Anchor Block

Name: Anchor Block
Rating: 4.1 (8 reviews)
Author: Jb Audras

by Jb Audras · WordPress.org page · Website

v0.1 Tested up to WP 7.1 PHP 7.0+

Anchor Block has 2,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 19,552 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on August 28, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Active installs

2,000+

Total downloads

19,552

Downloads, last 30 days

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available after 30 days of tracking

30-day growth

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tracking since September 4, 2026

Is Anchor Block well maintained?

Support threads resolved

No open threads

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WordPress compatibility

Current

tested up to WordPress 7.1, the current release is 7.1

Anchor Block reviews and ratings

8 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.

All reviews

4.1 out of 5

8 reviews

5★: 5
4★: 1
3★: 1
2★: 0
1★: 1

Nov 13, 2022

User friendly and helpful

Love this plugin, this plugin helped me with my project. Thanks a lot!

Sue Steinberg
Mar 12, 2022

Interferes with Tabs

Just a warning: This plugin causes tabs created by another plugin to be treated as anchors, causing the page to jump whenever a tab is clicked. Unfortunately, this pushes the tabs just off the top of the screen, and with vertical tabs hides the top of the text contained in the tab. TRhis makes the tabs pretty much unusable, so you have to choose which plugin is most important and dump the other.

wp-MeMeMe
Jun 5, 2020

So Needed Thanks

When I started working in WP, I as totally surprised anchors were so restricted and frustrated. This solves that problem simply and straightforwardly.

jeffz8
Jun 1, 2020

What I miss...

...a list of already defined anchors to speed up entering the correct destination link in (for example) a button.

albertgorlee
May 24, 2020

AWESOME! AWESOME! AWESOME!

Such a simple yet INGENIOUS little plugin that elegantly solves a bugger of an issue with Gutenberg WordPress... inserting "Anchors" (i.e. Page Jumps) into pages. As someone who can edit HTML code quite well, I find it awkward how WordPress makes it to add "anchors" to any place in a document OTHER THAN Headers (Gutenberg has this built in, but JUST for headers). Trying to add the HTML code id="xyz" to anywhere else (text, pictures, etc) forces you to convert the block to pure HTML, thereby losing the block editing structure for all else related to that particular block. So now you have to work with BOTH Block and HTML content on a single page. There is no way to just add the HTML "id code" and keep the existing Gutenberg Block editing structure for all other aspects of the paragraph or picture. Trust me, if I wanted to work in HTML, I would. But there are reasons why I use WordPress and this one caveat of forcing mixed editing styles is just dysfunctional. Enter Gutenberg Anchor BLock! Simply add it to your page, just as you would any other block, just above where you want an anchor point, enter a unique name for the anchor, and voila... you're DONE! A genius of an idea for which the developer, Jean-Baptiste Audras, should get royalties when it becomes a built-in of the next Gutenberg update. See, it truly IS the little things in life that make you the happiest!

pjsorell
Apr 2, 2020

Nice anchor link integration, but...

This is a nice method to integrate anchor links in gutenberg editor. However the top spacing is sadly not working for me. I'm using the Astra theme. I placed the anchor block just before a heading

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