How to remove/disable individual blocks?

Resolved David E. Smith
(@desmith)

5 years, 8 months ago

In the past, when individual Jetpack features were separate modules, there was a (relatively) simple way to disable individual parts. (hooking into jetpack_get_available_modules and unsetting elements of $modules)

What is the “correct” way to remove/disable new blocks? In my case, I wish to make the new Donations block inaccessible to users. Google isn’t being very helpful this morning — almost everything related to “disable blocks” is for disabling the block editor entirely, which is not what I want to do. I just need to disable an individual block.

(Related: Does jetpack.com have a canonical list of the different blocks and modules, and their internal names, for when I need to disable different parts?)

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Plugin Contributor csonnek
(@csonnek)

Happiness Rocketeer 🚀

5 years, 8 months ago

@desmith Thanks for getting in touch!

All the hooks and filters we have on our developer.jetpack.com site were all created pre-block editor, so that particular filter won’t impact any of the new blocks.

This is a bit out of scope for our support forums here, but I encourage you to open a new request on our GitHub repository for the development team for consideration because that seems like something we should have!

You can open a new issue here:
https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/new

Sorry I couldn’t be more help here – but let us know if we can help with anything else!
Plugin Author Jeremy Herve
(@jeherve)

Jetpack Mechanic 🚀

5 years, 7 months ago
I’m a bit late to the party, but I figured I’d chime in since other site owners may want to do the same thing in the future.

I first would like to mention this plugin. It can be used to manage blocks on your site; it allows you to disable blocks you don’t want to make available to anyone on your site:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-manager

If you’d rather not add another plugin, you could use the jetpack_register_gutenberg_extensions action:
https://developer.jetpack.com/hooks/jetpack_register_gutenberg_extensions/

Here is how you can use the action to disable the Donations block:
```
/**
 * Disable Jetpack's Donations block.
 */
function jetpackcom_disable_donations_block() {
	if ( ! class_exists( 'Jetpack_Gutenberg' ) ) {
		return;
	}
	
	Jetpack_Gutenberg::set_extension_unavailable(
		'jetpack/donations',
		'no_donations_for_you'
	);
}
add_action( 'jetpack_register_gutenberg_extensions', 'jetpackcom_disable_donations_block', 99 );
```
Does jetpack.com have a canonical list of the different blocks and modules, and their internal names, for when I need to disable different parts?

You cannot find this on Jetpack.com, but you can check the “production” list in this file on your installation of Jetpack:
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jetpack/tags/8.9.1/_inc/blocks/index.json

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