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Shed Editor Assist enhances the Gutenberg block editor experience with visual aids that make layout structure clearer.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Layout Borders — dashed outlines on Columns, Column, Group, and Spacer blocks so you can see structure at a glance</li>
<li>Block Color Coding — each block type gets a distinct border color (paragraph, heading, image, list, buttons)</li>
<li>Grab Markers — a ⠿ handle at the top-left corner of each block for quick drag-and-drop reordering</li>
<li>Backspace / Delete Protection — prevents accidental block deletion or column-merge when the cursor is at the start or end of a block (both keys protected)</li>
</ul>
All features are editor-only. Nothing is added to the frontend.
Each feature can be toggled independently under Settings > Shed Editor Assist. Border style (dashed / solid), width, and base color are also configurable.
Optional paid add-ons are available at https://wpshed.jp.

Shed Editor Assist

Gutenberg block editor visual aids: layout borders, block color coding, grab markers, and Backspace/Delete key protection.

Bamboo Manchester

This plugin provides several shortcodes for organising your content into multi-column layouts. It supports two, three and four column layouts and allows for content to span multiple columns if required.
Usage
Insert the required shortcodes into your content as follows:
2 column layout:
<pre><code> [column-half-1]
 First column of content
 [/column-half-1]
 [column-half-2]
 Second column of content
 [/column-half-2]
</code></pre>
3 column layout:
<pre><code> [column-third-1]
 First column of content
 [/column-third-1]
 [column-third-2]
 Second column of content
 [/column-third-2]
 [column-third-3]
 Third column of content
 [/column-third-3]
</code></pre>
4 Column layout:
<pre><code> [column-quarter-1]
 First column of content
 [/column-quarter-1]
 [column-quarter-2]
 Second column of content
 [/column-quarter-2]
 [column-quarter-3]
 Third column of content
 [/column-quarter-3]
 [column-quarter-4]
 Fourth column of content
 [/column-quarter-4]
</code></pre>
If you want content to span multiple columns you can combine the shortcodes to create a column spans multiple spaces, for example:
<pre><code> 1 Third / 2 Thirds

 [column-third-1]
 First column of content
 [/column-third-1]
 [column-third-2-3]
 Second column of content that spans the second and third columns
 [/column-third-2-3]

 1 Quarter / 2 Quarters / 1 Quarter

 [column-quarter-1]
 First column of content
 [/column-quarter-1]
 [column-quarter-2-3]
 Second column of content that spans the second and third columns
 [/column-quarter-2-3]
 [column-quarter-4]
 Third column of content that occupies the fourth quarter column
 [/column-quarter-4]
</code></pre>
If you need to embed a set of columns within a column, you can do so by adding ‘inner-‘ to the shortcode as follows:
<pre><code> [column-half-1]
 Some Text
 [inner-column-half-1]
 Some more text
 [/inner-column-half-1]
 [inner-column-half-2]
 Even more text
 [/inner-column-half-2]
 [/column half 1]
 [column-half-2]
 The final text
 [/column-half-2]
</code></pre>
You can also change the background colour of a colour by adding an attribute to the shortcode as follows:
<pre><code> [column-half-1 background="e8e8e8"]
</code></pre>

Bamboo Columns

This plugin provides several shortcodes for organising your content into multi-column layouts. It supports two, three and four column layouts.

Shed Editor Assist vs Bamboo Columns