Plugin Pulse
← Pulse

Gutenberg Editor Full Width Blocks Border

by rahulkanojia · Blocks

This plugin adds borders and hover effects to all blocks in the Gutenberg Editor for easier navigation.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 67 average across 1,683 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.15.

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.

44 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 4/100
WP compatibility 32/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1866 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

Get the full rank-higher report →

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+59% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

54

now · peak 79

5430d 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

Gutenberg Editor Ful · #13805 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.

540per 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

5.1y ago

latest release · v1.1.1

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1.1 · 5.1y ago1.1.0 · 5.1y ago1.0.0 · 5.2y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈150

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

Install history · since 2021-11-30 · 1,383 observations

100Installs · 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
1.1.1
Last updated
5.1y ago
Added
2021-07-08 · 5 yrs old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
5.8.15
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. akshaybadale
    5.1y ago

    A long awaited feature , I was looking in Gutenberg. This topic was modified 5 years ago by akshaybadale.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. nick6352683
    5.1y ago

    I was relying on the EditorsKit plugin to display the borders, but this one is better, easier to see ALL the borders and the hover effect is the icing on the cake. The only thing I changed was the color of the hover border from black to green, simply because it is more usual to have a black background in a container block, like the Cover or Group blocks, as oppose to a green background. Thanks a lot for this !

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.8

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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-03-08 200+ → 100+ down after 4 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-04 100+ → 200+ up after 5 days in tier
  3. 2026-02-27 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2026-02-26 100+ → 200+ up after 14 days in tier
  5. 2026-02-12 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in tier
  6. 2026-02-10 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2026-02-09 200+ → 100+ down after 686 days in tier
  8. 2024-03-25 100+ → 200+ up after 1 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).

Compare head to head →

Embed this report card

Drop a live Pulse card for Gutenberg Editor Full Width Blocks Border into a readme, a review or a deck. It updates itself.

<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/editor-blocks-border" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Gutenberg Editor Full Width Blocks Border — Plugin Pulse"></iframe>
Preview card ↗

Gutenberg Editor Full Width Blocks Border: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/editor-blocks-border