Simon Kraft

Matthias Kittsteiner

epiphyt

<p>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.</p>
<p>You can hide blocks based on:</p>
<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>
<p>Additionally, you can set an inline formatting to display certain text only for screen readers.</p>
<h4>Contribution</h4>
<p>Feel free to contribute. The code is available at <a href="https://github.com/epiphyt/block-control" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>You can find the documentation for BLock Control at <a href="https://docs.epiph.yt/block-control/" rel="nofollow ugc">docs.epiph.yt</a>.</p>


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.

Scott (@scottsweb)

<p>mobble provides mobile related conditional functions for your site. e.g. <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mobble/faq/" title="More examples" rel="ugc">is_iphone(), is_mobile() and is_tablet()</a>.</p>
<p>CSS media queries are great for creating responsive web designs but they do not always provide enough control. There are times when not all of the content, JavaScript or CSS on a page is relevant for a particular device. With the mobble functions you can make these kind of tweaks to your theme.</p>
<p>mobble can also add device information to the body class of your theme allowing you to easily target your CSS for different gadgets.</p>
<p><a href="http://scott.ee/" title="Freelance WordPress web design Farnham, Surrey" rel="nofollow ugc">a plugin by Scott Evans</a></p>


mobble

Plugin is very simple and works very well. Great example of the plugin that does one job and does it well. Very appreciated!

Great plugin

Helper plugin that provides conditional functions for detecting a variety of mobile devices & tablets. Perfect accompaniment to CSS Media Queries.

Block Control vs mobble