Marie Comet

Lock Reusable Blocks in the editor to avoid unintentional global changes. 
Editing reusable blocks in posts is locked, and you have access to two actions when you select a reusable block in the editor: 
– Edit the reusable block (opens the block editing page in a new tab) 
– Convert to regular blocks (native action)
Options are availables in Settings > Writing screen to hide Edit and Convert reusable blocks buttons in block overlay.

Lock Reusable Blocks

All plugins should be like this. Simple one job plugins that do one thing well. I follow this philosophy in my own plugins and it is good to see others doing the same.

Good plugin


This should be a feature of WP and not a plugin. It's really useful for building large sites and not having clients mess them up afterward due to the ability to edit useable blocks.


Should be a feature of WP and not a plugin


This plugin doesn't get enough attention. THIS is the way reusable blocks are supposed to work. Letting the user know what they are doing: editing the reusable block side wide, or just editing a single instance. Clean, simple, obvious. Couldn't be better!



I have been following the problems with reusable blocks for years now. On Github there seems to be a consensus that this issue is somehow resolved since block locking became a feature. But still, it is way too easy to accidentally edit reusable blocks in an unintended way, even with WP 6.2. Actually it used to be good when Gutenberg just released. Back then, reusable blocks where one of the few features that they completely nailed from the start. Why this was changed in such a bad way, is a complete mystery to me.



Thanks for writing this essential plugin. Hope it makes it into core!


This is the way reusable blocks should work by default

Whodunit

Jb Audras

Rachel Peter

Extend Gutenberg Reusable Blocks feature with a complete admin panel, widgets, shortcodes and PHP functions.
This plugin extends the Reusable Blocks admin interface and provides few fancy features:
<ul>
<li>Add Reusable Blocks dashboard informations</li>
<li>Activate Reusable Blocks admin screen</li>
<li>Provide a list of Posts where each Reusable Block is used and the date it was last modified</li>
<li>Provide a live preview of your reusable blocks from the Reusable Blocks admin screen, with your theme stylesheets</li>
<li>Provide a Reusable Blocks Widget to use your block anywhere you want in your theme’s widgets areas</li>
<li>Provide a Reusable Blocks Shortcode to use your block anywhere you want in your Post types (even if they use the Classic Editor rather than Gutenberg!)</li>
<li>
Provide some Reusable Blocks PHP functions to use your block anywhere you want in your theme even
</li>
<li>
NEW: An easy tool to convert reusable blocks to block patterns in one click!
</li>
</ul>
For a full presentation of Reusable Blocks Extended, see this <a href="https://jeanbaptisteaudras.com/en/2019/12/gutenberg-reusable-blocks-wordcamp-marseille-talk-synthesis/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordCamp Talk synthesis available on my blog</a>.

Reusable Blocks Extended

Great plugin, it allows to edit reusable blocks, convert them to patterns and add them anywhere into the site.
Thank you for this plugin!

Block patterns to sidebar! That's what I was looking for

Hi, I wanna say a big thank you for this awesome plugin. It solves a lot of problem I was facing with reusable block and i think a lot of the features of this plugin should be embedded in the core.

Great job!!!

Great job

Very nice. I was just looking for a quick solution to pull up the reusable blocks CPT to echo out in the theme and found this gem.

Now I have a reason to use reusable blocks!

Extend Gutenberg Reusable Blocks feature with a complete admin panel, widgets, shortcodes and PHP functions.

Lock Reusable Blocks vs Reusable Blocks Extended