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Ascend is your AI-powered content creation assistant that learns about your business, understands your target audience, analyzes your competitors, and automatically creates SEO-optimized blog posts that drive traffic to your WordPress site.
Stop spending hours on keyword research, competitor analysis, and content creation. Ascend does the heavy lifting for you by understanding what makes your business unique, identifying the most valuable keywords from your Google Search Console data, and generating high-quality blog posts designed to rank and convert.
How Ascend Works:
<ol>
<li>Learns Your Business – Tell Ascend about your business, products, services, and what makes you unique</li>
<li>Understands Your Audience – Analyzes who your customers are and what they’re searching for</li>
<li>Studies Your Competition – Researches what’s working for competitors in your niche</li>
<li>Finds High-Value Keywords – Uses Google Search Console data to identify relevant keywords with real search volume and ranking potential</li>
<li>Creates Optimized Content – Generates comprehensive blog posts with proper keyword placement, meta descriptions, and internal linking</li>
<li>Publishes Automatically – Delivers finished posts to your WordPress site, ready to publish or review</li>
</ol>
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Intelligent Content Generation – Creates blog posts tailored to your specific business and audience</li>
<li>Data-Driven Keyword Research – Identifies high-value keywords using actual search performance data from Google Search Console</li>
<li>Competitor Analysis – Understands what’s working in your industry to create better content</li>
<li>Complete SEO Optimization – Handles keyword placement, meta descriptions, internal linking, and featured images</li>
<li>Keyword Management Dashboard – Track and manage target keywords directly from WordPress</li>
<li>Flexible Publishing Options – Choose to publish automatically or save as drafts for review</li>
<li>WordPress-Native Experience – Everything happens inside your WordPress admin—no switching between tools</li>
</ul>
Who Is Ascend For?
<ul>
<li>Digital agencies managing content for multiple clients</li>
<li>Bloggers and content creators who want to scale their output</li>
<li>E-commerce sites looking to drive traffic to product pages</li>
<li>Small businesses competing with larger companies through content</li>
<li>Anyone who wants consistent, high-quality blog content without the manual work</li>
</ul>
External Services
This plugin connects to the Ascend API to generate and optimize content for your site. You’ll need to sign up for an Ascend account at <a href="https://ascend.cv/" rel="nofollow ugc">ascend.cv</a> to use this plugin.
The plugin also integrates with Google Search Console to analyze your site’s search performance and identify high-value keyword opportunities (optional but recommended).
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin relies on the following external services to function:
Ascend API 
– Purpose: Content generation and optimization 
– Data sent: Business information, company description, target keywords, API credentials 
– When data is sent: When generating new content or syncing with the Ascend platform 
– Service URL: <a href="https://ascend.cv/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://ascend.cv</a> 
– Privacy Policy: <a href="https://ascend.cv/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">https://ascend.cv/privacy</a> 
– Terms of Service: <a href="https://ascend.cv/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">https://ascend.cv/terms</a>
Google Search Console API (Optional) 
– Purpose: Retrieve site search performance data for keyword research 
– Data sent: Site URL, authentication credentials 
– When data is sent: When connecting your GSC account and syncing performance data 
– Service URL: <a href="https://search.google.com/search-console" rel="nofollow ugc">https://search.google.com/search-console</a> 
– Privacy Policy: <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">https://policies.google.com/privacy</a> 
– Terms of Service: <a href="https://policies.google.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">https://policies.google.com/terms</a>

Ascend – SEO Content Automation

Generate, optimize, and publish SEO-focused blog posts automatically with AI-powered content creation.

Freemius

Abu Hayat

bPlugins

Charles Cormier

Farazi Forhad

​The Ultimate Gutenberg Block to Display Posts, Pages, and Custom Content Beautifully
<a href="https://bplugins.com/products/advanced-post-block/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Post Block</a> | <a href="https://bplugins.com/docs/advanced-post-block/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> | <a href="https://bplugins.com/products/advanced-post-block/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pricing</a> | <a href="https://bplugins.com/support/" rel="nofollow ugc">Support</a> | <a href="https://bplugins.com/products/advanced-post-block/#demos" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo</a>
<a href="https://bplugins.com/products/advanced-post-block/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Post Block</a> is a Gutenberg blocks plugin for displaying posts, pages, and custom post types in WordPress with advanced query controls, filtering, and multiple layout options.
It supports grid, list, masonry, slider, ticker, and news-style layouts, allowing you to create dynamic post displays for blogs, magazines, and content-heavy websites. The plugin includes flexible query parameters such as category, tag, author, keyword search, and custom taxonomy filtering, along with query presets for faster setup.
Recent additions include AJAX-based post loading, pagination, load more, and infinite scroll, enabling seamless content browsing without page reloads. It also supports post view tracking and sorting by popularity, helping highlight trending or most-viewed content.
You can control the visibility and structure of post elements, including featured images, titles, metadata, excerpts, and read more links. Built for performance and responsiveness, the plugin integrates directly with the WordPress block editor to create structured, customizable content layouts without coding.
<h3>Layout Options</h3>
Choose from various display styles:
<ul>
<li>
Grid: Arrange posts in a column-based format.
</li>
<li>
Masonry: Automatically position posts in a staggered, flowing layout.
</li>
<li>
Slider: Create carousel-style post sections.
</li>
<li>
Ticker: Show content as a scrolling headline list.
</li>
</ul>
Each layout includes sub-layouts such as Title Meta, Left or Right Image, and Overlay Content.
<h3>Filtering and Query Controls</h3>
<ul>
<li>
Easily select and organize the content you want to display:
</li>
<li>
Display standard posts, pages, or custom post types.
</li>
<li>
Filter by categories, tags, or authors.
</li>
<li>
Control post order and offset.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Design Customization</h3>
Fine-tune the look and feel of your content listings:
<ul>
<li>
Show or hide featured images, and choose whether they link to the post.
</li>
<li>
Customize post titles, excerpts, and read more links.
</li>
<li>
Display post metadata such as date, author, and categories, with control over visibility and styling.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Responsive and Performance-Focused</h3>
All layouts are optimized for mobile and desktop devices. The plugin is built to load efficiently and minimize impact on performance.
<h3>Key Features – Free Version</h3>
Everything you need to build a professional and modern content display:
<ul>
<li>
Core Layouts: Choose from professional Grid, Masonry, Slider, Ticker and News Ticker views.
</li>
<li>
Flexible Sub-layouts: Optimize displays with Default, Left/Right Image, Overlay, and Title-Meta layouts.
</li>
<li>
Slider Options: Customize the slider layout with loop, touch move, autoplay, speed, effect, pagination and navigation with the customization and styling.
</li>
<li>
Dynamic Post Query: Advanced filtering by post type, posts per page, categories, authors, taxonomy relation (AND/OR), post orders and more.
</li>
<li>
Element Visibility: Full control to show or hide thumbnails, titles, metadata, excerpts, and read more buttons.
</li>
<li>
Feature Image Settings: Toggle link, set dimensions (Width/Height), and adjust image fitting (Cover/Contain) for a polished look.
</li>
<li>
Title Control: Customize post title with enable link, select tag, set typography, alignment, colors, and margin.
</li>
<li>
Flexible Metadata: Show or hide post author, date, categories with position, and comment counts with typography, different colors and margin.
</li>
<li>
Dynamic Excerpt: Display excerpt from post excerpt or content with limit, alignment, typography, colors, and margin.
</li>
<li>
Customized Read More: Show Read More button with custom label and icon with link tab and style for alignment, typography, padding, colors, borders, shadows and hover animation.
</li>
<li>
Interactive Container Design: Alignment, backgrounds, borders, and shadows with padding support for article blocks and content areas.
</li>
<li>
Shortcode Support: Seamlessly display post blocks anywhere on your site using shortcodes.
</li>
<li>
Responsive Ready: Fully optimized for a perfect experience on mobile, tablet, and desktop devices.
</li>
<li>
Developer Friendly: Built with clean code following the best WordPress developmental standards.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Pro Version – Unlock Premium Power</h3>
<a href="https://bplugins.com/products/advanced-post-block/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Post Block Pro</a> adds precision filtering, layout enhancements, and deeper content control for high-performing websites.
What’s Included in Pro:
<ul>
<li>
Exclusive Layouts: Unlock the Grid 1, Magazine 1, and Magazine 2 layouts and sub-layouts like Overlay Content Box, Overlay Half Content, and List Even/Odd.
</li>
<li>
Ticker Options: Customize the Ticker layout with direction, speed, interval, height, and pause on mouse hover options.
</li>
<li>
News Ticker Pro: Fine-tune News Ticker layout with label, theme, type, direction, speed, animation, and pause on mouse hover options.
</li>
<li>
Display Pages: Showcase standard WordPress pages alongside your posts.
</li>
<li>
Query Presets: Instant query configurations for Popular, Random, Sticky, Most Comments, Related Posts, and more.
</li>
<li>
Deeper Filtering: Advanced posts query by Tags, Custom Taxonomies, Search Queries and more Order By options.
</li>
<li>
Post Precision: Use Offset to skip the first “N” posts or manually Include/Exclude content by IDs, Exclude current and sticky posts.
</li>
<li>
Pagination & AJAX: Modern Pagination, Navigation, Infinite Scroll, and Load More button to display more posts.
</li>
<li>
Sortable Elements: Intuitive drag-and-drop interface to rearrange Post Title, Metadata, and Excerpt.
</li>
<li>
Title Control: Set precise Word/Character limits with ellipsis to adjust title length.
</li>
<li>
Feature Image: Define the image size, lazyload, and set default Placeholder image with normal-hover grayscale effects and hover radius styling.
</li>
<li>
Metadata Customization: Set separator and gaps between meta items, reorder/sorting the meta items, set alignment for the metadata.
</li>
<li>
Meta Author: Set the author link and set custom icon for the author meta.
</li>
<li>
Meta Date: Set the date format, show date as time ago and set custom icon for the date meta.
</li>
<li>
Meta Category: Set the category on image position, and set padding, border radius for the Badge display.
</li>
</ul>
–Tags and Custom Taxonomies: Display tags and custom taxonomies in the meta with the custom icon.
<ul>
<li>
Meta Reading Time: Show post read time with seconds, label and custom icon.
</li>
<li>
Post View Count: Enable post view count with custom to display the post views in meta area.
</li>
<li>
Excerpt Control: Display the SEO Meta description from Yoast, Rank Math, or AIOSEO at the excerpt and display the ellipsis.
</li>
<li>
Advanced Read More: Unlock more icons, set icon gap, and position with pulse animations.
</li>
<li>
Custom Query Hook: Leverage the <code>apb_query</code> filter for deep developer-level control.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>How to Use – Step-by-Step Setup</h3>
Getting started is fast and beginner-friendly.
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/milYZrqLJsE?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
You can set up your first post grid in just a few clicks.
Step-by-Step Setup:
<ul>
<li>
Install and activate the Advanced Post Block plugin.
</li>
<li>
Open a post or page in the Gutenberg editor.
</li>
<li>
Click the + icon.
</li>
<li>
Find the block called Advanced Post Block under the “Advanced Post Block” category.
</li>
<li>
Choose your layout style, post type, and configure display settings.
</li>
<li>
Save and publish.
</li>
<li>
That’s it!
</li>
</ul>
Gutenberg Block Support 
Using the Block Editor? You’re covered.
<ul>
<li>
Easily find the Advanced Post Block in the Gutenberg block library.
</li>
<li>
Drag and drop to add dynamic post lists to any page or post.
</li>
<li>
Customize layout and design using the right-hand block settings panel.
</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://bplugins.com/products/advanced-post-block/#demos" rel="nofollow ugc">Live Demo</a> | <a href="https://bplugins.com/products/advanced-post-block/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to Pro</a>
<h3>User Feedback</h3>
<h4>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-plugin-8873/" rel="ugc">Excellent Plugin</a></h4>
❛❛Amazing plugin, with now option to showcase pages instead of posts as well. Just perfect!❜❜
–<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sophibee/" rel="nofollow ugc">sophibee</a>
<h4>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-does-what-i-need-it-to-do-very-well/" rel="ugc">It does what I need it to do very well</a></h4>
❛❛This plugin works good, has many options and sounds like more to come. What I like best is the support. Nothing better then a quick reply and they were able help out too! Looking forward to much more style control maybe in a future update.❜❜
–<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/emburr/" rel="nofollow ugc">eMBurr</a>
<h4>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-job-1273/" rel="ugc">Great Job!</a></h4>
❛❛I love the layout! Makes things fast and easy.❜❜
–<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/torichambers/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tori Chambers</a>
<h4>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wonderful-plugin-exceptional-support/" rel="ugc">Wonderful plugin, exceptional support</a></h4>
❛❛I’ll be completely honest, the level of support offered by the plugin creator is exceptional! This is the best plugin for your blog posts arrangement, it makes your blog look wonderful and well-organized.❜❜
–<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/husainghasra/" rel="nofollow ugc">husainghasra</a>
<h4>– Did you like this plugin? Dislike it? Have a feature request? <a href="mailto:support@bplugins.com" title="Send feedback" rel="nofollow ugc">Please share your feedback with us</a></h4>
<h3>Check out the Parent Plugin of this plugin-</h3>
<a href="https://bblockswp.com" rel="nofollow ugc">B Blocks</a> – A blocks collection and page building tool for Gutenberg.
<h3>Check out our other WordPress Plugins-</h3>
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<h3>Source Code</h3>
You can find the source code, report bugs, and contribute to the development of this plugin on our GitHub repository: 
<a href="https://github.com/bPlugins/advanced-post-block" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Post Block on GitHub</a>
<h3>Third-Party Libraries</h3>
This plugin bundles the following third-party JavaScript/PHP libraries.
<h4>jQuery Easy Ticker</h4>
<ul>
<li>Source: https://github.com/vaakash/jquery-easy-ticker</li>
<li>GitHub: https://github.com/vaakash/jquery-easy-ticker</li>
<li>License: MIT – <a href="https://github.com/vaakash/jquery-easy-ticker/blob/master/LICENSE" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/vaakash/jquery-easy-ticker/blob/master/LICENSE</a></li>
<li>Purpose: Provides smooth vertical scrolling for the News Ticker layout.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Swiper</h4>
<ul>
<li>Source: https://swiperjs.com/</li>
<li>GitHub: https://github.com/nolimits4web/swiper</li>
<li>License: MIT – <a href="https://github.com/nolimits4web/swiper/blob/master/LICENSE" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/nolimits4web/swiper/blob/master/LICENSE</a></li>
<li>Purpose: Modern touch slider used for Slider and News Ticker components.</li>
</ul>
<h4>react-responsive-masonry</h4>
<ul>
<li>Source: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-responsive-masonry</li>
<li>GitHub: https://github.com/cedricdelpoux/react-responsive-masonry</li>
<li>License: MIT – <a href="https://github.com/cedricdelpoux/react-responsive-masonry/blob/master/LICENSE" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/cedricdelpoux/react-responsive-masonry/blob/master/LICENSE</a></li>
<li>Purpose: Handles responsive masonry layouts for post displays.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Freemius Lite SDK (Custom)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purpose: A custom-made version of the Freemius SDK that calls through api.bplugins.com to handle opt-in usage tracking and analytics to help improve the plugin.</li>
</ul>

Advanced Post Block – Showcase Posts with Grid, List, Card Layouts and Filters

Thanks, bPlugins for creating such useful software. The WordPress community is really enjoying your software. 

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Charging a montly fee to use the pro features is a joke. You offer nothing to warrant the montly fee. It should be a one off payment for something like this. Dont waste your time with this. 


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Advanced Post Block lets you add dynamic post grids, lists, sliders, and tickers. Filter content by category, tag, author, or custom post type.

Ascend – SEO Content Automation vs Advanced Post Block – Showcase Posts with Grid, List, Card Layouts and Filters