Edi Amin

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!
There are two main motivations behind creating this plugin: 
Limitation of Block Style – 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. 
Poor UX of the Additional CSS Class(es) control – 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.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Advanced Autocomplete Control: Streamline block styling with autocomplete functionality for CSS classes.</li>
<li>Effortless Class Management: Easily add, edit, or remove CSS classes directly within the manager interface.</li>
<li>Body and Post Classes: Add custom class names to post body and post containers using body_class and post_class filters directly from the post editor.</li>
<li>Inline CSS Classes: Add custom class names to any selected text inside paragraph, heading and other blocks that support Rich Text.</li>
<li>Theme.json Integration: Automatically include global class names generated from theme.json settings in your class suggestions.</li>
<li>Show the control in its own panel: User specific settings to show the Additional CSS Class(es) control in its own panel.</li>
<li>Add classes without saving to the database: User specific settings to toggle saving classes to the database.</li>
<li>Import and Export: 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.

metaloha

Use a shortcode to define a drop-down form field, and shortcodes to define blocks of content that will be displayed when a specific entry is selected.
<h3>Usage</h3>
To add a content dropdown to a post, you can either select the Content Dropdown icon from the TinyMCE editor, or enter the shortcodes manually.
<pre><code>[dropdown name="controlName" class="customClassName"] - both `name` and `class` are optional; `name` will default to `dropdown-content`
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>the <code>name</code> is used to identify which content sections are targetted by this dropdown; if there is only one dropdown on a page, it is optional; if there are multiple dropdowns on a page, each will need a unique name</li>
<li><code>class</code> can be a space-separated list of class names, or just a single class name</li>
<li>
only <code>[dropdown-option]</code> shortcodes may be inside this shortcode
[dropdown-option value=”someValue”] – the <code>value</code> field is technically optional, but is required if this option is meant to make a content block visible
</li>
<li>
must be inside a <code>[dropdown]</code> shortcode
[dropdown-content name=”controlName” value=”someValue”] – if the <code>name</code> matches a dropdown name, and the <code>value</code> matches the value of an option within that dropdown, then this content will be displayed when that specific option is selected.
</li>
<li>
again, <code>name</code> is technically optional, but must match a <code>[dropdown]</code> name (also defaults to <code>dropdown-content</code>)
</li>
<li><code>value</code> is required, and must match a <code>value</code> for a <code>[dropdown-option]</code></li>
<li>can be anywhere on the page</li>
</ul>
<h3>Example</h3>
Copy and paste the following content to see the plugin in action
[dropdown] 
[dropdown-option]Select one…[/dropdown-option] 
[dropdown-option value=”option1″]First option[/dropdown-option] 
[dropdown-option value=”option2″]Second Option[/dropdown-option] 
[/dropdown]
[dropdown-content value=”option1″]Content for the first option.[/dropdown-content]
[dropdown-content value=”option2″]Content for the second option.[/dropdown-content]
Those were all using the default values from the plugin. Let’s change it up a bit.
[dropdown] 
[dropdown-option value=”option1″]The First[/dropdown-option] 
[dropdown-option value=”option2″ default=true]The Second[/dropdown-option] 
[dropdown-option value=”option3″]The Third[/dropdown-option] 
[/dropdown]
You’ll notice below that the second option will be displayed by default for you.
[dropdown-content value=”option1″]Some different content for the second first option.[/dropdown-content]
[dropdown-content value=”option2″]Some different content for the second second option.[/dropdown-content]
[dropdown-content value=”option3″]Some different content for the second third option.[/dropdown-content]

Dropdown Content

Allows different content to be displayed based on the value of an author-defined drop-down box.

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