Edi Amin

<p>Struggling with adding multiple CSS classes to your WordPress blocks? CSS Class Manager simplifies the process with autocomplete suggestions and a dedicated manager for adding, editing, and organizing your classes. Boost your block styling efficiency!</p>
<p>There are two main motivations behind creating this plugin:<br />
<strong>Limitation of Block Style</strong> – When applying a block style, only one CSS class can be added to a block. Unfortunately, the block editor lacks the ability to select multiple block styles. To address this, users must resort to the Additional CSS Class(es) inspector control to apply multiple classes. CSS Class Manager provides a powerful manager and an autocomplete inspector control, enabling users to easily add and apply CSS classes to their blocks.<br />
<strong>Poor UX of the Additional CSS Class(es) control</strong> – The default control for adding class names is a simple text input. This can be cumbersome, especially when applying CSS classes frequently. With the custom inspector control provided by CSS Class Manager, users can effortlessly add their class names, enhancing the user experience.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Advanced Autocomplete Control:</strong> Streamline block styling with autocomplete functionality for CSS classes.</li>
<li><strong>Effortless Class Management:</strong> Easily add, edit, or remove CSS classes directly within the manager interface.</li>
<li><strong>Body and Post Classes:</strong> Add custom class names to post body and post containers using body_class and post_class filters directly from the post editor.</li>
<li><strong>Inline CSS Classes:</strong> Add custom class names to any selected text inside paragraph, heading and other blocks that support Rich Text.</li>
<li><strong>Theme.json Integration:</strong> Automatically include global class names generated from theme.json settings in your class suggestions.</li>
<li><strong>Show the control in its own panel:</strong> User specific settings to show the Additional CSS Class(es) control in its own panel.</li>
<li><strong>Add classes without saving to the database:</strong> User specific settings to toggle saving classes to the database.</li>
<li><strong>Import and Export:</strong> Seamlessly transfer custom CSS class names to ensure consistency across projects.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Getting Started</h3>
<ol>
<li>Activate the plugin within your WordPress setup.</li>
<li>The advanced control will replace the default “Additional CSS Class(es)” and can be found in the “Advance” block settings section.</li>
<li>Adding and selecting classes in the autocomplete field is similar to the tags and categories fields.</li>
<li>To add body or post classes, look for the “Body Classes” and “Post Classes” controls in the Post tab of the post editor (requires custom-fields support). <a href="https://github.com/ediamin/css-class-manager/wiki/Known-Issues#body-classes-preview-in-block-editor" rel="nofollow ugc">See the limitations</a></li>
<li>To add inline classes to the selected text, use the block format tool control in the text formatting tools options (available in blocks that support Rich Text).</li>
<li>To edit and manage class names, click the “Open Class Manager” link or select “CSS Class Manager” from the More Menu.</li>
<li>Import/Export can be done from the manager modal.</li>
<li>Theme.json generated classes are automatically included and can be disabled from the Preferences in the manager modal.</li>
<li>Use <code>css_class_manager_filtered_class_names</code> filter to add class names with PHP files.</li>
</ol>


CSS Class Manager – An advanced autocomplete additional css class control for your blocks


For years I used the Editors Kit plugin for the sole purpose of the CSS Class Management. However, though the years that plugin became a disaster, with lots of garbage added to it.



Thankfully I found this little gem. The only thing that I want to add as a Wishlist, that the Editors Kit has is to export the custom CSS classes in php as well, so we can simply include that code in our plugins/themes, so we don't have to import/export the json files with each site installation.



Nevertheless, this is one of my must use plugins for every site, since I have dozens of custom CSS classes to deal with.



I can not express enough my gratitude, YOU ROCK !!!


I really REALLY appreciate this.

Advanced autocomplete CSS class control for blocks with inline styling, body/post classes, and powerful management tools.

Francesco Canovi

Marco Chiesi

Black Studio

<p>Navigation dropdown menus are widely used, especially on sites with lots of pages and/or categories, as they allow to navigate directly to almost every page of the site, with no need to navigate through all the intermediate pages in the hierarchy. Unfortunately dropdown menus do not work well with mobile / touch devices, because the “mouseover” event is not handled, so when the user click a top level menu, the browser follows the link instead of opening the dropdown menu. This plugin is a solution for that situation. On touch devices, the first click / tap on a top level menu (or, in general on any menu with children) only expands the nested dropdown menu, while the second one brings to the link. This is the same behavior natively adopted by iPad / iPhone starting from iOS version 5, so this plugin is intended to work with previous versions of iOS and with other mobile platforms that do not have such native behavior (Android, Windows, etc).</p>
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.blackstudio.it/en/" rel="nofollow ugc">Black Studio web site</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.blackstudio.it/en/wordpress-plugins/black-studio-touch-dropdown-menu/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin’s web page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/black-studio-touch-dropdown-menu" rel="ugc">Support forum</a></li>
<li>Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/blackstudioita" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/blackstudiocomunicazione" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/black-studio" rel="nofollow ugc">LinkedIn</a> and <a href="https://github.com/black-studio" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Get involved</h4>
<ul>
<li>Developers can contribute to the source code on our <a href="https://github.com/black-studio/black-studio-touch-dropdown-menu" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.</li>
<li>Users can contribute by leaving a 5 stars <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/black-studio-touch-dropdown-menu#postform" rel="ugc">review</a> or making a <a href="https://www.blackstudio.it/en/wordpress-plugins/black-studio-touch-dropdown-menu/" rel="nofollow ugc">donation</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>This plugin was inspired by the article <a href="https://snippets.webaware.com.au/snippets/make-css-drop-down-menus-work-on-touch-devices/" rel="nofollow ugc">“Make CSS drop-down menus work on touch devices”</a> written by Ross McKay, although it uses a totally different javascript code.</p>


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