Gutenberg delivers 44 core blocks and 34 core embed blocks.
Printing since 1440. This is the development plugin for the new block editor in core.
Core blocks
- Archives – core/archives
Display a monthly archive of your posts. - Audio – core/audio
Embed a simple audio player. - Button – core/button
Prompt visitors to take action with a button-style link. - Calendar – core/calendar
A calendar of your site’s posts. - Categories – core/categories
Display a list of all categories. - Classic – core/freeform
Use the classic WordPress editor. - Code – core/code
Display code snippets that respect your spacing and tabs. - Column – core/column
A single column within a columns block. - Columns – core/columns
Add a block that displays content in multiple columns, then add whatever content blocks you’d like. - Cover – core/cover
Add an image or video with a text overlay — great for headers. - Custom HTML – core/html
Add custom HTML code and preview it as you edit. - Embed – core/embed
Embed videos, images, tweets, audio, and other content from external sources. - File – core/file
Add a link to a downloadable file. - Gallery – core/gallery
Display multiple images in a rich gallery. - Group – core/group
A block that groups other blocks. - Heading – core/heading
Introduce new sections and organize content to help visitors (and search engines) understand the structure of your content. - Image – core/image
Insert an image to make a visual statement. - Latest Comments – core/latest-comments
Display a list of your most recent comments. - Latest Posts – core/latest-posts
Display a list of your most recent posts. - Legacy Widget (Experimental) – core/legacy-widget
Display a legacy widget. - List – core/list
Create a bulleted or numbered list. - Media & Text – core/media-text
Set media and words side-by-side for a richer layout. - Menu Item (Experimental) – core/navigation-menu-item
Add a page, link, or other item to your Navigation Menu. - More – core/more
Content before this block will be shown in the excerpt on your archives page. - Navigation Menu (Experimental) – core/navigation-menu
Add a navigation menu to your site. - Page Break – core/nextpage
Separate your content into a multi-page experience. - Paragraph – core/paragraph
Start with the building block of all narrative. - Preformatted – core/preformatted
Add text that respects your spacing and tabs, and also allows styling. - Pullquote – core/pullquote
Give special visual emphasis to a quote from your text. - Quote – core/quote
Give quoted text visual emphasis. “In quoting others, we cite ourselves.” — Julio Cortázar - Reusable Block – core/block
Create content, and save it for you and other contributors to reuse across your site. Update the block, and the changes apply everywhere it’s used. - Reusable Template – core/template
Template block used as a container. - RSS – core/rss
Display entries from any RSS or Atom feed. - Search – core/search
Help visitors find your content. - Separator – core/separator
Create a break between ideas or sections with a horizontal separator. - Shortcode – core/shortcode
Insert additional custom elements with a WordPress shortcode. - Spacer – core/spacer
Add white space between blocks and customize its height. - Subheading (deprecated) – core/subhead
This block is deprecated. Please use the Paragraph block instead. - Table – core/table
Insert a table — perfect for sharing charts and data. - Tag Cloud – core/tag-cloud
A cloud of your most used tags. - Text Columns (deprecated) – core/text-columns
This block is deprecated. Please use the Columns block instead. - Unrecognized Block – core/missing
Your site doesn’t include support for this block. - Verse – core/verse
Insert poetry. Use special spacing formats. Or quote song lyrics. - Video – core/video
Embed a video from your media library or upload a new one.
Core embed blocks
- Amazon Kindle – core-embed/amazon-kindle
Embed Amazon Kindle content. - Animoto – core-embed/animoto
Embed an Animoto video. - Cloudup – core-embed/cloudup
Embed Cloudup content. - CollegeHumor – core-embed/collegehumor
Embed CollegeHumor content. - Crowdsignal – core-embed/crowdsignal
Embed Crowdsignal (formerly Polldaddy) content. - Dailymotion – core-embed/dailymotion
Embed a Dailymotion video. - Facebook – core-embed/facebook
Embed a Facebook post. - Flickr – core-embed/flickr
Embed Flickr content. - Hulu – core-embed/hulu
Embed Hulu content. - Imgur – core-embed/imgur
Embed Imgur content. - Instagram – core-embed/instagram
Embed an Instagram post. - Issuu – core-embed/issuu
Embed Issuu content. - Kickstarter – core-embed/kickstarter
Embed Kickstarter content. - Meetup.com – core-embed/meetup-com
Embed Meetup.com content. - Mixcloud – core-embed/mixcloud
Embed Mixcloud content. - Polldaddy – core-embed/polldaddy
Embed Polldaddy content. - Reddit – core-embed/reddit
Embed a Reddit thread. - ReverbNation – core-embed/reverbnation
Embed ReverbNation content. - Screencast – core-embed/screencast
Embed Screencast content. - Scribd – core-embed/scribd
Embed Scribd content. - Slideshare – core-embed/slideshare
Embed Slideshare content. - SmugMug – core-embed/smugmug
Embed SmugMug content. - SoundCloud – core-embed/soundcloud
Embed SoundCloud content. - Speaker – core-embed/speaker
Add a block that displays content pulled from other sites, like Twitter, Instagram or YouTube. - Speaker Deck – core-embed/speaker-deck
Embed Speaker Deck content. - Spotify – core-embed/spotify
Embed Spotify content. - TED – core-embed/ted
Embed a TED video. - Tumblr – core-embed/tumblr
Embed a Tumblr post. - Twitter – core-embed/twitter
Embed a tweet. - VideoPress – core-embed/videopress
Embed a VideoPress video. - Vimeo – core-embed/vimeo
Embed a Vimeo video. - WordPress – core-embed/wordpress
Embed a WordPress post. - WordPress.tv – core-embed/wordpress-tv
Embed a WordPress.tv video. - YouTube – core-embed/youtube
Embed a YouTube video.
Block change summary
Gutenberg 5.9.0 provides 42 blocks with a prefix of core, and 34 blocks with a prefix of core-embed.
In WordPress 5.0 there were 36 core blocks and 35 core-embed blocks.
Added
- Amazon Kindle – core-embed/amazon-kindle
- Calendar – core/calendar
- Group – core/group
- Legacy Widget (Experimental) – core/legacy-widget
- RSS – core/rss
- Search – core/search
- Tag Cloud – core/tag-cloud
Deleted
The two core-embed blocks that were Deleted were not Deprecated. They were simply removed.
Deprecated
For some reason, Gutenberg still registers a number of Deprecated blocks.
| Plugin name and description | Plugin links | Version, total downloads, last update, tested |
|---|---|---|
| Gutenberg The block editor was introduced in core WordPress with version 5.0. This beta plugin allows you to test bleeding-edge features around editing and cust … | gutenberg home | 6.9.0 12552533 2019-11-13 7:54pm GMT 5.2.4 |
References
- Summary of WordPress core blocks
- For the Cumulative change log for Gutenberg see https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gutenberg/trunk/changelog.txt
