Gutenberg Essential Blocks — WordPress Page Builder Plugin
Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns
by WPDeveloper · WordPress.org page · Website
Gutenberg Essential Blocks has 200,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 9,670,392 downloads all time. It was downloaded 391,327 times in the last 30 days. The last update was on October 19, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.3.
Gutenberg Essential Blocks at a glance
Is Gutenberg Essential Blocks well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Accordion – Collapsible content panels to reduce scrolling
- Button – Modern buttons with hover effects
- Call To Action – Eye-catching call-to-action sections
- Countdown – Countdown timer to boost click-through rates
- Flipbox – Animated flip boxes to highlight content
- Infobox – Info boxes from predefined styles
- Notice – Notice/alert boxes for important information
- Pricing Table – Pricing tables that convert
- Social Icons – Share content across social media platforms
- Team Member – Feature your team members
- Testimonial – Showcase reviews to build credibility
- Progress Bar – Display task or skill progress
Gutenberg Essential Blocks reviews and ratings
216 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
216 reviews
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It’s a Wonderful Plugin!
I’ve been using Essential Blocks for a long time. Over the last 3–4 months, I’ve noticed that its development pace and the improvement of its blocks have been absolutely amazing. Essential Blocks is becoming an even more powerful and user-friendly page builder plugin. I really love this plugin. Thank you to the entire development team for your hard work and dedication!
irisagency -
Easy to Use and Full of Features
I have been using Essential Blocks and so far I am happy with it. It gives me many useful blocks and makes it easier to build pages without adding too much extra work. I especially like the different design options and the fact that I can control which blocks I want to use. It is a good choice if you are using Gutenberg and want more options than the default blocks. Overall, a useful plugin and worth trying.
SEO Coder -
Helpful and diligent at resolving issues
Had an issue where I could not get the blocks to update on the save version of a post/s — turned out to be a caching issue with Bunny.net which is a CDN and it was caching the CSS. While the support team did guess it was the issue, find the exact directory was resolve by Bunny.net themselves — so the solution was a team effort. But impressed they stuck with this and worked really hard to resolve it. Can recommend for the support alone.
Duffdaddy -
Great Plugin, Great Support
Great Plugin, Great Support. Thanks a million for your fantastic plugin and your great support.
NagaTheme -
Good support mechanism AI + human
The support mechanism is high quality. I get to talk tech with an AI that gives accurate guidance towards possible root causes, but as I push through with explanations as to why it is a non-possibility I got a person joining in who clearly understood the software and the complexities of the problem I was experiencing which related to interaction with flowplayer and challenges of managing the dynamically generated uploads/eb-styles/ dynamic css files within a caching architecture.
OnePressTech -
Great Blocks and Amazing Support
Support has been very helpful.
abbyvie
Download and install history
465,075 downloads over the last 48 days. Snapshots taken daily from WordPress.org.
Where Gutenberg Essential Blocks ranks on WordPress.org
The rankings we track that Gutenberg Essential Blocks appears in, and how its position changed over 30 days.
| Ranking | WordPress.org placement | Position | 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Page Builder Plugins | #19 in search, not tagged | #41 | ▲6 |
| Best Post Grid Plugins | #40 in search, not tagged | #72 | ▲12 |
| Best Mega Menu Plugins | #49 in search, not tagged | #85 | – |
Gutenberg Essential Blocks alternatives
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GutenKit 80,000+ installs · 4.5 -
Kadence Blocks 600,000+ installs · 4.8
Details
Gutenberg block editor with AI. 70+ Gutenberg blocks, patterns, WooCommerce blocks, post grid, gallery, menu with Gutenberg block library.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Tags
- block-editor
- Generate with AI
- gutenberg
- Gutenberg Templates
- Gutenberg WooCommerce
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- Version
- 6.5.1
- Last updated
- Oct 19, 2026
- First published
- Dec 9, 2018
- Requires WordPress
- 5.8
- Tested up to
- 7.1.3
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Gutenberg Essential Blocks FAQ
What does Gutenberg Essential Blocks do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Gutenberg Essential Blocks offers Accordion – Collapsible content panels to reduce scrolling, Button – Modern buttons with hover effects, Call To Action – Eye-catching call-to-action sections, Countdown – Countdown timer to boost click-through rates and Flipbox – Animated flip boxes to highlight content.
How many active installs does Gutenberg Essential Blocks have?
WordPress.org reports 200,000+ active installs for Gutenberg Essential Blocks as of October 22, 2026.
Is Gutenberg Essential Blocks still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on October 19, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.3.
Does Gutenberg Essential Blocks have good support?
On the WordPress.org forum, 2 of 3 recent support threads for Gutenberg Essential Blocks are marked resolved. That is the developer's free support; a paid version usually comes with its own channel.
Is Gutenberg Essential Blocks free?
Gutenberg Essential Blocks is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.
Where does Gutenberg Essential Blocks rank among Page Builder Plugins?
Gutenberg Essential Blocks is #41 in the WordPress.org Page Builder Plugins ranking.