Description
This plugin creates a new ‘text-blocks’ custom post type with it’s own section in the WordPress admin sidebar. It uses the standard WordPress user interface so you and your clients will know how to use it instantly.
New in Version 1.5: Variables! You can add {{player}} to your text block content and then pass in ‘player’ to the shortcode: [text-blocks id=”1″ player=”Hal Gatewood”]
You can add it to your site in three ways:
1. Widget
The included widget allows you to specify which block you want to insert. You can also include a title if needed.
2. Widget
[text-blocks id="1"] or [text-blocks id="text_block_slug"]
3. PHP Function
A PHP function has been setup so you do not have to use the do_shortcode function.
<?php if(function_exists('show_text_block')) { echo show_text_block(421); } ?>
<?php if(function_exists('show_text_block')) { echo show_text_block('slug'); } ?>
Screenshots
Text Blocks list view, with quick view of content and shortcode. 
Uses standard WordPress functionality. No surprises, you already know how to use it. 
Widget included 
New in 1.4.6: Media Button 
Create custom templates
Installation
- Add plugin to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Create text blocks and include them in your site using one of the 3 methods below
You can add it to your site in three ways:
1. Widget
The included widget allows you to specify which block you want to insert. You can also include a title if needed.
2. Widget
[text-blocks id="1"] or [text-blocks id="text_block_slug"]
3. PHP Function
A PHP function has been setup so you do not have to use the do_shortcode function.
<?php if(function_exists('show_text_block')) { echo show_text_block(421); } ?>
<?php if(function_exists('show_text_block')) { echo show_text_block('slug'); } ?>
Reviews
নৱেম্বৰ 30, 2022
Once again I've used the reusable Text Blocks to isolate and/or reuse moderately large blocks of HTML content.
I use the Classic WordPress editor, so the text blocks keep my HTML from getting too unwieldy. For example if I'm coding a two-column layout by hand, I can put the layout code in the page but put the columns content into Text Blocks.
Things I create reusable Text Blocks for include PayPal buttons and a schedule that appears at two places within the website. Isolating code to Text Blocks also reduces the chance of HTML errors from ruining the entire page, especially if clients are editing the pages themselves.
I like that I can use the block name within the shortcode.
আগষ্ট 4, 2020
This is an invaluable plugin and Hal deserves accolades for building it. It appears to work fine despite its lack of recent maintenance and lack of approval for use with recent versions of WordPress.
The lack of attention by the plugin author for such a long period of time makes me quite nervous about depending on this one-of-a-kind plugin. This may not be a problem, but still...
নৱেম্বৰ 8, 2019
I like the fact that I can import/export them on the fly just like any post type.
জুলাই 17, 2019
This is one of those plugins that is absolutely essential to Wordpress. Other CMS systems have this functionality by default, however wordpress is sadly missing it from the core. THANK YOU Hal Gatewood for providing this much needed plugin.
নৱেম্বৰ 8, 2018
This is exactly what I need. No div or span classes added. Awesome! Thank you.
জানুৱাৰী 15, 2018
Incredibly useful plugin. Well coded and great support.
Contributors & Developers
“Reusable Text Blocks” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.5.2
- New: checks for customs templates in a folder called ‘text-blocks’ first
- New: filter to check where templates are checked – text_blocks_template_location
1.5.1
- Fixed no attribute error
1.5
- Fixed PHP 7 Warnings
- Added slug=”” parameter when added from Add Block button (helps you know which shortcode block is which)
- Text Blocks will only show if Published
- Variables. You can add {{player}} to your text block and then pass in ‘player’ to the shortcode: [text-blocks id=”1″ player=”Hal Gatewood”]
1.4.10
- Added filter wpml_object_id
1.4.9
- WP_Widget construct changed
1.4.8
- Fixed plugin not adhering to the language needed. Thanks @elvi992
1.4.7
- Added ‘id’ to text_blocks_shortcode_html filter
- Fixed widget checkboxes with on
- Added quotes around plain=1
1.4.6
- Added .pot file, translation ready
- Removed custom post messages
- Added filter: ‘text_blocks_post_type_args’
- Added Media Button to quickly add shortcode to WP Text Editor
- ‘show_text_block’ now has third parameter that passes all shortcode parameters to the text block, for example: [text-blocks id=”198″ location=”okc”]
- Create custom templates: text-blocks-{$id}.php, or pass template=”homepage” in your shortcode for text-blocks-homepage.php
- New checkbox in widget to hide the title
1.4.5
- Enabled revisions
- Added filter: ‘text_blocks_show_text_block_id’
- Tested on WordPress 4.1
1.4.4
- Fix for error if no content found
1.4.3
- Moved init into plugins_loaded
- WordPresss 3.8 testing and icon
1.4.2
- Post thumbnail support added.
1.4.1
- Added second parameter to keep out the_content filter and display exactly what is in the content.
1.4
- Display by slug (post_name) or id
- Slug class added to widget so you can target text-blocks easier with CSS
1.3
- Added ability to set wpautop in widget
- Also added filter to target widget code: ‘text_blocks_widget_html’
1.2
- Bug in widget select box (Thanks Shaun Forsyth)
1.1
- Small bug fixes
1.0
- Initial load of the plugin.