# Essential Blocks

> Essential Blocks For Gutenberg: Ultimate Blocks Library For Gutenberg

- Type: Plugin
- Category: Blocks
- Vendor: Essential Blocks
- Website: https://essential-blocks.com/
- Starting price: $39/year
- Free version: Yes
- Refund window: 14 days
- Our score: 8.7/10 (WordPress.org)
- Black Friday 2026: Not announced
- Page: https://thefreakyblog.com/essential-blocks/

Ultimate Blocks Library: Over 100,000 users with 45+ powerful blocks. Essential Blocks is the ultimate Gutenberg blocks library for WordPress to add power to the block editor & create stunning websites. Goodbye to writer’s block; get instant titles & copies for every section.

## Key features

- **70+ advanced blocks**: Blocks for layout, content, forms, social feeds and marketing sections in the block editor.
- **Ready templates**: Access to 6,000+ ready templates for Gutenberg.
- **WooCommerce blocks**: Product grids and carousels for online stores.
- **Global block styling**: Save block styles and set consistent headings, text, links and buttons across a site.
- **Modular control**: Enable only the blocks a site uses to keep load times low.
- **Dynamic tags and ACF support**: Pull dynamic content into blocks, including Advanced Custom Fields data.
- **WPML compatibility**: Translate blocks with WPML for multilingual sites.

## Pricing

| Plan | Price | Sites |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Starter | $39/year | 1 |
| Innovator | $112/year | 5 |
| Visionary | $244/year | 100 |
| Visionary Lifetime | $299 lifetime | 100 |

## Pros

- Free version is listed on WordPress.org
- Blocks can be switched off individually to keep pages light
- Pro plans cover multiple sites, including 100-site plans
- 14-day money-back guarantee on Pro plans

## Cons

- Pro blocks need a paid plan and the free plugin must stay active
- Updates and premium support stop when a license expires
- Some WordPress.org support threads report difficulty changing colors across blocks

## Best for

- Sites built with the WordPress block editor
- Agencies building client sites on Gutenberg

## Ratings

- WordPress.org: 4.9/5 (216 reviews)

## Alternatives

- WPZOOM Themes
- Wwwows Themes
- MaxiBlocks Cloud

## More

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- Review: https://thefreakyblog.com/essential-blocks/review/
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- Coupon: https://thefreakyblog.com/essential-blocks/coupon/