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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<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>
<p>Support is added block by block. In this version, responsive controls are available for:</p>
<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>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<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.

George Nicolaou

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<p>Who can benefit from the plugin GM Adaptive CSS Grid Columns? (Short: GM Grid)<br />
The plugin is made to help everyone who wants to have an easy, lightweight and worry-free solution to set up a maximum grid count on their website.<br />
Of course, you can have fewer columns as those you have defined. They will automatically take the right percentage like 33.3%, 50% or even 100% of the available width.</p>
<h3>Do I have to know CSS?</h3>
<p>Absolutely not! Especially beginners and non-coders will start to love this plugin soon.</p>
<h3>Hold on, not another plugin, what happens to my page speed?</h3>
<p>Don’t panic, we took care of this by keeping this plugin lightweight and the CSS is minified by default.</p>
<h3>Important Notice:</h3>
<p>The plugin only works if you correctly identify and target the parent, and it’s direct child elements. Otherwise, the plugin can’t work.<br />
Recommended page builder are Bricks, Oxygen and Breakdance.</p>
<h3>How to use:</h3>
<p>The setup is quite simple. Basically, you just add two CSS classes to your elements and the plugin does the magic for you.<br />
Make sure to add the following classes to the container and direct child elements. Use a DIV instead of a section, container, or block<br />
to avoid conflicting predefined styles.</p>
<p>Parent/Container Element class: grid-container<br />
Child Element class: grid-item</p>
<p>Additionally, there is one more CSS class available. By using grid-center on your parent (container) element, you achieve three things.<br />
1. The container will be centred on the page<br />
2. Add your desired width (in rem)<br />
3. Add horizontal spacing across all break points</p>
<h3>Minimum Setup:</h3>
<ol>
<li>Define the maximum column count for your medium and large screen size.</li>
<li>Add the desired gap size (in rem)</li>
<li>Define the medium and large breakpoint (in em).<br />
Save!</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Quick overview of GM Adaptive CSS Grid Columns by <a href="https://websquadron.co.uk/" rel="nofollow ugc">Imran Siddiq</a></strong></p>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lDibIKlmyv4?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<p>GM Adaptive CSS Grid Column can be used in these different languages thanks to the following translators:</p>
<ul>
<li>Afrikaans <a href="https://www.georgenicolaou.me/" rel="nofollow ugc">George Nicolaou</a></li>
<li>German <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/picsta/" rel="nofollow ugc">Michael Kellersmann</a></li>
<li>Greek <a href="https://www.georgenicolaou.me/" rel="nofollow ugc">George Nicolaou</a></li>
</ul>


GM Adaptive CSS Grid Columns


This is an awesome plugin especially with a page builder like bricks / breakdance, etc. to easily and quickly bring in the use of CSS grid. This is how it should be implemented and find using GM grid a real time saver. 😎 


Very easy to use and implement Grid CSS

Allows you to create Adaptive CSS Grid Columns

Responsive Block Controls vs GM Adaptive CSS Grid Columns