Title: Blockbuddy
Author: Aaron Rutley
Published: <strong>February 24, 2019</strong>
Last modified: February 24, 2019

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Blockbuddy

 By [Aaron Rutley](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aaronrutley/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/blockbuddy.0.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockbuddy/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockbuddy/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockbuddy/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/blockbuddy/)

## Description

A plugin to extend WordPress Gutenberg editor and allow for dynamic blocks to be
built using custom queries.

### Custom Query Block

Our first block, Custom Query Block allow for dynamic blocks to be built using custom
queries.

The Custom Query Block comes with 3 basic templates which are stored in the plugin`/
templates` directory.

You can override or create your own templates for the block to use by creating a`/
template-parts/blocks/` sub folder in your theme.
 The plugin will scan active themes
for this directory and pull in all PHP templates from this directory so you can 
select them via the Custom Query Block inspector settings.

Templates can contain anything you like and you’ll have access to the `$attributes`
array which has all the selection data for
 that particular block, as well as the`
$post_query` object for that block.

#### Features

 * Developer Friendly
 * User Friendly
 * Custom Templates

## Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

 *   Custom Query

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2225189e8044df879b3326c1371fcd0b2ce35b545f212ee06d580bab8c273539?
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### 󠀁[Timeless](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeless-3/)󠁿

 [cvladan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cvladan/) June 8, 2023

Even after 4 years (really?), I find this plugin useful in the absence of other 
blocks that display dynamic content. The only thing missing from this plugin is 
instructions, but I believe the author isn’t interested in maintaining them. Nonetheless,
thank you for the plugin, which still works flawlessly on PHP8.

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## Contributors & Developers

“Blockbuddy” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Aaron Rutley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aaronrutley/)

[Translate “Blockbuddy” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/blockbuddy)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blockbuddy/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/blockbuddy/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/blockbuddy/) by 
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/blockbuddy/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.1

 * Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.1.0**
 * Tags
 * [block](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/block/)[gutenberg](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gutenberg/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockbuddy/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Aaron Rutley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aaronrutley/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/blockbuddy/)