Description
Section Blocks is a powerful WordPress Gutenberg plugin that provides a complete collection of professional section blocks for building modern, responsive websites. Each block is carefully crafted with beautiful design, extensive customization options, and mobile-first responsive design.
🚀 Key Features:
– 12+ Professional section blocks
– Custom “Section Blocks” category in Gutenberg
– Mobile-first responsive design
– Extensive customization options
– Beautiful hover effects and animations
– SEO-friendly markup
– Accessibility compliant
– Easy to use with intuitive controls
🎯 Available Blocks:
Hero Section – Eye-catching hero sections with background images, customizable titles, subtitles, and call-to-action buttons with overlay controls and multiple text alignment options.
Features Section – Showcase features with icons, headings, and descriptions in 3-6 column responsive grid layout with 16+ built-in WordPress Dashicons and optional side images.
Services Section – Display services, features, or offerings with stylish cards. Choose between 60+ Dashicons or custom images for each service with 2-4 column responsive grid layouts, hover effects, and CTA buttons.
Steps Timeline – Multi-step processes with flexible layouts (vertical, horizontal, zigzag), 3-6 configurable steps, rich content support, visual connectors, and scroll-triggered animations.
Video CTA Section – Engaging video call-to-action sections with video backgrounds, overlay controls, customizable text, and conversion-focused design elements.
Testimonials Section – Display customer testimonials with star ratings, client images, names, and testimonial text. Supports both carousel and grid layout options with autoplay and animation effects.
Pricing Tables – Create pricing comparison tables with multiple plans side-by-side, feature lists, and highlighted recommended plans.
Team Members – Showcase your team with multiple layout styles (Card, Overlay, Minimal, Professional), social media integration, and hover effects.
FAQ/Accordion – Create toggle-style accordion sections with schema markup for SEO benefits and smooth animations.
Gallery Portfolio – Display images in masonry or grid layouts with filterable categories and lightbox functionality.
Newsletter Signup – Email capture forms with Mailchimp integration, custom API support, privacy consent options, and spam protection.
Call to Action – Powerful CTA sections with customizable backgrounds, text, and multiple button options for conversions.
Screenshots
All block in a picture. 
Newsletter subscription picture
Blocks
This plugin provides 12 blocks.
- Newsletter Signup A beautiful newsletter signup section with email capture, Mailchimp integration, and customizable design options.
- Pricing Tables Professional pricing tables with multiple plans, feature comparison, billing toggle, and customizable design options.
- FAQ Accordion A comprehensive FAQ accordion block with toggle functionality, schema markup for SEO, search, categories, and advanced customization options.
- Steps Timeline Guide users through a multi-step process or chronological journey with clear, engaging visuals and animations. Perfect for how-it-works sections, onboarding flows, and project timelines.
- Gallery Portfolio A beautiful gallery/portfolio section with masonry or grid layout, filterable categories, and awesome interactive features.
- Call to Action Section A powerful call-to-action section with customizable background, text, and multiple button options.
- Hero Section A beautiful hero section with background image, title, subtitle, and call-to-action button.
- Video CTA Section Engage users with compelling video content and call-to-action buttons. Supports YouTube, Vimeo, and self-hosted videos.
- Features Section A beautiful features section with icons, headings, descriptions, and optional side image. Supports 3-6 columns layout with hover effects.
- Team Members Showcase your team with beautiful profile cards featuring images, names, positions, bios, and social links. Multiple layouts and hover effects included.
- Testimonials Section A beautiful testimonials section with star ratings, client images, names, and testimonial text. Supports carousel and grid layout options.
- Services Section Display services, features, or offerings using stylish cards with icons/images, titles, descriptions, and optional CTA buttons. Enhanced with hover effects and responsive design.
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/section-blocksdirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
- In the Gutenberg editor, look for the “Section Blocks” category to find all available blocks
- For newsletter functionality, configure settings under Settings > Newsletter Settings
FAQ
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How many blocks are included in this plugin?
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The plugin includes 12 professional section blocks: Hero Section, Features Section, Services Section, Steps Timeline, Video CTA Section, Testimonials Section, Pricing Tables, Team Members, FAQ/Accordion, Gallery Portfolio, Newsletter Signup, and Call to Action.
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Go to Settings > Newsletter Settings in your WordPress admin to configure Mailchimp API keys, reCAPTCHA settings, and view subscriber lists.
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Are the blocks responsive?
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Yes! All blocks are built with mobile-first responsive design and automatically adapt to different screen sizes.
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Can I customize the colors and styling?
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Absolutely! Each block includes extensive customization options for colors, typography, spacing, and layout through the Gutenberg editor sidebar.
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Do the blocks work with any theme?
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Yes, the blocks are designed to work with any properly coded WordPress theme that supports Gutenberg blocks.
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Is the plugin accessible?
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Yes, all blocks include proper ARIA labels, semantic HTML markup, and follow WordPress accessibility guidelines.
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Can I use custom images with the Services Section block?
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Yes, the Services Section block supports both 60+ built-in Dashicons and custom images that you can upload for each service card.
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Does the Steps Timeline block support animations?
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Yes, the Steps Timeline block includes scroll-triggered animations, entrance effects (fade, slide, zoom, bounce), and progressive step animations with customizable timing.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Section Blocks – The Layout Builder for Gutenberg” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Interested in development?
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Changelog
1.2.2
- Added analytics integration with Appsero for plugin usage insights
- Implemented user permission-based data collection and tracking
- Enhanced plugin performance monitoring capabilities
- Updated minimum PHP requirement from 7.0 to 7.4 for better compatibility
- Added comprehensive analytics tracking system with user consent
- Improved plugin architecture for better maintainability
- Enhanced security and performance benefits with PHP 7.4+ requirement
1.2.1
- Added Services Section block with service cards and CTA buttons
- Implemented 60+ Dashicons support and custom image options for services
- Added drag-to-reorder and clone/duplicate functionality for service management
- Added Steps Timeline block with multi-step processes and flexible layouts
- Implemented vertical, horizontal, and zigzag timeline orientations
- Added scroll-triggered animations and visual connectors for timeline steps
- Added Video CTA Section block with video backgrounds and overlay controls
- Enhanced testimonials section with autoplay and animation effects
- Improved responsive design and mobile optimization across all blocks
- Updated block count to 12 professional section blocks
- Enhanced accessibility features and ARIA label support
- Performance optimizations and code improvements
1.2
- Screenshots uploaded
- logo Added
- Added cover image
1.1
- Added Newsletter Signup Section block with email capture functionality
- Integrated Mailchimp API support for newsletter subscriptions
- Added custom API integration support for third-party services
- Implemented WordPress native subscription storage
- Added admin settings page for newsletter configuration
- Added reCAPTCHA support for spam protection
- Enhanced security with nonce verification
- Added privacy consent checkbox option
- Improved AJAX handling for form submissions
- Added comprehensive error handling and user feedback
- Added Gallery Portfolio Section block with masonry and grid layouts
- Implemented filterable categories for portfolio items
- Added individual category selection for each image
- Added lightbox functionality for image viewing
- Added hover effects and animations
- Removed portfolio blocks as per user feedback
- Enhanced responsive design across all blocks
- Added beautiful gradient backgrounds to Section Blocks category
- Improved block category styling with hover effects
- Added FAQ/Accordion Section block with toggle functionality
- Implemented schema markup for SEO benefits
- Added Team Members Section block with multiple layout styles
- Added Card, Overlay, Minimal, and Professional layout options
- Integrated social media links for team members
- Added hover effects (lift, scale, glow) for team member cards
- Added default avatar system for team members
- Enhanced customization options for colors, spacing, and alignment
- Improved responsive design for mobile devices
- Added Hero Section block with background images and overlay controls
- Added Features Section block with 3-6 column responsive grid
- Added 16+ built-in WordPress Dashicons support
- Added optional side images with left/right positioning
- Added Testimonials Section block with star ratings
- Added client images, names, and testimonial text
- Added carousel and grid layout options for testimonials
- Added Pricing Tables block with multiple pricing plans
- Added feature comparison tables and highlighted recommended plans
- Added Call to Action Section block with customizable backgrounds
- Created custom “Section Blocks” category in Gutenberg editor
- Implemented mobile-first responsive design
- Added extensive color and typography customization options
- Added hover effects and smooth animations
- Implemented accessibility features and ARIA labels
- Added comprehensive CSS with print-friendly styles
- Added RTL (Right-to-Left) language support
0.1.0
- Initial plugin scaffolding with Create Block tool
- Basic plugin structure and foundation