Caxton – Create Pro page layouts in Gutenberg

Description

Caxton is a collection of awesome blocks that makes it easy for you to create beautiful WordPress pages

Don’t just take our word for it. This is what Matt Mullenweg said…

Matt Mullenweg – WordPress founder

The sites people are creating with it are just gorgeous. It’s going to open up a level of creativity and expression for an audience that’s literally never had it. It’s like people are going to get new notes on a keyboard they can play, or a new voice they can sing with…
Source wptavern.com

We made a little video

Blocks included

  • Advanced layout block
  • Shape Dividers Block
  • Posts grid Block
  • Photo slider Block
  • Call To Action Block
  • Typography Block
  • Icons Block
  • Button Block

Functionality

  • Add backgrounds to sections
  • Create nested rows
  • Create full width sections
  • Create parallax rows
  • Create beautiful transitions between Blocks
  • Awesome customisation controls for each Block
  • Advanced mobile controls

We’ve put together a live interactive site here where you can test Caxton for yourself.

See Matt Mullenweg feature Caxton Blocks at WordCamp US

Screenshots

  • Blocks menu
  • Block settings
  • Block preview
  • Wave block divider
  • Tilt block divider
  • Book block divider
  • Book block divider on column

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

  • Posts grid

Installation

Automatic installation is the easiest way to install Caxton.
From your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New. In the search field type Caxton and click Search Plugins. Find Caxton plugin and install it by simply clicking “Install Now”.

For manual installation…
1. Upload the caxton folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the \’Plugins\’ menu in WordPress
3. Start using blocks!

**Requires Gutenberg until it is a part of WordPress core **

FAQ

I don\’t see any blocks, just my default WordPress editor?

Make sure you have Gutenberg installed and are using Gutenberg editor (not the old editor).

Where can I log bugs?

You can log bugs on our Github repository https://github.com/pootlepress/caxton/issues/

How can I contribute?

You can contribute by forking code at Github https://github.com/pootlepress/caxton/

When can I see more blocks?

With WordPress including Gutenberg in core in WP v5. We will be adding more and more blocks real soon 😉

Reviews

February 14, 2023
It gets the job done, but in my opinion it's not ideal, and it's not intuitive. If you choose to use this, you need to spend a lot more time familiarizing yourself with documentation than something like Elementor. When clicking around in the builder, there are a lot of clicks that you're unsure as to what you're doing. Sometimes you're using on the column, sometimes the entire block, but it's unclear what click leads to which selection.
February 4, 2020
I was looking for something that will allow me to insert creative page dividers...there's plenty out there, but the simplicity of this plugin force me to have a closer look. After playing around with the dividers (worked fantastically) I started using the other blocks: layouts, icons, hero...and seriously, withing a couple of hours (mostly me tweaking) I have something that looks great. The blocks' options are very well layed out and organized. This means that the properties you tweak on one block are very similar to the other block, so learning curve is not steep at all. I don't like Page Builders at all, this is the closest I will get to one. Give it a shot, I really think it's a superb product!
June 6, 2019
I've tried many, maybe all, Gutenberg Blocks plugins, but I find this very useful and well done. Try it yourself. Very useful! Congratulations.
April 23, 2019
I appreciate the cutting-edgeness of this plugin. CSS grids? I almost couldn't believe my eyes. the balls! It's such a nice alternative for all the other "page builders" out there, trying to take care of each single medieval browser, while bloating like a flipping exploding red giant from all the patches and scripts and elements and they throw in there meanwhile absolutely positioning everything with nails and glue to ... sorry I'm rambling. Great plugin!
April 10, 2019
Very useful collection of blocks for Gutenberg. Technical support is fast and efficient!
Read all 18 reviews

Contributors & Developers

“Caxton – Create Pro page layouts in Gutenberg” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

Version 1.30.1
* 2023-07-19
* Dev – Remove freemius SDK.

Version 1.30.0
* 2022-02-27
* Fix – Fix deprecated block_categories filter hook.
* Fix – FSE styles compatibility
* Tweak – FSE styles and scripts compatibility
* Tweak – Caxton block registration tweaks
* Tweak – Block editing UI controls tweaks

Version 1.27.0
* 2020-10-09
* Fix – Alignment toolbar not working
* Fix – Caxton layout UI
* Tweak – Editor UI enhancements
* Dev – New time field type
* Dev – Save all block attributes as text
* Dev – CaxtonLayoutOptionsBlock init function supports additional custom attributes
* Dev – Utility CSS classes

Version 1.26.0
* 2020-07-20
* Tweak – WP 5.5 compatibility
* Tweak – New .nowrap class
* Tweak – Layout options UI styles
* Dev – New number field
* Dev – Innerblocks min height inheriting improved

Version 1.25.0
* 2020-07-10
* New – Ordered select field (orderedSelect) now supports searching
* New – Ordered select field (orderedSelect) now supports drag and drop sorting
* New – Justify text option
* Fix – Button text colored like paragraphs
* Fix – Font Awesome v5 in Caxton breaking themes using v4
* Dev – Innerblocks now inherit min height

Version 1.24.0
* 2020-06-01
* Fix – Mobile layout settings not working

Version 1.23.0
* 2020-05-12
* Fix – Caxton block difficult to select (hover label not showing up)
* Internal – Wrapper props callback called after setting block attributes
* Tweak – New attribute data-rwd on body set to mobile, tablet or desktop

Version 1.22.0
* 2020-04-24
* New – Datepicker control datetime type.
* New – CaxtonContentBlock wrapper functions for innerblocks.
* Fix – Grid elements should inherit color in gutenberg.
* Fix – Google fonts not working (for fonts with space character).
* Tweak – Resizable and dynamic conflict resolved.
* Dev – Caxton.el to create react element.

Version 1.21.0
* 2020-03-16
* Fix – Block errors
* Tweak – Performance tweaks
* Tweak – WP 5.4 compatibility
* Dev – Resizable blocks support
* Dev – User Interaction JS

Version 1.20.0
* 2020-01-24
* Performance – Uses svg icons to just load the icons being used
* Performance – FlexSlider not loaded unless used on the page
* New – Flex block
* Fix – FlexSlider container not covering slides.
* Tweak – Gutenberg v7.2 compatibility
* Dev – New background field type

Version 1.10.0
* 2019-07-03
* Fix – Gutenberg 5.9.0 compatibility
* Tweak – Updated Font awesome

Version 1.9.0
* 2019-06-06
* New – ‘Horizontal blocks beta’ block
* Tweak – Updated FS SDK
* Tweak – New block type

Version 1.8.2.1
* 2019-02-27
* Tweak – Updated FS SDK

Version 1.8.2
* 2019-02-25
* Fix – Keep layout block grid responsive by default

Version 1.8.1
* 2019-02-11
* Fix – Fixing single column breaking layouts.

Version 1.8.0
* 2019-02-06
* Fix – MS Edge layout breaking.
* New – Responsive layouts for Caxton Layout block
* Tweak – Freemius SDK updated

Version 1.7.2.1
* 2018-12-17
* Tweak – Adding compatibility files

Version 1.7.2
* 2018-12-17
* New – Improved full width preview in Admin
* Fix – Twenty Nineteen compatibility
* Fix – Full width blocks not working in a few themes
* Tweak – Shape divider block improved compatibility

Version 1.7.1
* 2018-11-28
* Tweak – Bring back admin page for Freemius

Version 1.7.0
* 2018-11-28
* New – Shape divider block
* Tweak – UI improvements

Version 1.6.2
* 2018-11-21
* Fix – Gutenberg v4.5 Compatibility

Version 1.6.1
* 2018-11-14
* Fix – Gutenberg v4.3 Compatibility

Version 1.6.0
* 2018-11-09
* Fix – Gutenberg v4 Compatibility
* Minor block tweaks

Version 1.5.0
* 2018-10-01
* New – Caxton Layout block – Beautiful masonry layouts for Gutenberg without writing any code
* New – Caxton Section block – Beautiful masonry layouts for WordPress without writing any code.

Version 1.0.0
* 2018-09-17
* Tweak – Uses of withAPIData removed
* Fixed – Hero block columns broken
* Dev – New apiCallback and apiUrl params for CaxtonBlock constructor
* Dev – Now using ES6 for JS scripting

Version 0.7.0
* 2018-06-04
* New – Field section supported
* New – Field template supported, %s in tpl replaced with value
* New – Icon picker field – Search and Pick any of the font awesome icons for Gutenberg
* New – Alignment toolbars support
* New – Super hero block – Full height hero, Full width hero, Full screen hero with custom gradients, gradient background
* New – Super text block – Fully customizable typography block, font, letter spacing, calligraphy
* New – Super button block – Fully customizable buttons, font, letter spacing, background and text color, calligraphy.
* New – Super icon block – Font awesome icons with customizable size, color, outline, shapes (circle/curved square/square)
* New – Improved editor support for Full width
* Tweak – Caxton posts grid responsive
* Fix – Bug which causes issues while editing multiple blocks

Version 0.5.0
* 2018-04-10
* New – Hero template
* New – 2 col hero template
* New – Social share icons
* Fix – Posts grid not working

Version 0.1.2.1
* 02-02-2018
* Tweak – Query only public posts in posts endpoint, Thanks again Ov3rfly 🙂
* Tweak – Posts endpoint – Disallowed setting password, permissions and cache parameters

Version 0.1.1
* 01-02-2018
* Tweak – Securing posts endpoint Thanks Ov3rfly 🙂

Version 0.1.0
THIS IS BETA VERSION PLEASE BACKUP YOUR SITE BEFORE TESTING THIS PLUGIN