39 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Reusable Blocks Extended is a WordPress blocks plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 39 reviews. It has been downloaded 108K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Downloads are down 15% this week. Top alternative: Spectra Gutenberg Blocks – Website….
4.8/539 reviews
20K+active installs
108K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
Extend Gutenberg Reusable Blocks feature with a complete admin panel, widgets, shortcodes and PHP functions.
This plugin extends the Reusable Blocks admin interface and provides few fancy features:
- Add Reusable Blocks dashboard informations
- Activate Reusable Blocks admin screen
- Provide a list of Posts where each Reusable Block is used and the date it was last modified
- Provide a live preview of your reusable blocks from the Reusable Blocks admin screen, with your theme stylesheets
- Provide a Reusable Blocks Widget to use your block anywhere you want in your theme’s widgets areas
- Provide a Reusable Blocks Shortcode to use your block anywhere you want in your Post types (even if they use the Classic Editor rather than Gutenberg!)
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Provide some Reusable Blocks PHP functions to use your block…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Makes life so much easier!
by whichgodsaves·7 months ago
Thanks for making writing so much easier with a great plugin to manage my blocks and patterns. Forgot how good it was until I did a new site without it!
Valuable addition for working with templates
by Orlandoo·7 months ago
This plugin adds practical functions to template management that should actually be available directly in WordPress. The overview of where each template has been used is worth its weight in gold.
This does the job of a $200 plugin
by Line49 Design·1 year ago
Hey everybody that wrote to this forum and complained about something not working with this free plugin:
You can get the Gutenberg Block as a Shortcode function by using WP Code Pro. It works great and is highly supported. But the price is USD$100/yr for a single website, or $250/yr for 25 sites (prices upon yearly renewal).
The whole reason I found this plugin is that WP Code Pro is expensive, and there is no LTD.
After a fairly thorough search, I have found zero other options besides these two plugins: one home-made and one commercial. So if you don’t want to pay the premium price for the commercial plugin, then there’s no point complaining about the homemade one.
Lack Of Support
by mjmurphy53711·1 year ago
Previously a 5 star review, the last year problems creeping in and it’s obvious to me that the developer refuses to participate in this support forum. Kick them out of the respository until they are responsive.
Note to developer, previously would have happily purchased a pro version of this plugin (which you don’t seem to offer) in order to support you and get access to support.
Awesome
by robertorefresh·2 years ago
simple and usefull. I’m using it in every website
- This topic was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by robertorefresh.
Download Trends
Today: 32Yesterday: 39This week: 190Period total: 16K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v0.9
98.2%
Other
1.8%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
0.9.1
- Security fixes. Props to Rio Darmawan and Darius S., via Patchstack Alliance ♥️
Contributors
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