Lock Reusable Blocks

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1. ★★★★★ jjonic

   3.0y ago

   Before this plugin, I’d spent hours redoing work on my Reusable Blocks I had accidentally overwritten or completely deleted. Wish I could go back in time and tell myself to install this plugin as soon as I started! Easy install, clear UI, is working perfectly with my other plugins and my theme & WordPress version (Twenty Twenty-Three; v6.1). As others have said, this plugin should be a feature by default. I’m not blogging without it ever again!

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2. ★★★★★ Jules Colle

   3.4y ago

   This plugin doesn’t get enough attention. THIS is the way reusable blocks are supposed to work. Letting the user know what they are doing: editing the reusable block side wide, or just editing a single instance. Clean, simple, obvious. Couldn’t be better! I have been following the problems with reusable blocks for years now. On Github there seems to be a consensus that this issue is somehow resolved since block locking became a feature. But still, it is way too easy to accidentally edit reusable blocks in an unintended way, even with WP 6.2. Actually it used to be good when Gutenberg just released. Back then, reusable blocks where one of the few features that they completely nailed from the start. Why this was changed in such a bad way, is a complete mystery to me. Thanks for writing this essential plugin. Hope it makes it into core!

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3. ★★★★★ Kim Vinberg

   3.6y ago

   This should be a feature of WP and not a plugin. It’s really useful for building large sites and not having clients mess them up afterward due to the ability to edit useable blocks. This topic was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by Kim Vinberg.

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4. ★★★★★ btxtiger

   4.3y ago

   This is the design that should the reusable blocks have out of the box!

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5. ★★★★★ shawfactor

   4.4y ago

   All plugins should be like this. Simple one job plugins that do one thing well. I follow this philosophy in my own plugins and it is good to see others doing the same.

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6. ★★★★★ Martin Sauter

   4.4y ago

   Even people who understand the concept of reusable blocks tend to unintentionally edit such blocks from time to time (changing it for the whole website instead of a single instance). This plug-in protects reusable blocks in simple, elegant way – and you can still edit them if this is really your intension. Should be integrated into WP core.

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Translated into 12 languages, 3 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-06-21 300+ → 200+ down after 329 days in tier
2. 2024-07-27 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in tier
3. 2024-07-25 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
4. 2024-07-24 400+ → 300+ down after 7 days in tier
5. 2024-07-17 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
6. 2024-07-16 400+ → 300+ down after 318 days in tier
7. 2023-09-02 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in tier
8. 2023-08-31 400+ → 300+ down 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).

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• PDF Embedder – PDF Viewer & Embed PDF Files for WordPress 300K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
• Layout Grid Block 200K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag D
• Crowdsignal Forms 200K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag A
• Content Views – Post Grid & Filter (Shortcode, Blocks, Elementor Widgets) 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A

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Lock Reusable Blocks: 200+ active installs, 5.0★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-09-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/lock-reusable-blocks