Anchor Block

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Most reviewers love how simply it adds anchors anywhere in Gutenberg, though a couple hit conflicts with other plugins and themes that break tab behaviour or top spacing.

1. ★★★★★ Sue Steinberg

   3.8y ago

   Love this plugin, this plugin helped me with my project. Thanks a lot!

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2. ★★★★★ wp-MeMeMe

   4.5y ago

   Just a warning: This plugin causes tabs created by another plugin to be treated as anchors, causing the page to jump whenever a tab is clicked. Unfortunately, this pushes the tabs just off the top of the screen, and with vertical tabs hides the top of the text contained in the tab. TRhis makes the tabs pretty much unusable, so you have to choose which plugin is most important and dump the other. This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by wp-MeMeMe.

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3. ★★★★★ jeffz8

   6.2y ago

   When I started working in WP, I as totally surprised anchors were so restricted and frustrated. This solves that problem simply and straightforwardly.

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4. ★★★★★ albertgorlee

   6.2y ago

   …a list of already defined anchors to speed up entering the correct destination link in (for example) a button.

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5. ★★★★★ pjsorell

   6.3y ago

   Such a simple yet INGENIOUS little plugin that elegantly solves a bugger of an issue with Gutenberg WordPress… inserting “Anchors” (i.e. Page Jumps) into pages. As someone who can edit HTML code quite well, I find it awkward how WordPress makes it to add “anchors” to any place in a document OTHER THAN Headers (Gutenberg has this built in, but JUST for headers). Trying to add the HTML code id=”xyz” to anywhere else (text, pictures, etc) forces you to convert the block to pure HTML, thereby losing the block editing structure for all else related to that particular block. So now you have to work with BOTH Block and HTML content on a single page. There is no way to just add the HTML “id code” and keep the existing Gutenberg Block editing structure for all other aspects of the paragraph or picture. Trust me, if I wanted to work in HTML, I would. But there are reasons why I use WordPress and this one caveat of forcing mixed editing styles is just dysfunctional. Enter Gutenberg Anchor BLock! Simply add it to your page, just as you would any other block, just above where you want an anchor point, enter a unique name for the anchor, and voila… you’re DONE! A genius of an idea for which the developer, Jean-Baptiste Audras, should get royalties when it becomes a built-in of the next Gutenberg update. See, it truly IS the little things in life that make you the happiest! This topic was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by pjsorell.

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6. ★★★★★ btxtiger

   6.4y ago

   This is a nice method to integrate anchor links in gutenberg editor. However the top spacing is sadly not working for me. I’m using the Astra theme. I placed the anchor block just before a heading

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7. ★★★★★ Anita C

   6.8y ago

   This worked just like I needed it to for sites with sticky headers/menus.

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8. ★★★★★ Gilbert Cattoire

   6.9y ago

   This plugin gives you total freedom with anchor links, using Gutenberg. My advice : follow this WP core developer.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 0.1 Plugin initial commit. Works fine 🙂 0.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Translated into 9 languages, 8 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2022-11-15 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
2. 2022-11-14 2K+ → 1K+ down after 4 days in tier
3. 2022-11-10 1K+ → 2K+ up

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Anchor Block: 2K+ active installs, 4.1★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/anchor-block