Gutenberg Block Suite: Dynamic & Modern Content Blocks

Gutenberg Block Suite

Target Client: Agencies / Companies seeking React-based, highly performant Gutenberg development.

The Challenge

Dynamic Data: Provide a true, live editor preview of dynamically fetched content (like Posts or Pages).

Performance & Security: Ensure the complex HTML output is generated securely on the server (PHP) to maintain speed and accessibility.

The Solution

We engineered a compact, high-performance plugin showcasing two best-practice block architectures: a server-rendered (Dynamic) block and a client-rendered (Static) block, both built on React and modern ESNext standards.

The project leverages the WordPress REST API and useSelect hooks for editor previews, coupled with a robust PHP render_callback for guaranteed frontend output security and freshness.

Impact And Results

Production Readiness: Blocks are fully built, compiled, and bundled using @wordpress/scripts, resulting in a lightweight, single-file ZIP asset ready for distribution.

Full-Stack Block Mastery: Successfully delivered both dynamic and static block types, the two primary architecture patterns required for advanced block development.

Key Features

Live Data Preview: Uses React's useSelect hook to fetch and display the current content (Posts or Pages) from the REST API directly in the editor.

Optimal Performance: Employs a PHP render_callback and WP_Query to generate the final markup, avoiding slow client-side rendering on the frontend.

Modern Layout: Built using CSS Grid for predictable, responsive layouts, including support for the native Full-Width pattern.

Data Integrity: Securely sanitizes block attributes in PHP before using them in the WP_Query.

Gallery

Video Demo

Like what you see?

Let’s build something together.

Get in touch →