Description
Find My Blocks is a WordPress plugin built to help (as it says in the name) find where you have used specific Gutenberg blocks on your WordPress website.
Gutenberg is a great tool to make managing content on your WordPress website easier. However after a while, updating and maintaining blocks can become a hassle for developers. It can become hard to keep track of what posts/pages a block is used on, or how many times it has used. This makes maintaining Gutenberg websites quite difficult.
Find my blocks is a tool that is here to help. With Find My Blocks you can get:
- A list of all the block types that are being used on your WordPress website.
- The amount of times a specific block type has been used on your WordPress website.
- The posts/pages that a block has been used on.
- The amount of times a block has been used on a specific post/page.
- If the block is a “Reusable Block”
- If the block is a “Nested Block”
- A filtered list of block names to help you find the block that you are looking for.
- What are your most used, and least used blocks on your website.
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/find-my-blocksdirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
- Use the Tools->Find My Blocks screen to locate all of your blocks
FAQ
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Will this work with custom blocks
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Yes, this plugin will work with all blocks registered and used on your site.
Reviews
October 20, 2023
Find My Blocks is a powerful tool when wishing to manage a block-based site. It gives you the ability to see across your site for all instances of specific block types. This is especially helpful when you're wishing to replace or modify a block type on a site-wide scale.As block libraries grow and there become a multitude of similar, overlapping block types, the Find My Blocks plugin will be especially helpful in optimizing & standardizing your site.In short: don't build a block-based site without Find My Blocks.
September 9, 2023
I had installed many sets of blocks to try out and ended up with a lot of overlap of block types and a mess of using a few blocks from one plugin, and a few from another, and a few more from others. Find My Blocks gave me a way to clean up the mess without the risk of removing blocks that content depended on.
February 3, 2023
A must-have plugin to keep the number of Gutenberg blocks plugins to under control.
January 18, 2023
I needed to find where a specific block had been used and tried another plugin first, but that one didn't find very many of them. With this plugin, I got a much more extensive list of blocks and could quickly solve my issue - thanks!
December 30, 2022
1 reply
Very nice UX. I'd say - bravo!Suggestion: please incorporate reusable blocks somehow
September 2, 2022
This is an addon everyone needs on his must have list!
Contributors & Developers
“Find My Blocks” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Find My Blocks” has been translated into 6 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Changelog
3.5.3
- Changes the icon for “# of usages in Post” for clarity
3.3.2
- Fixes the broken wp-json url
- Updates the donate link to a BuyMeACoffee Link
3.3.1
- Uses
get_rest_urlfor the fetch url.
3.3.0
- Uses
get_admin_urlfor theeditlink to avoid redirect loops.
3.2.0
- Adds the
site_url()to the fetch url.
3.1.3
- Fixes a 🐛 that was causing the plugin to not load on some sites.
3.1.0
- Allows for filtering by block name on the API endpoint. (
/wp-json/find-my-blocks/blocks?name=core/button)
3.0.0
- Changes to use WordPress components and match WordPress styling
- Includes private, pending, and future status posts in main query
- Allows the ability to optionally include drafts
- Fixes a 🐛 where cards would change order for no reason
2.3.0
- Checks for nested blocks.
- Adds a tag to a card if the block is nested
2.2.0
- Hides the “core-embed” blocks with the “Hide Core Blocks” option.
- Fixes the broken link when plugin is first activated.
2.1.0
- Moves the menu item to Tools > Find My Blocks.
- Hides core blocks by default. The option to show and hide core blocks is now
in settings. - Settings moved from top of blocks to side on wider screens.
2.0.2
- Fixed the navigation showing ‘Found in 1 postfalse’ when only one post found
2.0.1
- Fixed a bug where the page refresh didn’t properly set the active block
2.0.0
- Moves Find My Blocks out of the Settings menu and into its own sidebar item
- Layout moved off of WordPress components to allow better testing
- On initial load, the proper first navigation will be selected as active
- When the page is refreshed, the selected block will stay active
- Allows sorting of navigation and cards
- Launches official website https://find-my-blocks.edeesims.com/
1.4.0
- Allows the editor role to use the plugin
1.3.0
- Sorts the list of the navigation alphabetically.
- Sorts the list of pages alphabetically.
- Some updates to styling to bring more inline with Gutenberg and WordPress
core.
1.2.0
- Adds a Filter Input to allow you to filter blocks in the menu.
- Updates the style of the header to be just a little bit nicer.
- Adds a loading screen so that you are not bored waiting for the page to load.
1.1.0
- Adds a message to notify the amount of times a block has been used in a post.
- Removes some old, unused functionality.
1.0.0
- Initial Release