Responsive Block Controls

Description

Responsive Block Controls adds practical responsive controls to supported native Gutenberg blocks. Adjust layouts, spacing, column widths, Query Loop grids, Gallery columns, and Spacer heights without replacing core blocks or moving content into a page builder.

Native WordPress blocks are fast, portable, and theme-friendly, but responsive layout tweaks often still require custom CSS, duplicated blocks, or a full page builder. This plugin keeps your content in native blocks and adds the missing breakpoint controls directly in the block inspector.

Why use it?

• Add responsive controls to supported native Gutenberg blocks.
• Keep existing core blocks, patterns, synced patterns, reusable blocks, and template parts.
• Avoid extra builder markup, shortcodes, and content lock-in.
• Adjust columns, gaps, custom widths, order, Query Loop grids, Gallery layouts, and Spacer heights from the editor sidebar.
• Preserve desktop behavior and theme spacing defaults unless you override them.
• Remove the plugin without breaking the saved content structure.

Supported blocks

Support is added block by block. In this version, responsive controls are available for:

• core/columns — responsive column counts, gap controls, and custom-width mode.
• core/column — per-breakpoint width and order controls when custom-width mode is enabled on the parent Columns block.
• core/post-template inside Query Loop — manual column controls, auto-fit minimum width, responsive gaps, and optional Masonry for supported fixed-column grids.
• core/gallery — responsive columns and gap controls while keeping the native Gallery block.
• core/spacer — tablet and mobile height overrides while keeping the native desktop Spacer height.

How it works

The plugin stores settings as native block attributes and renders a small set of CSS classes and custom properties. It does not register replacement layout blocks and does not wrap your content in custom frontend markup.

Your theme stays in control of the base layout. Responsive Block Controls only applies supported responsive values at the configured breakpoints. If the plugin is removed, WordPress ignores the extra attributes and the blocks fall back to their normal core behavior.

Editor experience

• Responsive controls appear only when the selected block is supported.
• Breakpoint tabs follow desktop, tablet, and mobile editing workflows.
• Smaller breakpoints inherit from larger breakpoints until you override them.
• Gap controls support px, rem, and em values with predictable reset behavior.
• Custom-width Columns layouts support per-column width and simple order controls.
• Query Loop grids support manual columns, auto-fit minimum width, and Masonry guidance where available.
• Spacer height can be customized for tablet and mobile previews.
• Theme spacing defaults are detected when possible.

Accessibility and localization

• Inspector controls are keyboard accessible and labeled for screen readers.
• Strings are translation-ready via the responsive-columns text domain.