Simon Kraft

Matthias Kittsteiner

epiphyt

Have you ever used WordPress’ new block editor Gutenberg and wished for a way to influence, when and to whom blocks are shown? We’ve been in this situation, that’s why we came up with Block Control. This nifty little plugin allows you to control, whether a block should be displayed under certain circumstances or not. And that’s of course true for both WordPress’ default blocks and blocks added by third-party plugins.
You can hide blocks based on:
<ul>
<li>Device types (desktop, mobile, screen reader)</li>
<li>Login status</li>
<li>Date (start and end date)</li>
<li>User roles</li>
<li>Page types</li>
<li>Posts of the current post type</li>
<li>Feeds</li>
<li>Page number in numbered pages (in archives and search results)</li>
</ul>
Additionally, you can set an inline formatting to display certain text only for screen readers.
<h4>Contribution</h4>
Feel free to contribute. The code is available at <a href="https://github.com/epiphyt/block-control" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.
<h4>Documentation</h4>
You can find the documentation for BLock Control at <a href="https://docs.epiph.yt/block-control/" rel="nofollow ugc">docs.epiph.yt</a>.

Block Control

I've used this plugins on two websites now. It works just great. The visibility option for different devices is very useful.

It works just smoothly

Lovely helper plugin lets you select, if you need to be logged in to see a block in a post or page and whether it should be hidden on certain devices.

Currently the plugin description may be a little vague ("it does what?") but the plugin works right out of the box and may be for many a smart solution for a simple task. 

Well done, Matthias and Simon. 👏🏻

Nice little helper plugin

Block Control allows you to take control of all the blocks on your website. Tailor a unique experience for your visitors.

geomagas

This plugin provides an [if] shortcode to conditionally render content. The syntax is the following:
<pre><code>[if condition1 condition2=false condition3]{content}[/if]
</code></pre>
Conditions are passed as attribute names. Multiple conditions evaluate to the result of ORing all of them. In other words, if at least one condition evaluates to the desired boolean result, {content} is rendered, otherwise it is discarded. 
Attribute values determine if we want the condition to be true or false. A value of <code>'0'</code>, <code>'false'</code>, <code>''</code> (the empty string), <code>'null'</code> or <code>'no'</code> means we expect the condition to be false. Anything else, including the absense of a value, is interpreted as true.
For example, suppose that we want to include a sentence in a post, but only for anonymous visitors:
<pre><code>[if is_user_logged_in=no]The Sentence.[/if]
</code></pre>
It also provides an [else] shortcode and an [eitherway] one for use inside [if] blocks. [else] will render its content if the condition evaluates to false, and [eitherway] will render its content regardless of the evaluation result. 
When used outside an [if] block, these shortcodes behave as if the whole content is surrounded by an [if] shortcode whose condition evaluates to true. In other words, an [else] shortcode would not render any content, while a [eitherway] one would. You can use as many of these shortcodes as you like in a single [if] block, which gives you the ability to do things like:
<pre><code> - Am I logged in?
 [if is_user_logged_in]- Yes you are.
 [else]- No you are not.
 [/else][eitherway]- I'm sorry, what?
 [/eitherway]- I said YOU A-R-E LOGGED IN!!!
 [else]- YOU ARE NOT LOGGED IN!!! What's the matter with you?[/else][/if]
</code></pre>
A multitude of conditions are supported out-of-the-box. The following evaluate to the result of the corresponding <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/conditional-tags/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Conditional Tag</a>, using the no-parameter syntax:
<pre><code> is_single
 is_singular
 is_page
 is_home
 is_front_page
 is_privacy_policy
 is_attachment
 is_category
 is_tag
 is_tax
 is_author
 is_archive
 is_year
 is_month
 is_date
 is_day
 is_time
 is_feed
 is_search
 is_sticky
 is_preview
 has_term
 has_excerpt
 comments_open
 pings_open
 is_404
 is_user_logged_in
 is_super_admin
 is_multi_author
 is_multisite
 is_main_site
 is_child_theme
</code></pre>
For example, the evaluation of the <code>is_page</code> condition is equivalent to calling <code>is_page()</code> with no parameter.
<h3>Extending</h3>
The functionality of the plugin can be extended by other plugins, by means of adding custom conditions through filters. To add a custom condition, a filter hook must be defined in the following manner:
<pre><code>add_filter($if_shortcode_filter_prefix.'my_condition','my_condition_evaluator');

function my_condition_evaluator($value) {
 $evaluate=.... /* add your evaluation code here */
 return $evaluate;
}
</code></pre>
Then, you can use your custom condition like so:
<pre><code>[if my_condition]{content}[/if]
</code></pre>
A big thanks to M Miller for the <a href="http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/123073/39275" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>normalize_empty_atts()</code></a> function.

If Shortcode

This plugin provides an [if] shortcode to conditionally render content.

Block Control vs If Shortcode