Description
ZepBlocks is a lightweight yet powerful Gutenberg block plugin designed for everyone — whether you’re a complete beginner or an experienced developer. It extends the WordPress block editor with a carefully crafted set of blocks that help you build beautiful, professional websites without touching a single line of code.
Every block is built with performance and flexibility in mind. No bloat, no unnecessary dependencies — just clean, fast blocks that work seamlessly with any WordPress theme.
Included Blocks
- Zepblock Slider – A smooth, fully customizable image slider to showcase your content beautifully
- Zepblock Timeline – Present events, milestones, or processes in a stunning vertical or horizontal timeline
- Card Block – Display content in clean, stylish card layouts — great for services, features, or blog highlights
- Feature Block – Highlight your key features or services with icons, titles, and descriptions
- Hero Video – Capture attention instantly with a full-width hero section powered by background video
- Image Compare – Let visitors interactively compare two images with a drag-to-reveal slider
- Photo Gallery – Create beautiful, responsive photo galleries with lightbox support
- Post Block – Display your latest posts or custom post types in a customizable grid or list layout
- WooCommerce Category Grid – Showcase your WooCommerce product categories in an elegant grid
- WooCommerce Product List – Display WooCommerce products in a flexible, filterable list or grid
- Breaking News – Display breaking news
- Count Down – Display count down
Why ZepBlocks?
- Beginner-friendly – Drag, drop, and customize without any coding knowledge
- Developer-friendly – Clean, well-structured code that’s easy to extend
- WooCommerce ready – Built-in blocks for WooCommerce category and product display
- Lightweight – Only loads assets for blocks that are actually used on the page
- Theme compatible – Works with any WordPress theme, including Full Site Editing (FSE) themes
- Regularly updated – New blocks added frequently based on user feedback
- 100% Free – No upsells, no pro version, no limitations
Getting Started
- Install and activate ZepBlocks
- Open any post or page in the WordPress block editor
- Click the + icon to add a new block
- Search for any ZepBlocks block by name
- Customize using the block settings panel on the right
🛠️ For Developers
ZepBlocks is built using the @wordpress/scripts toolchain with React and modern JavaScript. All blocks follow WordPress coding standards and are fully compatible with the block editor’s extensibility APIs.
Found a bug or want to contribute? Visit our GitHub repository.
Screenshots
Blocks
This plugin provides 12 blocks.
- Zepblock Slider A beautiful slider block with animations and slick slider
- Image Compare Compare two images with an interactive slider
- Breaking News Ticker Display breaking news with animated ticker
- Zepblock Timeline A beautiful vertical timeline block with alternating left/right items
- Card Block Beautiful card layout with image, tag, title, excerpt, author and button
- Photo Gallery Beautiful responsive photo gallery with lightbox popup and navigation
- Zepblock Product List Display WooCommerce products in a beautiful grid layout
- Feature Block Display features/services with icon, title and description
- Count Down Timer Beautiful countdown timer with title and date. Shows expired message when time is up.
- Post Block Display posts with customizable layout
- Woo Category Grid Display WooCommerce product categories in a beautiful grid layout
- Hero Video Display a hero video with overlay content
Installation
- Go to Plugins > Add New in your WordPress dashboard
- Search for ZepBlocks
- Click Install Now, then Activate
Or manually:
- Download the plugin zip file
- Go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin
- Upload the zip file and click Install Now
- Activate the plugin= Minimum Requirements =
- PHP version 7.4 or greater
- WordPress 5.9 or greater
Automatic Installation
- Log in to your WordPress dashboard
- Navigate to «Plugins» > «Add New»
- Search for «ZepBlocks»
- Click «Install Now» and then «Activate»
Manual Installation
- Download the zepblocks.zip file
- Go to Dashboard > Plugins > Add New
- Click «Upload Plugin»
- Select the zepblocks.zip file and click «Install Now»
- Activate the plugin
FAQ
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Does ZepBlocks work with my theme?
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Yes! ZepBlocks works with any WordPress theme, including classic themes and modern Full Site Editing (FSE) themes.
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Do the WooCommerce blocks require WooCommerce to be installed?
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Yes. The WooCommerce Category Grid and WooCommerce Product List blocks require WooCommerce to be installed and activated. All other blocks work independently without WooCommerce.
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Will ZepBlocks slow down my website?
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No. ZepBlocks uses smart asset enqueuing — it only loads the CSS and JavaScript for blocks that are actually used on a given page.
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Is ZepBlocks really free?
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Yes, 100% free. There is no pro version or hidden upsell. All blocks are fully available at no cost.
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Can I use ZepBlocks with Elementor or other page builders?
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ZepBlocks is built exclusively for the WordPress Gutenberg block editor and is not compatible with classic page builders like Elementor or WPBakery.
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How do I request a new block?
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You can submit block requests via the WordPress.org support forum or our GitHub repository.
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Contributors & Developers
“ZepBlocks – Powerful Gutenberg Block for WordPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.1 [8/10/2026]
- New: Breaking News block
- New: Count Down block
- Security: Input sanitization hardening and Google Fonts URL encoding
- Fix: Missing import issue in Image Compare and Feature blocks
- Fix: Untranslated strings made translation-ready
- Compatibility: Tested up to WordPress 7.1
- Code quality: WordPress Coding Standards (WPCS) compliance and docblock improvements
1.0.0
- Initial release
- 10 blocks included: Zepblock Slider, Zepblock Timeline, Card Block, Feature Block, Hero Video, Image Compare, Photo Gallery, Post Block, WooCommerce Category Grid, WooCommerce Product List