Blockwright Blocks is the companion plugin for the Blockwright theme, though it works on any modern block theme. It adds a small, considered set of blocks that already know how your theme looks: they take on your theme’s colors and follow its light and dark, with nothing to set up first.
Everything here is optional and standards-based: no page builder, no required setup, nothing loaded from third parties. It is built for people who make sites for clients, so it stays out of the way and locks nothing in. Every block uses core’s own APIs and saves standard WordPress markup, so a site you hand off keeps working even if the plugin is later removed.
What you get
- Dynamic content placeholders. Turn any paragraph, heading, image, or button into a placeholder for post or site data, with no code. Select the block, pick a source from the “Dynamic content” panel, and it shows the post title, excerpt, date, author, or featured image, or your site title, tagline, or URL. Put one in a template and every post fills it with its own data. WordPress has had the underlying Block Bindings API since 6.5; this gives it a visible control and the everyday fields it was missing.
- Four composition blocks. Icon Box (an icon, heading, and text as one feature callout), Icon List (a list where every item leads with an icon), Stat Counter (a large number with a label, for metrics and results), and Timeline (a vertical sequence for steps, process, or history). Each is token-driven, so it inherits your theme’s colors and follows its light and dark.
- 298 extra icons, in WordPress’s own icon picker. A curated collection that fills the gaps in the default set: contact and location, commerce, trust and proof, charts, workflow, developer, content, and office icons. They appear as their own tab in the Icon block’s library, search alongside the built-in icons, and take their color from your theme. Requires WordPress 7.1 or later; on earlier versions the plugin’s other features work as normal.
- Stamp block. A rotated corner badge, like a rubber stamp, for pricing tables, cards, and feature callouts. Choose the corner, rotation, border style, color, and offset from the block toolbar and Inspector. It is fully transparent, so the card behind it shows through.
- Light / Dark Toggle. Color is adaptive by default, following each visitor’s device on its own, so no toggle is needed. When you want to give people a choice, drop this control in the header: one tap flips between light and dark, and the choice lasts their visit, then returns to their system setting next time. It steers the standard color-scheme setting, so it works with any theme whose colors adapt, Blockwright included.
- Dark mode Site Logo. Add an optional second logo that is shown to visitors whose device is in dark mode. Two ordinary image uploads, swapped automatically with a native
<picture>element. No SVG and no upload plugin required. Leave it empty to use your main logo in both modes.
Nothing here locks you in. Dynamic content is written as standard WordPress block markup, so if you deactivate the plugin your blocks simply show their own saved content again.
Blockwright Blocks is designed to pair with the Blockwright theme, but the blocks degrade gracefully and work on other block themes too.
Roadmap
Blockwright Blocks is actively developed. Planned additions to the free plugin include:
- A visual token editor for adjusting your theme’s colors, spacing, and type from a friendly admin screen, no JSON required.
- More icons, and finer control over how they are used.
- A small library of section patterns.
- A color-scheme importer that builds an adaptive light and dark palette from a single brand color.
Priorities may shift based on user feedback.
Credits
Icons are from Phosphor Icons (https://phosphoricons.com/), copyright (c) 2023 Phosphor Icons, used under the MIT License. The full license text ships with the plugin in assets/icons/LICENSE.