Better Block Editor (BBE)

Description

Better Block Editor (BBE) adds responsive layout controls, hover effects, on-scroll animations, and ready-to-use site templates to Block Editor. It’s not another page builder. It doesn’t replace core blocks or add bloat — BBE just adds the missing settings where needed. It works with your current block theme and plugins, so your existing content stays intact.

Highlights

  • Responsive Settings for Row, Stack, Grid, Columns, Button, Navigation, and text (Heading, Paragraph) blocks — choose a breakpoint, then adjust orientation, spacing, and alignment at that breakpoint.
  • Responsive Visibility for any block — set the default visibility state and change it at a chosen breakpoint.
  • Prevent Shrinking for elements set to Fixed or Fit-content sizes — keeps complex layouts intact on small screens.
  • Animation on Scroll — configurable animation effect, easing, duration, and delay.
  • Hover colors for Button and Navigation.
  • Pre-made Sites and Partial Import — bring over a full site or a single page/section; assets import automatically.
  • One-click customization for imported content — set primary, secondary, and neutral colors; BBE creates a balanced palette in one click.
  • Native Block Editor integration — no lock-in, lightweight, GPL, and free.

Free pre-made site templates

How it works

Import a template and make it yours in minutes with the one-click customization tool. Mix pages and sections from different templates with Partial Import. Create a professional website in hours — not weeks!

Features

  • Responsive Settings for Row and Stack — change orientation (convert Row Stack), justification, vertical alignment, and spacing at a chosen breakpoint. This panel is key to controllable responsive behavior in Block Editor sites.
  • Prevent Shrinking — available when a block’s width/height is set to Fit content or Fixed; prevents fixed-size elements from collapsing on small screens.
  • Responsive Visibility for any block — set the default visibility state (visible/hidden) and change it at a chosen breakpoint.
  • Responsive Settings for Grid — replaces the core Stack on mobile with a dedicated panel to choose the stacking breakpoint and adjust spacing at that breakpoint.
  • Improved Stack on mobile for Columns — choose the breakpoint and optionally reverse the column order at that breakpoint.
  • Navigation overlay menu — replaces the fixed Mobile option with Responsive; pick the exact breakpoint when navigation collapses to a menu icon (useful for headers).
  • Hover color for Navigation — add hover color controls for menu and submenu items.
  • Responsive Settings for Button — control the orientation of inner buttons (stack or reverse), plus justification and vertical alignment at a chosen breakpoint.
  • Hover colors for Button — set text, background, and border colors on hover.
  • Responsive Settings for Post Template (Grid view) — stack posts and adjust spacing at a chosen breakpoint.
  • Animation on Scroll for any block — subtle reveal on scroll with configurable effect, easing, duration, and delay.
  • Responsive text alignment — add alignment controls at a chosen breakpoint for Heading, Paragraph, and select text-based blocks.
  • SVG Icon block + sanitized SVG upload — place SVG icons anywhere; control size, color, hover color, and linking.
  • Breakpoints — edit built-in breakpoints and add or remove custom breakpoints.

Requirements & Compatibility

  • WordPress 6.8 or later
  • Uses the native Block Editor (Gutenberg)
  • Works with block themes; does not target third-party page builders

Privacy

This plugin does not collect personal data from site visitors. It uses standard Block Editor controls and optional template imports. Site owners should review their own analytics/embeds for compliance.

License

Better Block Editor is distributed under the GPLv2 or later. You are free to use it on personal and commercial sites.

Resources

Screenshots

  • Responsive Layout Controls — choose a breakpoint; adjust orientation, alignment, justification, and spacing.
  • On-scroll Animation — configure effect, easing, duration, and delay.
  • Pre-made Site Templates — browse and import a full site template.
  • Partial Import — copy a single page or section; assets import automatically.
  • One-click Customization — set primary, secondary, and neutral colors; BBE builds a balanced palette.
  • Responsive Visibility — set default visibility and switch it at a chosen breakpoint.
  • Prevent Shrinking — keep fixed/fit-content elements from collapsing on small screens.

Blocks

This plugin provides 2 blocks.

  • Better Contact Form 7 Display a contact form you have created with Contact Form 7.
  • SVG Icon Display the SVG icon

Reviews

February 13, 2026
Tried this plgin and was impressed with designs i made with it. Give it a try you will not be dis apponited.
February 6, 2026
Better Block Editor (BBE) is an excellent plugin that gives you full control over the WordPress block editor, dramatically improving workflow and making content creation cleaner, faster, and more enjoyable.
January 27, 2026
Finally a plugin that makes native block editor usable :-)No more responsiveness problems!It also provides nice website templates to import for free 😉
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Contributors & Developers

“Better Block Editor (BBE)” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.2.2 (11-02-2026)

  1. Fixed an issue with responsive visibility for the Group block (props to @frdmsun)

1.2.1 (10-02-2026)

  1. Removed hidden reference elements (div.wpbbe-ref-anchor) from the editor.
  2. Added an option to stretch all form fields in Better Contact Form 7 block.
  3. Fixed an issue where Better Contact Form 7 block lost font size control data in specific use cases.
  4. Resolved a problem where buttons in Better Contact Form 7 block did not inherit font family from their parent container.
  5. Corrected placeholder text color rendering in Better Contact Form 7 block fields under certain conditions.

1.2.0 (29-01-2026)

  1. Added integration with Contact Form 7 via the “Better Contact Form 7” block.

1.1.0 (20-01-2026)

  1. Added Text Style settings for Heading, Paragraph, Post Title, and Post Excerpt blocks.
  2. Forced the editor into API v3 (iframe) mode for enhanced stability and compatibility.
  3. Fixed minor layout issues caused by the Welcome Guide.
  4. Resolved a compatibility issue with Contact Form 7 block.
  5. Removed duplicate Display Settings panel in the Navigation block.

1.0.1.2 (04-11-2025)

  1. Fix Site Templates page.

1.0.1.1 (04-11-2025)

  1. Fix progress indicator for Partial Import.

1.0.1

  1. Improved Palette Generator (one-click customization tool).
  2. Added progress indicator for Partial Import.
  3. Cleaned up unnecessary files.
  4. Minor under-the-hood tweaks.

1.0.0

Initial public release.