Core Framework

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1. ★★★★★ Martin Sauter

   8mo ago

   Invaluable for any WordPress site without a page builder.

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2. ★★★★★ lanxalot

   10mo ago

   I have used ACSS and other Frameworks. I love Core as it is intuitive, lightm it has the right ammount of features for me, and you can easily remove the builder plugin (if you choose to use one) by simply exporting the styles and importing them directly into your builder. No lock-in. Support is great too. Thanks guys!

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3. ★★★★★ groggy72

   12mo ago

   This is a massive productivity investment. I bought the bricks addon and it’s a game changer.

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4. ★★★★★ Sunny

   1.5y ago

   This bring much needed CSS class management to the block editor + an entire design Framework system. This allows me to keep a limited set of WP block controls for my clients e.g. font size, colors, while giving my full design control via classes. At some point it would be nice to be able to limit access to specific user roles.

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5. ★★★★★ Yasin

   1.5y ago

   This is awesome! 🤩 Thanks for making it freely available for Gutenberg. 🙏 It’s amazingly easy to manage classes and create custom style variation for items.I love that it’s class-based and I can edit the class and it applies to the entire website, unlike other editors where appearance and style settings are tied to the element and can’t be edited globally. This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by Yasin.

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6. ★★★★★ Skylabb

   1.8y ago

   I wish I knew about this plugin sooner. It’s a game changer to mange design styles and customization. The interface is sleek. There are plenty options to create and manage CSS classes. It’s integrated with Gutenberg editor. There’s one thing that needs to be improved or fixed. The dropdown menu where you select the css styles to apply to a design block tends to jump up and down at times making it very tricky to select the menu items. It seems like a buggy Javascript issue. I left a message under support section for there has been no response from the author for a good couple months. This topic was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by Skylabb.

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7. ★★★★★ Francesco

   2.0y ago

   Using with Gutenberg, it helps a lot! Thank you David!

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8. ★★★★★ Andrew Pothecary

   2.1y ago

   Excellent plugin. I have just starting using it with Bricks. Highly recommended.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.0.0 Released Core Framework as free and open-source software under the MIT License. Included the Gutenberg, Bricks, Oxygen, and Figma integrations without license checks or paid feature gates. Updated the Oxygen 6 integratio 2.0.0
2. — Version 2.0.1 Fixed the Auto BEM class generator not appearing in the Bricks structure panel after updating to 2.0.0. Restored remote project import from a shareable project link or project ID. Fixed Bricks synchronization for empty c 2.0.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-02-15 9K+ → 10K+ up after 34 days in tier
2. 2025-01-12 8K+ → 9K+ up after 50 days in tier
3. 2024-11-23 7K+ → 8K+ up after 39 days in tier
4. 2024-10-15 6K+ → 7K+ up after 42 days in tier
5. 2024-09-03 5K+ → 6K+ up after 46 days in tier
6. 2024-07-19 4K+ → 5K+ up after 53 days in tier
7. 2024-05-27 3K+ → 4K+ up after 37 days in tier
8. 2024-04-20 2K+ → 3K+ up after 22 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• WP Add Custom CSS 60K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags B
• C Custom CSS and JS 900+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
• S Styles: TwentyFifteen 100+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
• B Bootstrap 100+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
• WP User Stylesheet Switcher 100+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
• C CSS Cache Buster 100+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D

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Core Framework: 10K+ active installs, 5.0★ (41 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-28. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/core-framework