Groundworx

Groundworx Navigation is a powerful responsive navigation block for WordPress block themes. Build professional navigation menus, mobile-responsive hamburger menus, modal overlays, dropdown navigation, and sticky headers—all with native Gutenberg blocks. No coding required.
Perfect for theme.json block themes, this navigation block gives you complete control over your site’s header navigation, mobile menu behavior, and responsive breakpoints.
<h4>Why Choose Groundworx Navigation?</h4>
Replace complex navigation plugins with a native Gutenberg block solution. Whether you need a simple navigation bar, mobile hamburger menu, full-screen modal overlay, or off-canvas slide-in drawer—Groundworx Navigation handles it all.
Perfect for: 
* Block theme developers building custom navigation headers 
* Sites requiring mobile-first responsive navigation menus 
* Accessibility-focused WordPress navigation 
* Portfolio and business sites with sticky navigation headers 
* Multi-level navigation structures and deep site menus
<h4>Key Features</h4>
Native Gutenberg Navigation Block 
Build your navigation menu entirely in the WordPress Block Editor—no shortcodes, no legacy menu screens, just blocks.
Four Responsive Layout Templates 
 – Modal Navigation – Full-screen overlay menu for mobile devices 
 – Modal Dropdown – Dropdown header navigation on desktop, modal on mobile 
 – Slide-In Navigation – Off-canvas drawer navigation from right edge 
 – Classic Navigation – Traditional navigation bar with hamburger menu collapse
Multiple Menu Display Styles 
Accordion menus · Accordion Alt · List navigation · Vertical menus · Horizontal navigation bars — mix and match with any layout template.
Smart Responsive Behavior 
Set responsive breakpoints (<code>tablet</code>, <code>laptop</code>, <code>desktop</code>, <code>large-desktop</code>) and watch your navigation automatically collapse to a hamburger menu or modal overlay at your chosen screen size.
Flexible Position Controls 
Relative, Sticky Header, Fixed Navigation, or Scroll-Up Reveal—create sticky navigation headers without writing custom CSS.
Accessibility-First Navigation 
Built-in focus traps, ESC key close, arrow-key navigation, and proper ARIA attributes make your menu accessible by default.
Branding Integration 
Add Site Logo, Site Title, or Site Tagline blocks anywhere in your navigation header for seamless branding.
Lightweight & Fast 
No jQuery bloat. Powered by WordPress’s native Interactivity API with vanilla JavaScript—no external libraries needed for responsive navigation.
Submenu Controls 
* Control nesting depth (1-5 levels) for complex navigation structures 
* Indent or flatten submenu display 
* Hover or click to open dropdown submenus 
* Icon controls for submenu indicators
<h4>Navigation Templates In Detail</h4>
Modal Navigation 
Perfect for mobile-first sites. Creates a full-screen overlay navigation menu that slides in from the top or side. Ideal for clean, distraction-free mobile navigation.
Modal Dropdown Navigation 
Best of both worlds: traditional dropdown navigation on desktop, modal overlay on mobile devices. Great for sites with many navigation items.
Slide-In Navigation 
Off-canvas navigation drawer that slides in from the right edge. Popular for modern web apps and mobile-optimized sites.
Classic Navigation 
Traditional horizontal navigation bar that collapses to a hamburger menu icon on smaller screens. The most familiar navigation pattern for users.
<h4>Block Theme Ready</h4>
Groundworx Navigation is built specifically for theme.json block themes. Works perfectly with: 
* Twenty Twenty-Four 
* Twenty Twenty-Five 
* Blockbase 
* Frost 
* Any FSE (Full Site Editing) block theme
Note: Requires a theme.json-ready block theme. Not compatible with classic PHP themes.

Groundworx Navigation – Responsive Menu & Mobile Navigation Block

Responsive navigation menu block for WordPress block themes. Build mobile menus, hamburger navigation, modal overlays, dropdown menus & sticky hea …

iansvo

This block allows you to add an additional block content area to a site-editor template and store the block output inside a meta field. By default, WordPress posts or pages may only store blocks in one place: post_content. These blocks are output on the page using the core/post-content block. This block allows you to have multiple “outlets” where you can add blocks so you can have post-specific blocks appear in more than one location in the template.
The block is a fork of the core/post-content block that uses a customized version of the useEntityBlockEditor hook which supports meta keys. The blocks for your content area are then stored inside that meta key (instead of post_content). This allows you to keep the blocks separate and you can use as many of these on a single template as you want (but in most cases 2 is probably enough). It’s all up to you!
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ol>
<li>Using this plugin requires you to enable template previews (which will let you visually see the new content area you’re adding). This can be enabled on any given post or page, but you can optionally set it on by default using a filter.</li>
<li>Your theme must be a block theme (i.e. it uses the site editor). This won’t work for a hybrid or classic theme (which has no concept of live template preview in the block editor).</li>
</ol>
<h3>Hooks</h3>
If you want to disable this meta key’s registration, add the following to your theme or plugin:
<pre><code><?php
add_filter( 'content_area_block_register_default_meta', '__return_false' );
</code></pre>
For advanced users, there is also a filter for the entire block’s output. See the below snippet from render.php:
<pre><code><?php
/**
 * Filter the block's frontend output.
 *
 * @param string $parsed_content The parsed block content for output.
 * @param int $block_post_id The current post ID the block is displaying in.
 * @param array $attributes The block attributes.
 * @param string $content The original unparsed block content.
 * @param object $block The current parsed block object.
 *
 * @return The block content for output on the frontend.
 */
$output = apply_filters( 
 'content_area_block_content', 
 do_blocks( str_replace( ']]>', ']]&gt;', $content ) ), 
 $block_post_id, 
 $attributes, 
 $content, 
 $block 
);
</code></pre>
<h3>Contributing</h3>
The plugin source code may be found here: https://github.com/iansvo/content-area-block.
To build the plugin from source, you must have NodeJS (v24+) installed.
Setup Steps:
<ol>
<li>Navigate to the project folder in your terminal.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm i</code> to install dependencies.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm run build</code> to performn the initial build.</li>
</ol>
If you’re using wp-env to run the plugin… 
1. Run <code>npm run wp-env start</code> to start the docker container. 
2. Run <code>npm run start</code> to watch for file changes.

Content Area Block

Adds a block content area to a site editor template and stores the blocks in a specified meta field. By default, the plugin will add a new meta field  …

Groundworx Navigation – Responsive Menu & Mobile Navigation Block vs Content Area Block