marksabbath

StudioPress

WP Engine

John Parris

Nick C

Ryan Kienstra

Jen Baumann

Phil Johnston

Mike McAlister

Michael Day

atomicblocks

<p>Genesis Blocks is a collection of page building blocks for the Gutenberg block editor. Building pages with the block editor and Genesis Blocks gives you more control to quickly create and launch any kind of site you want!</p>
<p>Installing the customizable Genesis Blocks plugin adds a collection of beautiful, site-building blocks to help you customize page layouts, increase engagement, and get results for your business. Genesis Blocks provides everything from customizable buttons, to beautifully-designed page sections and full-page layout designs via the Section & Layout block.</p>
<p>Along with the blocks themselves, Genesis Blocks extends the content creation experience by providing a library of page sections and full-page layouts, all available from within the block editor.</p>
<h3>Create compelling content faster.</h3>
<p>Create and use content quickly with prebuilt and custom content sections and full-page layouts.</p>
<h3>Enhance the Gutenberg editor.</h3>
<p>Additional content blocks and the layout selector make it easy to get the most value out of the block-based editor.</p>
<h3>Genesis Blocks currently includes the following blocks to help you build content and pages quickly and effortlessly:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Section & Layout Block</li>
<li>Advanced Columns Block</li>
<li>Newsletter Block</li>
<li>Pricing Block</li>
<li>Post Grid Block</li>
<li>Container Block</li>
<li>Testimonial Block</li>
<li>Inline Notice Block</li>
<li>Accordion Block</li>
<li>Share Icons Block</li>
<li>Call-To-Action Block</li>
<li>Spacer & Divider Block</li>
<li>Author Profile Block</li>
<li>Drop Cap Block</li>
</ul>
<p>Breaking change: The Genesis Blocks Button block is deprecated in favor of the Core Buttons block.</p>
<p>When you open the block editor, this will automatically convert your Genesis Blocks Button blocks to the Core Buttons block.</p>
<p>This will not convert Button blocks if you don’t open the block editor.</p>
<p>You might see some styling changes, especially if you have custom styling for classes other than ‘gb-block-button’.</p>
<h3>Do more with Genesis Pro</h3>
<p>For those wanting to level-up with Genesis Blocks, a Genesis Pro subscription brings even richer tooling and a bigger library of sections and layouts.</p>
<ul>
<li>2 new blocks</li>
<li>26 pre-built full-page layouts</li>
<li>56 pre-built sections</li>
<li>Save & reuse your own sections & layouts</li>
<li>Advanced block-level user permissions</li>
<li>Access to and support for Genesis Framework & all of our 35 StudioPress-made premium child themes.</li>
<li>Additional advanced features for the rest of the Genesis Product Suite</li>
</ul>
<p>Genesis Pro includes even more value for modern WordPress content creators, marketers, and developers. <a href="https://www.studiopress.com/genesis-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about Genesis Pro here</a>.</p>
<h3>Google AMP Support</h3>
<p>The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project is a publishing format created by Google to enhance site performance for mobile website users. AMP pages are specially designed for Google search users to quickly load website pages without using any extraneous data. Genesis Blocks has support for AMP built into each block!</p>
<h3>Help & Docs</h3>
<p>User and developer docs for Genesis Blocks <a href="https://developer.wpengine.com/genesis-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">can be found here</a>.</p>


Genesis Blocks

A user installed this plugin on my network without install_plugins capabilities via StudioPress's Genesis theme. Today, I got notified that a security fix had been committed for one of the plugins on my network.

I inspected the security fix, and practically, a user was permitted to install this backdoor. No wonder it got 100k+ installs while being a most obscure addition to WordPress.

The Genesis theme also installed a couple of Awesome Motive plugins via this, a company that goes against everything WordPress that I wouldn't dare to touch with a 10-foot cable. They do this via genesis_do_onboarding_pack_selection(), which checks for manage_options, not install_plugins or is_super_admin(), allowing anyone to hijack an open WordPress Multisite network.

I reported these security issues to them two years ago, but obviously, they still haven't been resolved. They show no care about your website.

Moreover, this plugin pollutes the global namespace with functions like is_heading() (without a namespace). I don't know who StudioPress is hiring nowadays, but the senior developers are long gone since its merger with WP Engine.

Amateurs. 

You shouldn't have ignored my previous calls, so enjoy this stain on your record.

Installed without consent, bad company

A collection of content blocks, sections, & full-page layouts for the block editor.

sonalsinha21

<p>SKT Blocks lets you use the default gutenberg editor and easily create creative websites within minutes with the help of the reusable blocks that can be used both in pages and posts.</p>
<p>SKT Blocks offers all round flexibility and is intuitive at the same time requires less plugin and is faster and user friendly.</p>
<p><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Check our Gutenberg blocks demos</a> and watch them in active live.</p>
<p>These advanced blocks come with host of advanced functionality and customization which make them easy to use and handle and edit them as per your requirements of color, width, font etc.</p>
<p>With more than 30 blocks at your perusal you can easily edit the existing themes created using them or add any suitable block as per your requirement to existing WordPress themes or websites supporting and created using the default editor.</p>
<p><strong>SKT Blocks Library</strong></p>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/advanced-column/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Columns  </a>: Advanced columns block lets you build amazing and customizable columns for a variety of uses like having different variations for testimonial or showing testimonial and team side by side. Different types of content can be shown in row and column with varying width and shapes and background using this block.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/section/" rel="nofollow ugc">Section </a>: Section block is of utmost importance for websites to differentiate different sections and layouts within a page with background and variety of content blocks within a section block.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/shape-divider/" rel="nofollow ugc">Shape-Divider </a>: Shape divider uses variety of shapes to have a nice way of distinction between content so that once one changes content and scrolls down between various sections shape dividers becomes handy to separate them. Easily customize them using this block.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/video-popup/" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Popup </a>: Popups always try to grab eyeballs and attention and in this case trying to have a video opened up in a pop-up window using this block.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/icon-list/" rel="nofollow ugc">Icon-List </a>: Icon list uses icons as well as stylised lists to create a nice way to have checklists, features lists or other types of highlighting services features and product descriptions. Design your own beautiful list using Icon-list block.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/button-group/" rel="nofollow ugc">Multi Buttons </a>: Multiple buttons can be needed to have call to action for features and services and buttons are always needed to have some action from the user like download, shop now, click here and so on. Multi buttons are desirable for every type of website and hence this block may help you with the desired functionalities of all shapes of buttons.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/advanced-heading/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Heading </a>: Headings are important to showcase a page or post heading and they can be easily managed as far as font size, typography and its width etc are concerned.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/call-to-action/" rel="nofollow ugc">Call-to-Action </a>: For sales or a leads friendly website it is important to focus on Call to action. Also for landing pages and marketing pages call to action is important. This block enables you to add CTA easily and efficiently.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/count-up/" rel="nofollow ugc">Count up </a>: Animated counting to show statistics like a persons knowledge or stats about installs, client projects or reviews gained online and similar things using numbers can be nicely shown using this block. Fully customizable.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/blockquote/" rel="nofollow ugc">Blockquote </a>:To showcase a quote by someone famous and to showcase quotes to understand the context of the whole article blockquote are important when it comes to articles and form an important part of descriptive text for blogging.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/accordion/" rel="nofollow ugc">Accordion </a>: Information displayed in rows which can be expanded and contracted and looks stylish. Also takes a lesser space than the whole area being listed in a lengthy way. Accordion block is configurable for this purpose.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/flip-box/" rel="nofollow ugc">Flip-Box </a>: Transformation effects box which showcases content with icons on the front and can hold similar or simple content on the backside. Many people use images on the front and write description of that image in the backside. Flip boxes are for engaging content for users.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/info-block/" rel="nofollow ugc">Info-Box </a>: Simple informative boxes for having displayed important information regarding ones business or features of a product or services and product listing etc can be done with the help of this useful info-box block.
</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/team/" rel="nofollow ugc">Team </a>: For any corporate or business website or any website in about us page the team members behind the business and the idea are showcased so that visitors know about the people behind them. Also the social profiles and their links for the team members is also important.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/image-box/" rel="nofollow ugc">Image Boxes </a>: Gallery boxes and showcasing portfolio for any company, model or event is necessary. Images as they say speak louder than words and hence this pictoral box is essential and is fully configurable.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/image-slider/" rel="nofollow ugc">Image Slider </a>: Images in a carousel format where one can scroll through them easily using this block.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/card/" rel="nofollow ugc">Card </a>: Personal details with image is what card does. Just like business card this is a personal card for users to showcase about them.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/masonry/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gallery Masonry </a>: Collage of images in a masonry block format. This block is to boost portfolio showcase.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/content-timeline/" rel="nofollow ugc">Content Timeline </a>: To create a visually stunning and nice showcase of content in a timeline of events this block has been created which is different than posts.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/testimonial/" rel="nofollow ugc">Testimonial </a>: Use the Testimonial block to display some amazing client reviews in a carousel layout.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/divider/" rel="nofollow ugc">Divider </a>: Division between sections and layout can be done easily using this divider block.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/expand/" rel="nofollow ugc">Expand More Block </a>: Small text can be shown and an more button which will explore more content. Beneficial for large content showcase where people can view the important content and if interested can click on more.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/pricing-list/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pricing List </a>: With the Gutenberg Pricing List block, design a beautiful and comprehensive pricing list of your goods, services and memberships.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/post-carousel/" rel="nofollow ugc">Post Carousel </a>: Similar to how images shown in a carousel or slider posts will be showcased in a carousel.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/post-grid/" rel="nofollow ugc">Post Grid </a>: The Post Grid block fetches the blog posts on your website and displays them in a grid layout. You can also customize the order of your posts, and manage settings like the featured image, content, etc.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/post-timeline/" rel="nofollow ugc">Post-Timeline </a>: This block showcases posts in a timeline format by showing historical events with image and knowing about the events in detail. Timeline is important for company history, events showcase etc.</li>
<li><a href="https://sktblocks.blazingthemes.com/pricing-table/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pricing table </a>: For any company with services or selling something it is important to showcase pricing of single product and multiple product or service offerings like hair salon etc with comparison for users to select the best price as per their budget and requirement.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>SKT Templates for Gutenberg</strong></p>
<p>We have already created SKT Templates for both Elementor and Gutenberg and are going to add more than 100+ templates within the same plugin and you can easily make use of those starter templates by just importing them and editing them using SKT Blocks.</p>


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