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Blocks for Gutenberg

by Nick Tomkin · Blocks

This is a very simple plugin that adds a few, white-labeled blocks to help you add some variety in how you display content on your website.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

41 health vs 67 average across 1,644 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 5.7.15.

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.

39 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 4/100
WP compatibility 28/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1884 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-06 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-18% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

229

now · peak 334

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

Blocks for Gutenberg · #56728 Spectra Legacy · #51 Crowdsignal Forms · #255 Flexible Table Block · #812

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “—”. The real number sits in this band.

modeled estimate
0–0 ≈0

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,382 observations

Details

Version
1.0.9
Last updated
5.2y ago
Added
2021-05-04 · 5 yrs on WP
Requires WP
5.1
Tested up to
5.7.15
Requires PHP
7.0

Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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Blocks for Gutenberg: — active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-18. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/orchestrated-blocks