matthewneilcowan

<p>Find Blocks, Patterns & Shortcodes locates content containing specific Gutenberg blocks (including options to search by CSS class and HTML anchor attributes), patterns, and shortcodes, with a CSV export feature perfect for audits & analysis.</p>
<h4>Core Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Progressive search</strong> with batch processing for large sites</li>
<li><strong>Post type filtering</strong> – search across posts, pages, or custom post types to find blocks, patterns, and shortcodes</li>
<li><strong>CSV export</strong> – export results for reporting, auditing, and analysis</li>
<li><strong>Block dropdown</strong> – select from all registered blocks</li>
<li><strong>Attribute search</strong> – find blocks by CSS class and HTML anchor attributes</li>
<li><strong>Synced pattern search</strong> – find usage of reusable blocks/patterns</li>
<li><strong>Sortable results tables</strong> for easy analysis</li>
<li><strong>WP-CLI support</strong> for automation</li>
</ul>
<h4>Performance Optimized</h4>
<ul>
<li>Smart caching with 5-minute TTL</li>
<li>Batch processing (100 posts per batch)</li>
<li>Query optimization (IDs only fetch)</li>
<li>Progress indicators for long operations</li>
<li>Cancellable searches</li>
<li>Hard limit protection (500-1000 posts)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Security</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enhanced input validation with blacklisting</li>
<li>Dual-layer rate limiting (user + IP)</li>
<li>Timeout protection (25-second safeguard)</li>
<li>Information disclosure prevention</li>
<li>XSS and injection prevention</li>
<li>Nonce auto-refresh for long sessions</li>
</ul>
<h4>Accessibility</h4>
<ul>
<li>Screen reader compatible with ARIA live regions</li>
<li>Full keyboard navigation support</li>
<li>Visible focus indicators</li>
<li>Form labels for all inputs</li>
<li>Results count announcements</li>
<li>Responsive design with 200% zoom support</li>
</ul>
<h3>WP-CLI Commands</h3>
<p>Search for blocks:<br />
    wp block-usage search core/paragraph –post-type=post,page –format=table</p>
<p>Clear cache:<br />
    wp block-usage clear-cache</p>
<p>View security logs:<br />
    wp block-usage logs –limit=100 –format=csv</p>
<h3>Filters and Hooks</h3>
<h4>Filters</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>fbps_query_limit</code> – Adjust search limit (default: 500, max: 1000)</li>
<li><code>fbps_enable_security_logging</code> – Toggle security logging (default: true)</li>
<li><code>fbps_allow_editor_access</code> – Allow Editor role access (default: false)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Actions</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>fbps_security_event</code> – Hook into security event logging</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>This plugin:<br />
* Does not collect any user data<br />
* Does not make external API calls<br />
* Stores security logs locally (last 1000 events)<br />
* Logs include: timestamp, user ID, IP address, event type<br />
* Security logs can be disabled via filter</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please use the WordPress.org support forums.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Developed by Matthew Cowan</p>


Find Blocks, Patterns & Shortcodes

Find which posts and pages use specific Gutenberg blocks, patterns, and shortcodes with advanced search and CSV export functionality.

Jeffrey Carandang

Marketing Fire

<p>Widget Options gives you super powers to control your site’s sidebar widgets and all Gutenberg blocks on pages & posts.</p>
<p>👉 Over 2,700,000+ downloads<br />
👉 Average rating of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.9 stars<br />
👉 Reduce plugin bloat. Widgets AND Gutenberg block control in one plugin</p>
<p>Widget Options expands Widget & Gutenberg block settings with feature-packed options so you can completely manage and control their visibility, appearance, and behavior. Show or hide content depending on user roles, devices, dates, URL…and more!</p>
<p><strong> ✨ INSIDER TIP: ✨ Power users love the <a href="https://widget-options.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro version—unlock conditional logic, animation effects, sticky widgets, custom styling, and dozens of advanced controls</a> to make your blocks and widgets do exactly what you want. </strong></p>
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<h3>Take Full Control over your WordPress Widgets & Gutenberg Blocks</h3>
<p>Widget Options’ suite of controls makes it simple to achieve all of the following:</p>
<h4>✅ EASILY MANAGE WIDGET & GUTENBERG BLOCK VISIBILITY ON YOUR WORDPRESS SITE</h4>
<p>Effortlessly manage visibility and access across different pages, posts, and categories with the Widget Options plugin.With intuitive search or checkbox selections, customize your site’s layout for categories, tags, custom post types, and more, ensuring your widgets and blocks appear exactly where you want them!</p>
<h4>✅ SHOW OR HIDE WIDGETS OR BLOCKS ON MOBILE DEVICES, DESKTOP AND/OR TABLET</h4>
<p>Enhance your website’s mobile experience with Widget Options. This tool allows you to streamline navigation by selectively displaying widgets or blocks on mobile devices. Keep your desktop and tablet interfaces unaffected while optimizing mobile views. The ‘Device Visibility’ feature in the widget settings clearly indicates which sidebar widgets are active on different devices, ensuring a flexible and user-friendly widget management.</p>
<h4>✅ USER LOGIN STATE</h4>
<p>Decide which widgets or Gutenberg blocks should be visible or hidden to either logged-in or non-logged-in users. This feature is helpful when you want certain website functions to be available only to registered users.</p>
<h4>✅ CUSTOM WORDPRESS WIDGET ALIGNMENTS</h4>
<p>Change your widget or block alignment to match the entire look of your website. Comes with <strong>center, left, right, and justified alignment</strong><strong> options which can be customized for each device type.</strong></p>
<h4>✅ CUSTOM WIDGET ID & CLASSES</h4>
<p>Create predefined classes on the plugin’s settings page and use them later for each widget. You can also add custom widget ID and additional classes for styling or javascript purposes.</p>
<h4>✅ DISPLAY WIDGET LOGIC</h4>
<p>Use <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Conditional</a> tags to manage and restrict your widgets or Gutenberg blocks using display widget logic option if you’re geeky enough to use PHP conditions and in need of custom restrictions.</p>
<h4>✅ HIDE WIDGET TITLE</h4>
<p>Easily hide widget titles from the front-end display while retaining them on the backend dashboard for labeling.</p>
<h4>✅ ENABLE / DISABLE WIDGET OPTIONS FEATURES</h4>
<p>Tailor your experience effortlessly by selecting only the features you desire, and easily disable any unwanted widget options features through the intuitive settings page.</p>
<h4>✅ WIDGET BLOCK EDITOR</h4>
<p>Choose between the Classic Widget or Gutenberg Block Widget Editor with our latest feature. Experience the classic design with the old widget or embrace the power of blocks with the modern widget. Ideal for users who love the Gutenberg experience!</p>
<h4>✅ STICKY/FIXED WORDPRESS WIDGETS (PRO)</h4>
<p>This premium feature allows widgets to be always visible to users as they scroll up and down a webpage. Make your most important widgets sticky or fixed so that users can access them easily.</p>
<h3>Widget Option’s Time-Saving Features</h3>
<p>Widget plugins shouldn’t only give you control over your widgets. They must also save you a lot of time! Here are Widget Options’ features that can do that:</p>
<h4>✅ LIVE WIDGET SEARCH FILTER</h4>
<p>Admins save time and manage widgets more efficiently by enabling the live widget search box on your widget dashboard to locate widgets easier. No need to scroll the page.</p>
<h4>✅ NO NEED TO DRAG WORDPRESS WIDGETS TO MOVE THEM</h4>
<p>Increase productivity and improve widgets management by moving any widgets easily with just a click-and-select action. No more drag-and-drop! This is a convenient option especially when using small-screen devices such as tablets or mobile phones.</p>
<h4>✅ IMPORT & EXPORT WIDGETS AND WIDGET AREA BACKUP</h4>
<p>You can now import and export WordPress widgets easily and create backups of specific sidebar widget areas. Move widgets to another website with ease.</p>
<h4>✅ VIEW YOUR CHANGES LIVE</h4>
<p>This plugin is customizer-ready for easier modification. View your changes live before saving it!</p>
<h3>Compatible with Most Major Page Builders</h3>
<p>Some widget plugins may not work well with page builders. Widget Options supports Gutenberg, SiteOrigin, Elementor, and Beaver, helping you manage widget visibility and placement with ease.</p>
<h4>🛠️ GUTENBERG BLOCK EDITOR BY WORDPRESS</h4>
<p>Widget Options gives you full control over the visibility of Gutenberg Blocks, which are the building blocks for many themes and sites today. Simply select the content block you want to edit and you will see all of the Widget Options abilities on the right side settings panel.</p>
<h4>🛠️ PAGE BUILDER BY SITEORIGIN PLUGIN COMPATIBLE</h4>
<p>With Widget Options on your website that is powered by SiteOrigin Page Builder, you can add more control to the widget panels. Manage visibility on specific device types, change alignments, hide widget panel title, add custom classes, and control visibility using display widget logic option!</p>
<h4>🛠️ ELEMENTOR PAGE BUILDER READY</h4>
<p>Extend Widget Options’ visibility restrictions on elementor widgets! You can now have the same widget management features available to your Elementor-powered websites.</p>
<h4>🛠️ BEAVER BUILDER PLUGIN READY</h4>
<p>Widget Options now comes with Beaver Builder plugin integration – integrated for a smooth website building workflow. You can fully manage each module in many ways you want!</p>
<h4>🛠️ ADVANCED CUSTOM FIELDS (ACF) SUPPORT</h4>
<p>Easily show or hide any widget using your ACF fields and conditions. You can create restrictions on your widgets with the following conditions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Equal To</li>
<li>Not Equal To</li>
<li>Contains</li>
<li>Does Not Contain</li>
<li>Is Empty</li>
<li>Is Not Empty</li>
</ul>
<p>The ACF function is also available for Elementor and Beaver Builder.</p>
<h3>UPGRADE TO THE WIDGET OPTIONS EXTENDED PLUGIN</h3>
<p>Turn Widget Options into an even more flexible widget area manager. Upgrade to <a href="http://widget-options.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Widget Options Extended</a> today!</p>
<h4>✨ PREMIUM FEATURES ✨</h4>
<ul>
<li>NEW: Unlock more features for Gutenberg widgets and blocks (pages, posts and other custom post types)</li>
<li>NEW: Widget visibility for author’s contents and archive page</li>
<li>Inherit page parent visibility</li>
<li>NEW: Filter multiple pages by keyword-containing slug</li>
<li>Target URLs and wildcard restrictions</li>
<li>Clone widgets</li>
<li>Custom widget links</li>
<li>Advanced widget visibility control by user role</li>
<li>Sticky / fixed WordPress widgets</li>
<li>Custom widget columns display</li>
<li>NEW: Widget visibility per days and date range (+ option to ignore year)</li>
<li>Custom WordPress widget styling</li>
<li>Widget cache</li>
<li>Extended taxonomy and terms support</li>
<li>Display sidebars and widgets using shortcodes</li>
<li>Disable any WordPress widgets</li>
<li>Permission options (control who can edit widget settings based on user role)</li>
</ul>
<p>👉👉 Check out the full list of <a href="http://widget-options.com/features/" rel="nofollow ugc">Widget Options Extended features here</a>.</p>
<h3>ADD-ONS</h3>
<p>Check out the <a href="https://widget-options.com/features/modal-pop-up-and-sliding-widget-options/" rel="nofollow ugc">Sliding Widget Options</a> add-on! Transform any of your widgets into:</p>
<ul>
<li>A modal pop-up</li>
<li>A slide in/toaster</li>
<li>A chat box</li>
<li>…any other animated sliding panel you can think of to increase your website’s user engagement!</li>
</ul>
<h3>CONTACT AND CREDITS</h3>
<p>Widget Options for WordPress is regularly maintained and developed by the <a href="https://widget-options.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Widget Options Team</a>.</p>
<p>We work hard to keep Widget Options up-to-date and expanding, to make the most powerful widget and block manager on WordPress even more, well… powerful! 💪</p>
<p>If you would like to contribute, report issues or have suggestions, you can find the development version on <a href="https://github.com/WidgetOptions/widget-options" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</p>
<p>You can also visit us at our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgKC5IAqoz4Q7nW0WzueQFw" rel="nofollow ugc">Youtube Channel</a>.</p>
<h3>Contact and Credits</h3>
<p>Widget Options for WordPress is maintained and developed by <a href="https://widget-options.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Widget Options Team</a>.</p>


Widget Options – Advanced Conditional Visibility for Gutenberg Blocks & Classic Widgets


I needed to hide specific widgets from specific pages and this plugin made it SUPER simple to do that. Thank you.


Saved me a lot of time

Widget Options gives you control over widgets and Gutenberg blocks across pages, posts, and custom post types to manage content visibility.

Find Blocks, Patterns & Shortcodes vs Widget Options – Advanced Conditional Visibility for Gutenberg Blocks & Classic Widgets