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Responsive Block Controls adds practical responsive controls to supported native Gutenberg blocks. Adjust layouts, spacing, column widths, Query Loop grids, Gallery columns, and Spacer heights without replacing core blocks or moving content into a page builder.
Native WordPress blocks are fast, portable, and theme-friendly, but responsive layout tweaks often still require custom CSS, duplicated blocks, or a full page builder. This plugin keeps your content in native blocks and adds the missing breakpoint controls directly in the block inspector.
<h3>Why use it?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add responsive controls to supported native Gutenberg blocks.</li>
<li>Keep existing core blocks, patterns, synced patterns, reusable blocks, and template parts.</li>
<li>Avoid extra builder markup, shortcodes, and content lock-in.</li>
<li>Adjust columns, gaps, custom widths, order, Query Loop grids, Gallery layouts, and Spacer heights from the editor sidebar.</li>
<li>Preserve desktop behavior and theme spacing defaults unless you override them.</li>
<li>Remove the plugin without breaking the saved content structure.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supported blocks</h3>
Support is added block by block. In this version, responsive controls are available for:
<ul>
<li><code>core/columns</code> — responsive column counts, gap controls, and custom-width mode.</li>
<li><code>core/column</code> — per-breakpoint width and order controls when custom-width mode is enabled on the parent Columns block.</li>
<li><code>core/post-template</code> inside Query Loop — manual column controls, auto-fit minimum width, responsive gaps, and optional Masonry for supported fixed-column grids.</li>
<li><code>core/gallery</code> — responsive columns and gap controls while keeping the native Gallery block.</li>
<li><code>core/spacer</code> — tablet and mobile height overrides while keeping the native desktop Spacer height.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How it works</h3>
The plugin stores settings as native block attributes and renders a small set of CSS classes and custom properties. It does not register replacement layout blocks and does not wrap your content in custom frontend markup.
Your theme stays in control of the base layout. Responsive Block Controls only applies supported responsive values at the configured breakpoints. If the plugin is removed, WordPress ignores the extra attributes and the blocks fall back to their normal core behavior.
<h3>Editor experience</h3>
<ul>
<li>Responsive controls appear only when the selected block is supported.</li>
<li>Breakpoint tabs follow desktop, tablet, and mobile editing workflows.</li>
<li>Smaller breakpoints inherit from larger breakpoints until you override them.</li>
<li>Gap controls support <code>px</code>, <code>rem</code>, and <code>em</code> values with predictable reset behavior.</li>
<li>Custom-width Columns layouts support per-column width and simple order controls.</li>
<li>Query Loop grids support manual columns, auto-fit minimum width, and Masonry guidance where available.</li>
<li>Spacer height can be customized for tablet and mobile previews.</li>
<li>Theme spacing defaults are detected when possible.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Accessibility and localization</h3>
<ul>
<li>Inspector controls are keyboard accessible and labeled for screen readers.</li>
<li>Strings are translation-ready via the <code>responsive-columns</code> text domain.</li>
</ul>

Responsive Block Controls

Add responsive layout and spacing controls to native Gutenberg blocks — no custom blocks or builder lock-in.

Themeover

NOTE: This plugin was originally created to solve the issue of splitting classic editor content into divs, using shortcodes. On Sept 27th, 2022, I tested to see how this plugin works with Gutenberg and it actually still works fine (because the divs are rendered AFTER Gutenberg does it’s thing). But it’s worth mentioning that there is a Group block in Gutenberg that serves the same purpose, and might be more intuitive than working with shortcodes for some users. That said, if you’ve disabled Gutenberg in favour of the classic editor, this plugin is still useful. And although I’m not adding new features, I will fix any bugs people report.
Now on to how it actually works:
Separate your WordPress post or page content into divs with (optional) custom CSS classes and ids. Adding the shortcode [divup] in between some content will split the content into 2 separate divs.
You can enter as many [divup] shortcodes to a post or page as you like. Great for creating columns of content for magazine style websites while keeping shortcode markup to an absolute minimum. DivUp Content never uses inline styles, but it does automatically give divs fiendishly clever classes like first, last, div-1, div-2, div-3, and div-odd, div-even, mul-3, mul-4 (multiple of 1,2,3,4 etc). You can then create your own style rules for the divs in style.css or with <a href="http://themeover.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Microthemer</a> (a visual design CSS plugin for customizing WordPress sites).
<h4>3 Column Example CSS</h4>
The CSS for a 3 column layout could be:
.divup-wrap { 
 display: grid; 
 grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr); 
}
<h4>6 Column Example CSS</h4>
For a 6 column layout (with gaps), you would just change the CSS to:
.divup-wrap { 
 display: grid; 
 grid-template-columns: repeat(6, 1fr); 
 gap: 2rem; 
}
For more complex grid layouts with content spanning different numbers of columns and rows, you may find <a href="http://themeover.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Microthemer</a>‘s visual controls for generating the CSS grid rules quite handy. Just select the .divup-wrap element when editing with Microthemer, and then position the grid items however you like using drag and drop.
<h3>Features added</h3>
NEWEST: 
Added support for adding custom HTML attributes to divs/spans. Use [startwrap custom=’title: read this’] or [divup custom=”data-src:image.jpg”] (the custom attribute can be applied to both [startwrap] and [divup] shortcodes. 
You can also do[startwrap custom=’title: read this|required:some value’] (seperate with a | pipe character for multiple) 
When using [divup], two divs will be created. To apply custom attributes to the first and second divs use a comma e.g.[divup custom=”data-src:image1.jpg, data-src:image2.jpg”]
NEWER: 
Added support for span elements. Use [startwrap type=’span’]. 
Added support for no superfluous child elements. Use [startwrap parent=0] or [startwrap parent=’false’].
NEW: You can also add multiple [startwrap] and [endwrap] shortcodes to control how the divs are wrapped in a wrapper div. This overrides the original auto-wrapper functionality if you choose to use it.**
The best way to understand how DivUp Content works (including the advanced aspects) is to **copy and paste the ONE of the following dummy content examples below into a post or page and then inspect the html with your browser (Right-click > Inpsect) ** – paying attention to the CSS classes it automatically applies to the divs.
<h3>Dummy Content 1</h3>
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup id=’id-a, id-b’ class=’class-a, class-b class-b2′]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup class=’my-class diff ‘]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup id=’my-id’ class=’diff my-class2′]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup class=’diff’]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
<h3>Dummy Content 2</h3>
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[startwrap class=”my-wrap-class another-wrap-class”]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup id=’id-a, id-b’ class=’class-a, class-b class-b2′]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[endwrap]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[startwrap id=”my-wrap-id” class=”hello-wrap”]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup class=’my-class diff ‘]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup id=’my-id’ class=’diff my-class2′]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup class=’diff’]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[divup]
Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page. Some content on this page.
[endwrap]

DivUp Content

Simple and very useful. I initially had a minor issue with WP 4.4.1, but this was immediately fixed. Thanks to the author for being so reactive!



Perfect

Wrap divs around classic editor content using divup shortcodes. Also works for Gutenberg, but you may prefer to use the group block.

Responsive Block Controls vs DivUp Content