Title: Zealblocks (Beta) Author: Aman Dubey Published: September 19, 2026 Last modified: October 2, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/zealblocks/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3703317) # Zealblocks (Beta) By [Aman Dubey](https://profiles.wordpress.org/amandubey/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/zealblocks.0.0.2-beta.zip) * [Details](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/zealblocks/#description) * [Reviews](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/zealblocks/#reviews) * [Installation](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/zealblocks/#installation) * [Development](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/zealblocks/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/zealblocks/) ## Description Zealblocks adds blocks that build on WordPress 7.1’s block API instead of duplicating it. Core’s typography, colour, spacing and border controls — and core’s per-viewport style states — are declared as supports and inherited, not reimplemented. What Zealblocks adds is the part core leaves out. #### Blocks * **Icon** — an SVG icon from the WordPress icon library, with flip, free rotation and a proper decorative/meaningful accessibility choice. * **Text** — a paragraph with a visual style preset: Display, H1–H6, Lead, Body, Caption or Eyebrow, chosen independently of the theme’s default paragraph sizing. * **Buttons** — a flex container for one or more buttons, with block gap, padding and wide/full alignment. * **Button** — a button-style link with an optional icon, and per-viewport width and icon size. #### 1,992 icons, shared by every block The Icon and Button blocks draw from one bundled library of 1,992 Font Awesome Free icons, searchable and grouped into 68 categories. A block stores only the icon’s name, so the artwork is resolved when the page renders — post content stays small, and an updated icon set applies to pages already published. The picker loads its artwork only when you open it, so an editor session that never picks an icon never downloads one. Icons are marked up correctly for assistive technology: leave the alternative text empty and the icon is hidden from screen readers as decoration; set it and the icon is announced as content. That distinction is the most commonly missed part of icon accessibility. #### The typographic scale follows your theme The Text block’s presets are emitted as classes, and each one resolves through your theme’s own `theme.json` font-size presets before falling back to a fluid clamp(). So a theme with a real type scale drives the look, a theme without one still renders sensibly, and a theme can override the whole scale in one place. Nothing is written as an inline style, which is what would otherwise beat the theme permanently. The Eyebrow preset — the small uppercase label that sits above a heading — has no equivalent in core, and is the one most often faked with an undersized H6. #### On responsive values WordPress 7.1 emits per-viewport CSS for its own style paths, so Zealblocks does not need to reinvent that and does not try to. Where Zealblocks adds a property core has no support for, it stores the value inside core’s own `style` attribute under a namespaced key, in core’s viewport-state shape, and generates the CSS using core’s media queries: ``` style.zealblocks.width for the base layer, `style.@tablet.zealblocks.width` ``` and `style.@mobile.zealblocks.width` for the overrides. Icon size uses the same shape under `iconSize`. The breakpoints come from `WP_Theme_JSON::get_viewport_media_queries()`, which reads `settings.viewport` from theme.json. Change your breakpoints there and Zealblocks follows, because it never had its own. Desktop is the base layer rather than a third band, matching core: it carries no media query and applies at every width, so Mobile falls back to the base value when unset, never to Tablet. #### Icons Any icon from the bundled library, positionable left or right. Position is done with `flex-direction: row-reverse` rather than `order`, so the DOM order stays text- then-icon and the button’s accessible name is unaffected by where the icon appears. Icons are marked `aria-hidden` — they are decorative, and the button text is the accessible name. Directional icons can be set to mirror in right-to-left languages. It is opt-in per block, because an arrow should flip and a clock should not. #### Privacy Zealblocks does not collect, store or transmit any data. It makes no external network requests, sets no cookies, and creates no database tables. It registers two REST routes under `zealblocks/v1`, used by the editor to look up icon names and artwork. Both require the `edit_posts` capability, read only from files bundled with the plugin, and are never called by the front end. #### Credits Icons are from Font Awesome Free 7.3.1, licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://fontawesome. com/license/free). Font Awesome is a trademark of Fonticons, Inc. ## Blocks This plugin provides 4 blocks. * Icon An SVG icon from the WordPress icon library, with flip and rotation controls. * Text Text with a visual style chosen independently of the theme’s default sizing. * Buttons Prompt visitors to take action with a group of button-style links. * Button Prompt visitors to take action with a button-style link. ## Installation 1. Upload the plugin through **Plugins > Add New**, or extract the ZIP into `wp-content/ plugins/`. 2. Activate **Zealblocks** through the **Plugins** menu. 3. In the editor, insert **Buttons** from the **Zealblocks** category in the block inserter. 4. Select a button and open the **Styles** tab to find **Custom Width** and **Icon Size**. To set a per-viewport value, switch the editor preview to Tablet or Mobile with Responsive styles enabled, then change the value. With Responsive styles off, a narrow preview edits the base layer — the same behaviour as core’s controls. ## FAQ ### Why does it require WordPress 7.1? Per-viewport style states are a 7.1 feature. The controls read and write core’s viewport-state layers and detect which state the editor is in from core’s own slots, none of which exist earlier. On WordPress 6.x the controls would appear to work while writing values the editor could not show back to you. ### Where do the breakpoints come from? WP_Theme_JSON::get_viewport_media_queries(), which reads `settings.viewport` from your theme.json. The defaults are 480px for mobile and 782px for tablet, identical to core’s. Zealblocks has no breakpoints of its own to configure. ### Why is Desktop not listed alongside Tablet and Mobile? Because Desktop is the base layer, not a breakpoint. A value set on Desktop carries no media query and therefore applies at every width; Tablet and Mobile are overrides on top of it. This is core’s model, and following it is what makes Mobile fall back to your Desktop value rather than to your Tablet value. ### Can I use these buttons inside core’s Buttons block? No. This plugin’s Button declares `zealblocks/buttons` as its parent, so it can only be inserted into a Buttons container. The container supplies the flex layout and block gap the button expects. ### Does it work with Full Site Editing and template parts? Yes. The per-viewport CSS goes through the WordPress style engine — the same path core uses for its own per-viewport styles — and is printed once with wp_add_inline_style(): in the head on block themes, in the footer on classic themes. Nothing is emitted inline next to the block. ### Does it add any front-end JavaScript? No. Every block renders server-side in PHP and ships no front-end script. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Zealblocks (Beta)” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Aman Dubey ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/amandubey/) [Translate “Zealblocks (Beta)” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/zealblocks) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zealblocks/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/zealblocks/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/zealblocks/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/zealblocks/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.0.2-beta * Icon library: 1,992 Font Awesome Free icons in 68 categories, shared by the Icon and Button blocks. * Icon picker with search, category filtering and a virtualised grid. * The Icon block now uses this library instead of core’s icon registry. Icons saved with a previous version must be re-selected. * Buttons can mirror a directional icon in right-to-left languages. * Marked beta. #### 0.0.1 * Initial release. * Buttons container block with flex layout, block gap, padding and wide/full alignment. * Button block with link controls, four icons, and left/right icon position. * Per-viewport Custom Width and Icon Size using WordPress 7.1 style states and core’s viewport media queries. ## Meta * Version **0.0.2-beta** * Last updated **1 hour ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 7.1 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.2** * PHP version ** 8.1 or higher ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/zealblocks/) * Tags * [beta](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/beta/)[blocks](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/blocks/) [button](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/button/)[icons](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/icons/) [responsive](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/responsive/) * [Advanced View](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/zealblocks/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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