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50 free Gutenberg blocks. Full-featured, and free forever.

Asteris Blocks gives you a polished, alphabetised block library covering everything you need to build landing pages, blog posts, and product pages. Every block is complete — nothing is locked behind a paywall, and the plugin never nags you to upgrade.

What you get

50 blocks — Hero, Pricing Table, FAQ Accordion (with schema), Recipe Card (with rich results), Comparison Table, Countdown, Cookie Notice, Code Block with syntax highlighter, Image Hotspots, Map (OpenStreetMap), QR Code, Before/After Slider, Table of Contents, and 37 more.
12 pre-built patterns — Hero + Stats, Pricing 3-tier, Full landing page, and more — one-click insert.
60 block style variations — Hero (minimal / split / gradient), Feature Grid (cards / icons-only / bordered / numbered), Pricing (classic / minimal / bordered / highlighted), and dozens more.
Newsletter integrations — Mailchimp, MailerLite, ConvertKit, Brevo. API keys encrypted at rest (AES-256-CBC). See “External services” below.
Schema.org markup — FAQ + Recipe + AggregateRating JSON-LD validates on Google Rich Results Test.
HTML anchor IDs on every block — link anywhere, jump anywhere.
Native typography + colour controls on every text-bearing block.
100/100 Lighthouse accessibility on Kadence, GeneratePress, Twenty Twenty-Five.

What you do NOT get

No email-gated features — every one of the 50 blocks is fully functional, free.
No nag screens, no pop-ups, no “your trial expires” timers in your editor.
No tracking. No cookies. No analytics. The only outbound connections are the optional third-party services listed under “External services” below, and they run only when you add the relevant block to a page or configure a newsletter provider.

Asteris Blocks is full-featured and free forever — funded by our other products, not by upselling you. If you ever want premium section patterns and pro-level design controls, thereÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s an optional Asteris Blocks Pro — but the free plugin is complete on its own and never pushes you toward it.

Why Asteris Blocks?

Built lean on purpose. HereÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s what you actually get:

Tiny footprint — about 215 KB zipped, and it loads zero front-end CSS or JavaScript on pages that donÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’t use an Asteris block.
Only loads where itÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s used — the shared stylesheet and script enqueue only on pages where one of your Asteris blocks actually renders. No site-wide weight.
No JavaScript framework — blocks render in PHP with tiny vanilla-JS view scripts; no React or jQuery dependency dragged onto your front end.
50 blocks, 12 patterns, 60 style variations — all free — nothing gated, no “premium” lock icons cluttering the inserter.
Schema built in — FAQ, Recipe and AggregateRating JSON-LD that validates on GoogleÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s Rich Results Test, no separate SEO plugin required.
No phone-home — no tracking, no cookies, no analytics on you. The only outbound calls are blocks you choose to add (Map, Video, embeds) — each documented below.
Accessibility-minded — 100/100 Lighthouse accessibility on Kadence, GeneratePress and Twenty Twenty-Five.
GPL-2.0 — audit it, fork it, keep it forever.
No nag screens — Pro is mentioned once, never a pop-up or a disabled button.

Asteris Blocks Pro

Asteris Blocks is full-featured and free forever. If you want to go further, the optional Asteris Blocks Pro adds:

73 premium section patterns — niche page templates (photographer, music artist, conference, salon, fitness), video + audio sections, premium e-commerce layouts.
The control layer — fine-tune any blockÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s spacing, responsive visibility, hover states, animations and custom CSS, no code required.
AI Section Generator — describe a section and get a ready-to-edit block layout.
Cloud pattern library — one-click insert from a growing hosted collection.

Same lightweight, no-bloat build. See everything included at asterisblocks.com/blocks-pro.

External services

This plugin can connect to the following third-party services. None of them are contacted unless you add the block that uses them to a page, or configure a newsletter provider. No data is sent to us.

Newsletter providers (optional). When you configure a provider and a visitor submits the Newsletter block, the visitorÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s email address (and name, if entered) is sent from your server to that providerÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s API to create or subscribe the contact. You choose the provider and supply the API key.

Mailchimp — terms: https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/ — privacy: https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/
MailerLite — terms: https://www.mailerlite.com/terms-of-service — privacy: https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy
ConvertKit (Kit) — terms: https://kit.com/terms — privacy: https://kit.com/privacy
Brevo — terms: https://www.brevo.com/legal/termsofuse/ — privacy: https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/

OpenStreetMap (Map block). Adding the Map block embeds a map from openstreetmap.org. When a visitor loads the page, their browser requests map tiles from OpenStreetMap. Terms: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use — privacy: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy

YouTube / Vimeo (Video block). Adding a video embeds a player from youtube-nocookie.com or player.vimeo.com when a visitor plays it. YouTube terms: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms — Google privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy — Vimeo terms: https://vimeo.com/terms — Vimeo privacy: https://vimeo.com/privacy

Spotify / SoundCloud (Embed block). Adding the Embed block with a Spotify or SoundCloud URL embeds that providerÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s player. When a visitor loads the page, their browser requests the player and the track/episode you embedded from open.spotify.com or w.soundcloud.com. Only the public URL you paste into the block is sent. Spotify terms: https://www.spotify.com/legal/end-user-agreement/ — Spotify privacy: https://www.spotify.com/legal/privacy-policy/ — SoundCloud terms: https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use — SoundCloud privacy: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy

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Inserter with all 50 Asteris blocks alphabetised under the star ASTERIS category.

Sales page -- 50 free Gutenberg blocks, live on WordPress.org. — Inserter with all 50 Asteris blocks alphabetised under the star ASTERIS category.

Ìgbéwọlẹ̀

Upload the plugin via Plugins -> Add New -> Upload Plugin, or install from WordPress.org.
Activate.
Open any page or post Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: — type “asteris” in the inserter to see all 50 blocks alphabetically.
(Optional) Settings -> Asteris Blocks to configure a newsletter provider.

FAQ

Is this really free forever?: Yes. All 50 blocks are free, with no email-gated upgrades and no “unlock more blocks” overlays — every block here works fully, forever. We fund it from our other paid products. ThereÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s an optional Asteris Blocks Pro for premium section patterns and advanced design controls, but itÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s entirely separate and the free plugin never nags you about it.
What happens at v2.0? Will you start charging?: No. Asteris Blocks stays free regardless of how many users sign up.
Does it work with my theme?: Tested on Astra, Kadence, GeneratePress, Twenty Twenty-Five, and Storefront. Should work on any WP 6.4+ theme.
Will it conflict with my page builder?: It is built for the native WordPress block editor (Gutenberg). It will not show inside Elementor / Divi / Beaver Builder.
Where do I report bugs?: Email support@asteriscommerce.com.

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dansart Agẹmọ 1, 2026 1 ìdáhùn

I liked the large amount of blocks, although they seem to be a little bit unfinished at times and they cannot be customized a lot. Also missing are some comfort features, like having a color picker.Some things like how the cookie notice banner actually works, are a little bit unclear.

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1.0.0

Stable 1.0 release.
Fix: the full custom colour picker (the “rainbow” spectrum), custom gradients, and WordPressÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s default colour palette are now reliably available on every blockÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s colour controls — even on themes whose theme.json turns custom colours off. (0.4.0 attempted this but only toggled a legacy flag that modern WordPress ignores.)
Everything from 0.4.0 below.

0.4.0

Colour + border controls on every block, and real colour-swatch pickers replacing the old type-a-hex fields.
Full custom colour picker (the “rainbow” spectrum) + custom gradients are now available on every blockÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s colour controls — even on themes that disable custom colours in the editor.
New: site-wide cookie bar. Turn it on once in Settings Asteris Blocks and the consent bar shows on every page and disappears for good once the visitor accepts or declines — no need to place the block in a footer template.
Cookie Notice now broadcasts the visitorÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s choice (WP Consent API, dataLayer, and a JS event) so your tag manager or consent plugin can gate scripts — and the editor explains what it does.
Rich text (bold/italic/links) in FAQ, Accordion and Tabs; Recipe ingredients & instructions are now add/remove lists.
Recipe Card editor now shows the full card as you build it — image (or placeholder), name, description, times, and the live ingredients + instructions lists — matching exactly what visitors see.
Neutral starter content (no sample marketing copy), clearer descriptions, and polish fixes (non-Latin read-time, recipe times, newsletter consent, accessible social labels, animated stats).

0.3.15

New: one-click Starter Content importer (Settings Asteris Blocks). Builds Home, About, Services, Pricing and Contact pages from the active themeÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s full-page patterns and sets Home as the front page. User-initiated, idempotent (never overwrites your edits), and makes no remote calls. Designed to pair with the free Asteris theme.

0.3.14

Listing: added a “Why Asteris Blocks?” section (tiny footprint, assets load only where a block renders, no phone-home) plus a clear “Asteris Blocks Pro” overview of what the optional paid add-on includes. Aligned the internal version constant with the plugin header. No change to any blockÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s behaviour or output.

0.3.9

WordPress.org review fixes. (1) JSON-LD output in the FAQ, Recipe and Star Rating blocks now uses JSON_HEX_TAG so any “” sequence in user content is escaped — closing a script-context breakout risk. (2) The five landing-page patterns (agency, course, podcast, restaurant, SaaS) no longer reference remote placeholder images; they use the pluginÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s bundled local placeholder instead — no external image calls. (3) The “External services” section now also documents the Embed blockÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s optional Spotify and SoundCloud players (what is sent, when, with terms + privacy links). No functional change for existing pages.

0.3.8

Performance + Plugin Check: the shared front-end stylesheet and script are no longer loaded on every page. They are now registered as handles and referenced per block (block.json “style”/”viewScript”), so WordPress loads them only on pages where an Asteris block is actually present. Clears the last two Plugin Check warnings (EnqueuedStylesScope / EnqueuedScriptsScope) — report is now 0 errors / 0 warnings — and speeds up every page that doesnÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’t use a block.

0.3.7

Plugin Check: each blockÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s server render template now runs inside a scoped closure, so its working variables are truly function-local instead of file-scope. This clears all remaining PrefixAllGlobals warnings (report is now 0 errors / 0 warnings) and hardens the templates against accidental global-scope pollution if a file is ever included directly. No functional or output change.

0.3.6

Tidy: removed the Docs / Support / GitHub meta links from the Plugins-screen row. No functional change.

0.3.5

Plugin Check: cleared the remaining actionable warnings. Newsletter rate-limiter now unslashes + sanitises the client IP at the source ($_SERVER reads), the two read-only admin-screen GET flags carry justified nonce-exemption notes, and the redundant load_plugin_textdomain() call was removed (WordPress 4.6+ auto-loads translations for .org-hosted plugins). No functional change.

0.3.4

Plugin Check: cleared all reported errors. Block render output is now explicitly escaped (wp_kses_post around wpautop, tag_escape on dynamic tag names, esc_html/integer casts on counters and star strings, esc_url on the newsletter form action, sniff-named ignores on trusted inline SVG and inner-block HTML), and every placeholder string now carries a “translators:” comment (coupon, hotspots, QR, social share, star rating, team). No functional change.

0.3.3

Privacy: the QR Code block is now generated entirely in your visitorÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s browser (bundled MIT qrcode-generator library) — it no longer calls the api.qrserver.com third-party service, so the QR data never leaves your site.
Compliance: added an “External services” section documenting every remaining optional third-party connection — newsletter providers (Mailchimp, MailerLite, ConvertKit, Brevo), OpenStreetMap (Map block) and YouTube/Vimeo (Video block) — including what data is sent and links to each serviceÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s terms and privacy policy. Corrected the privacy summary accordingly: these run only when you add the relevant block or configure a provider.
Packaging: the patterns directory is now included in the distributed build, so all block patterns register correctly.
i18n: pattern titles/categories are registered with literal strings (no translate-with-variable), for a clean Plugin Check pass.
Docs: Brevo is now listed in the feature description (four newsletter providers).
Housekeeping: stable tag, plugin header version and changelog aligned; build excludes dev-only files.

0.2.4

Fix: PHP 8.1 deprecation notice (“strip_tags(): Passing null”) that appeared on activation when the welcome page rendered. Hidden welcome page now registers under a real parent (options-general.php) then hides itself from the submenu, instead of using the deprecated empty-string parent slug.

0.2.3

Security: Social Share block now sanitises $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] before passing to home_url() (wp_unslash + sanitize_text_field). Defence-in-depth — downstream output was already escaped, but sanitises at the source per WordPress.org review guidelines.
Compat: Tested up to WordPress 7.0.
Docs: Screenshots section expanded to cover all 10 .org submission images.

0.2.2

New: Brevo (Sendinblue) — 4th newsletter provider.
New: 5 industry landing-page patterns — SaaS, Agency, Course, Podcast, Restaurant.
Phase 4 audit: early-return guards added to Coupon, Pullquote, Author Box, Team Grid for empty-state safety.
Test: Unicode, RTL, emoji, 10K+ character strings, 500-item arrays — all render cleanly.

0.2.1

New: Plugin row Settings / Docs / Support / GitHub links.
New: Post-install welcome screen.
New: Test Connection buttons on Settings page.
New: Privacy policy declaration (we collect zero data).
New: Editor preview CSS for block style variations.
New: Pattern viewport widths for cleaner inserter previews.
Security: wp_unslash on all newsletter inputs.
Fix: Newsletter REST email param now sanitised after unslash.
Asset: LICENSE file (GPL-2.0+) added.
Asset: plugin icon (128/256), banner (772/1544), OG image generated.
Asset: uninstall.php cleans plugin options + transients.
i18n: load_plugin_textdomain wired; .pot template included.

0.2.0

New: 60 block style variations across 14 blocks.
New: 12 pre-built block patterns in 7 categories.
New: Newsletter integration adapters Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: — Mailchimp, MailerLite, ConvertKit.
New: AES-256-CBC encryption for API keys at rest.
New: Honeypot + per-IP rate limiting on newsletter REST endpoint.
New: CTA Banner background image + overlay opacity.
Refactor: Code Block copy-to-clipboard reads from

pre> instead of data-copy attribute.

0.1.0

Initial release Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: — 50 blocks, alphabetised inserter, schema.org markup.