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Block Navigation

by Alvaro · Blocks

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Block Navigation sidebar panel for the new Block editor.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
52 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 94/100
Support 70/100

52 health vs 67 average across 1,682 Blocks plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.0.14.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

56 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 7/100
WP compatibility 41/100
Rating quality 89/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1563 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+81% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

255

now · peak 611

25030d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Block Navigation · #3880 you Spectra Legacy · #57 Kadence Blocks · #104 GenerateBlocks · #215

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

83per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

4.3y ago

latest release · v4.1.1

22

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

4.1.1 · 4.3y ago4.1.0 · 4.6y ago4.0.1 · 5.0y ago4.0.0 · 5.1y ago3.4.1 · 5.1y ago3.4.0 · 5.5y ago3.3.3 · 5.5y ago3.3.2 · 5.6y ago3.3.1 · 5.7y ago3.3.0 · 5.7y ago3.2.0 · 5.7y ago3.1.0 · 5.9y ago3.0.0 · 6.1y ago2.0.1 · 6.5y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 96% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v4.1 96%
Older / other versions 4.4%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “3K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
3K–4K ≈3.6K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2019-12-07 · 1,433 observations

3KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
4.1.1
Last updated
4.3y ago
Added
2018-11-01 · 7 yrs old
Requires WP
5.8
Tested up to
6.0.14
Requires PHP
7.1

Recent reviews

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  1. anja
    9mo ago

    I use this with all of my wordpress installations. It’s so super useful.Thanks a lot for providing this. Hopefully it will work also with the newer wp-versions – I’ll try.

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  2. Izandi
    3.6y ago

    Thank you very much for the plugin. Default list view makes me crazy especially the “Move to”. I wonder why this is not built-in.

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  3. Li-An
    3.7y ago

    A great little plugin that improves greatly block navigation and, super important, blocks movement. Put a block into another block precisely is so important.

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  4. Stempelschneider
    4.5y ago

    This is one of the best Gutenberg Builder Add-ons I’ve seen so far. Great tool that compensates the lack of an block overview feature in the Gutenberg Builder itself. Hope this will become part of Gutenberg sooner or later.

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  5. stevenorlosky
    4.7y ago

    I learned about this from the Kadence WP tutorial on YouTube. They need to make a Pro version of this plugin so I can buy it! I absolutely love it, and it’s smooth. I just downloaded it and it works amazingly so far. So glad you made this plugin, and I can’t believe it’s free! Gutenburg needed something like this badly! Thanks!

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  6. andrewei94
    4.9y ago

    Coming from Elementor I think that a navigator is a really helpful feature for a pagebuilder. Per default Gutenberg unfortunately does not provide such feature. This is where this plugin comes in very handy.

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  7. Nawawi Jamili
    5.3y ago

    Help me a lot, thanks.

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  8. DIMITRIS
    5.4y ago

    I install in all Gutenberg sites. Very useful when editing page, no bugs so far. Thank you

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 4.1.1 Fixed incompatibility with some custom blocks 4.1.1
  2. Version 4.1.0 Minor fixes for WP 5.9 Updated dependencies 4.1.0
  3. Version 4.0.1 Minor style fixes 4.0.1
  4. Version 4.0.0 Code base refactor for improved performance Fixed WP 5.8 incompatibility of the drag-and-drop functionality Added duplicate button in block menu Display block variant icon and name when there is no block content Added to 4.0.0
  5. Version 3.4.1 Added a temporary patch for WP 5.8 drop event 3.4.1
  6. Version 3.4.0 Fixed bug in WP 5.7, drop events not being triggered Updated dependencies 3.4.0

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.9.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 8 languages, 6 at 90% or more

Spanish (Chile) 100%
Spanish (Colombia) 100%
Spanish (Ecuador) 100%
Spanish (Mexico) 100%
Spanish (Spain) 100%
Spanish (Venezuela) 100%
Swedish 55%
French (France) 48%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-01-28 4K+ → 3K+ down after 5 days in tier
  2. 2026-01-23 3K+ → 4K+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2026-01-21 4K+ → 3K+ down after 418 days in tier
  4. 2024-11-29 5K+ → 4K+ down after 260 days in tier
  5. 2024-03-14 6K+ → 5K+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2024-03-13 5K+ → 6K+ up after 25 days in tier
  7. 2024-02-17 6K+ → 5K+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2024-02-16 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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