Blocks are the components for adding content in the new WordPress block editor. There are many different block types available for you to use. We will be adding to this documentation soon, but for now, here is a list of the blocks that are available.
The main WordPress Editor document has information about how to add blocks.
Common Blocks
Formatting
Layout Elements
- Page Break
- Spacer
- Buttons (new 5.4)
- Button (deprecated)
- Columns
- Group
- Media & Text
- More
- Reusable block
- Separator
Theme Blocks
- Navigation (new in 5.9)
- Template Part (new in 5.9)
- Site Logo (new in 5.8)
- Site Tagline (new in 5.8)
- Site Title (new in 5.8)
- Query Loop (new in 5.8)
- Archive Title (new in 5.9)
- Term Description (new in 5.9)
- Post Title (new in 5.8)
- Post Content (new in 5.8)
- Post Date (new in 5.8)
- Post Excerpt (new in 5.8)
- Post Featured Image (new in 5.8)
- Post Categories (new in 5.8)
- Post Tags (new in 5.8)
- Login/out (new in 5.8)
- Page List (new in 5.8)
Widgets
- Shortcode
- Archives
- Calendar (new in 5.3)
- Categories
- Latest Comments
- Latest Posts
- RSS (new in 5.3)
- Search (new in 5.3)
- Social Icons (new in 5.4)
- Tag Cloud (new in 5.3)
Embeds
- Embed
- YouTube
- WordPress
- SoundCloud
- Spotify
- Flickr
- Vimeo
- Animoto
- CloudUp
- Crowdsignal
- Dailymotion
- Imgur
- Issuu
- Kickstarter
- Meetup.com
- Mixcloud
- ReverbNation
- Screencast
- Scribd
- Slideshare
- SmugMug
- Speaker Deck
- TikTok (new in 5.4)
- TED
- Tumblr
- VideoPress
- WordPress.tv
- Amazon Kindle
Changelog
- Updated 2022-03-21
- Linked to Post Date Block page
- Linked to Post Tags Block page
- Linked to Post Categories Block page
- Linked to Post Excerpt Block page
- Updated 2022-03-17
- Linked to Post Featured Image Block page
- Linked to Post Title Block page
- Updated 2022-03-10
- Added Archive Title block
- Updated 2022-03-09
- Added Term Description block
- Updated 2022-01-05
- Added Navigation block link
- Added Template Part block link
- Updated 2021-10-15
- Added Buttons Block link
- Updated 2021-07-07
- Added Query Loop Block
- Updated 2021-03-15
- Added Vimeo Embed Block link
- Updated 2020-11-25
- Added Tumblr Block link
- Added Social Links Block
- Updated 2020-09-21
- Added Group Embed Block link
- Updated 2020-09-04
- Added Reddit Embed Block link
- Updated 2020-08-24
- Added Cloudup Embed Block link
- Updated 2020-08-17
- Added Tag Cloud block
- Updated 2020-08-13
- Deleted Hulu, Funny or Die and CollegeHumor Block listing
- Updated 2020-7-27
- Added Dailymotion Embed block link
- Added Scribd Embed block link
- Added Speaker Dec Embed block link
- Added VideoPress Embed block link
- Updated 2020-7-25
- Added Issuu Embed block link
- Updated 2020-7-24
- Added WordPress.tv Embed block link
- Added Screencast Embed block link
- Updated 2020-7-05
- Added MixCloud Embed block link
- Added TikTok Embed block link
- Added ReverbNation block link
- Added Crowdsignal block link
- Updated 2020-7-02
- Added SmugMug Embed block link
- Added Animoto Embed block link
- Updated 2020-06-30
- Added Flickr Embed block link
- Updated 2020-06-18
- Added Slideshare Embed block link
- Updated 2020-06-04
- Added TED Embed block link
- Added Spotify Embed block link
- Added Meetup Embed block link
- Added Instagram Embed Block link
- Added SoundCloud Embed Block link
- Updated 2020-05-25
- Added WordPress Embed Block link
- Updated 2020-04-28
- Added Links to Calendar Block and Category Widget Blocks
- Updated 2020-04-24
- Added links to Block category headers
- Updated 2020-04-22
- Added link to new Twitter embed page
- Updated 2020-04-21
- Added link to new YouTube embed page
- Updated 2020-04-20
- Changed date format from mm/dd/yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd
- Added link to new Facebook Embed page
- Added screenshots from Inserter Embed Category
- Updated 2020-04-18
- Added new screenshots for Widget, Formatting and Common blocks
- updated the list of Widget and Layout blocks
- Updated: 2020-01-16
- added “Group” to the list of Layout Elements and graphic of the Inserter
- Updated2019-11-23
- added link to new RSS block page
- Created: 2019-03-07
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