Block Enhancements
Block Enhancements – Extended styling for the Block Editor
by Phi Phan · WordPress.org page · Website
Block Enhancements has 800+ active installs on WordPress.org and 13,048 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 16, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Block Enhancements at a glance
Is Block Enhancements well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Add icons to buttons, headings, lists, navigation blocks (built-in 3000+ icon library or custom SVGs)
- Set responsive dimensions: padding, margin, and block spacing per device
- Adjust responsive typography: font size, weight, line height, letter spacing per device
- Apply 2D transforms (translate, rotate, skew, scale) per device with hover styles
- Add box-shadow and text-shadow with hover state styles
- Customize text and background colors with hover styles
- Control responsive text alignment for Group, Columns, and Column blocks
- Use transitions for smooth hover style changes
- Define responsive CSS positions (relative, absolute, sticky, static) with custom offsets
Block Enhancements reviews and ratings
8 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
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Must Have Essential Enhancement to Gutenberg Blocks
Update:After my initial review, later versions of the plugin offers pretty much what I hope for but lacking in Gutenberg blocks - responsive dimensions settings, positioning, and many others. I believe that if you can extend the capabilities of native Gutenberg blocks, you don't really other third party page builder plugins that add 80 more blocks you don't use with code bloat in your WP editor. Also just as awesome is the feature management screen where you can granularly assign certain features to certain blocks to optimize for only what you need. Perfect! Five stars! Thanks for the great work, Phi. - This plugin is a great idea and I really want to like it. However, it leaves a few things out much to be desired. Gutenberg blocks lack responsive features severely. I was hoping this plugin can fill in the big gaps but it doesn't. I'm not seeing anything from this plugin for setting dimensions for various screen sizes. Under typography, it doesn't offer any more that Gutenberg native settings. There's Responsive Text Alignment feature but I'm not seeing any settings in block control panel. Other features Block Enhancements offers, shadow, transform, transitions, position are more advanced features you don't really need that often.
Skylabb -
Doesn't Work Consistently
I've been playing with this plugin and it doesn't seem to work consistently across all breakpoints. Sometimes a setting applied on mobile also applies on desktop. Sometimes the setting has no effect at all regardless of the breakpoint being set. Custom styling breakpoint is the only thing holding me back from going all in with WordPress.
mliving -
Excellent Plugin
Thank you for that plugin - it's so useful and just works. I really like your approach. Keep it up.
Michael Galli -
Excellent idea and works great
I've followed this plugin for a while and have long thought it was a great idea. It's also executed perfectly! It has sensible default options set, but I love that it gives you control over which blocks get the enhancements. With even more power and flexibility in core blocks now, this plugin is even more useful today. Without making this plugin too bloated, maybe the one nice thing to add would be the ability to "stretch" your links so the entire block is clickable. This is really needed for Group, Cover, and similar blocks and unfortunately this feature is still missing from these core blocks.
onetrev -
This is a gem!
This plugin extends Gutenberg blocks in the most organic way! No bloatware, no heavy dependencies, just adds the missing features to the existing Gutenberg blocks using the existing UI. One of my favorite Gutenberg plugins to date!
Timofey Drozhzhin -
Fanctastic addon for core Gutenberg blocks
Great plugin. I request you to remove the presets, they are not useful and good looking.
illartista
Details
Add icon, responsive spacing, typography, alignment, shadow, transform, transition, color, hover style to blocks. Lightweight, fast, and clean.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Tags
- blocks
- button
- hover
- icon
- responsive
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- Version
- 1.2.12
- Last updated
- Aug 16, 2026
- First published
- Apr 9, 2022
- Requires WordPress
- 6.5
- Tested up to
- 7.1
- Requires PHP
- 7.0
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Block Enhancements FAQ
What does Block Enhancements do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Block Enhancements offers Add icons to buttons, headings, lists, navigation blocks (built-in 3000+ icon library or custom SVGs), Set responsive dimensions: padding, margin, and block spacing per device, Adjust responsive typography: font size, weight, line height, letter spacing per device, Apply 2D transforms (translate, rotate, skew, scale) per device with hover styles and Add box-shadow and text-shadow with hover state styles.
How many active installs does Block Enhancements have?
WordPress.org reports 800+ active installs for Block Enhancements as of September 7, 2026.
Is Block Enhancements still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on August 16, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Is Block Enhancements free?
Block Enhancements is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.