Descripción
SKY Blocks turns the block editor into a toolkit for creators’ websites.
Comics, illustrations, novels, fan works… Creator sites need features that ordinary blog themes don’t have: a gallery that reads like a book, a «name changer» for dream novels, a content warning before sensitive works, a clap button to receive feedback. SKY Blocks brings all of them into the block editor — no shortcodes, no extra plugins, no coding.
Available in English and Japanese (日本語).
Made for comics & illustrations
- Decorative Gallery – Show comics and illustrations in a full-screen viewer. Choose horizontal scroll, two-page spread (reads like a book), vertical one-page-at-a-time, or continuous vertical scroll. Images are lazy-loaded, so long comics stay fast.
- Simple Image – A lightweight image block with an optional lightbox (with previous/next navigation) and an option to preload the first-view image for better page speed.
Made for novels & stories
- Name Changer – Readers type their own name, and every
[change]in the page is replaced with it. The name is remembered in the reader’s browser. - Spoiler – Hide text with
[hide]...[/hide]and reveal it with a button. Great for spoilers, quiz answers and hidden notes. - Speech Balloon – Conversation-style balloons with character icons. 9 styles including «thinking» bubbles, chat-app style and interview style.
Protect your readers
- Content Warning (One Cushion) – Blur the content and show a confirmation message first. Readers who agree see the content; others are sent to a page you choose. Their choice is remembered.
Connect with your fans
- Clap Button (Web Clap) – A «like» button for your works. Claps are counted per post, and you can check daily, monthly and all-time rankings in the admin screen. Optionally redirect fans to a thank-you page.
- Share Buttons – X, Threads, Bluesky, LINE, Misskey, Taittsuu, Hatena Bookmark, Pinterest, Facebook and a copy-URL button. Choose the services and their order.
- Visitor Counter – A simple site visitor counter, just like the classic personal sites. (Requires the «Post view counter» feature.)
- Last Updated Date – Show when your site was last updated (last post date or last modified date).
Layout & design
- Accordion, Message Box, Banner List, Definition List and Simple Columns.
- Every block has style variations, color settings, borders, rounded corners, shadows and spacing controls.
- Set your own preset colors once, and use them across all blocks.
Handy site tools (all optional)
Turn on only what you need from the settings screen:
- Post view counter (shown in the posts list and the dashboard)
- Duplicate posts and pages with one click
- Disable right-click
- Clean up
<head>: remove the WordPress version, emoji scripts, RSD links, REST API link, DNS prefetch and more - Disable RSS feeds, self-pingbacks, automatic quote conversion (wptexturize) and the default block patterns
Lightweight by design
- Turn individual blocks on or off. Disabled blocks are not loaded at all.
- Front-end scripts are small, plain JavaScript with no jQuery.
Privacy
- Clap Button: when a visitor claps, the post ID, IP address, browser information (user agent) and date are saved in your site’s database, and a cookie is set to limit repeated claps.
- Post view counter / Visitor Counter: cookies are used to avoid counting the same visitor repeatedly. No personal data is stored.
- Content Warning and Name Changer: the reader’s choice and entered name are saved only in the reader’s own browser (localStorage) and are never sent to your server.
- Share Buttons: no data is sent to external services until the visitor clicks a button.
SKY Blocks does not send any data to external servers.
Please mention the above in your site’s privacy policy if necessary.
Bloques
Este plugin proporciona 18 bloques.
- Last Updated Date Displays when the site was last updated. Choose the last published date or the last modified date.
- Simple Image A simple image block with an optional lightbox.
- Definition List A definition list block. A definition list consists of terms and their descriptions.
- Accordion An accordion box.
- Simple Columns A simple column layout.
- Banner List A banner list block. *With image banners, the size is based on the image; with text, the size is based on the text.
- Content Warning Shows a warning before the content and reveals it after the reader agrees.
- Speech Balloon Conversation-style speech balloons with character icons.
- Share Buttons Share buttons for X, Threads, Bluesky, LINE and more.
- Clap Button A clap (like) button for your posts.
- Message Box A message box with icons.
- Spoiler Hides text wrapped in [hide] inside this block and reveals it with a button.
- Decorative Gallery A gallery for comics and illustrations with horizontal, spread and vertical viewers.
- Name Changer Replaces [change] in the text with what the reader enters. Works on the whole page where the form is placed.
- Visitor Counter Displays the total number of site visitors.
- Definition List Item (dt/dd) An item in a definition list.
- Banner Item An item in a banner list.
- Column A column in simple columns.
Instalación
- Install SKY Blocks from Plugins > Add New, or upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate the plugin.
- Open SKY Blocks in the admin menu to choose the blocks and features you want to use.
- In the block editor, find the blocks in the SKY Blocks category.
FAQ
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Does it work with any theme?
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Yes. SKY Blocks works with both block themes and classic themes that support the block editor.
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How do I use the Name Changer?
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Add the Name Changer block to a page, then write
[change]wherever the name should appear. When a reader enters a name, all[change]parts on that page are replaced. -
How do I use the Spoiler block?
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Inside the Spoiler block, wrap the text you want to hide with
[hide]and[/hide]. Readers can reveal it with the button. -
Where can I see the clap statistics?
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Open SKY Blocks in the admin menu and select the Clap Statistics tab. The tab appears when the Clap Button block is enabled. You can see the last 7 days, all-time totals, daily / monthly counts and rankings per post.
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Can I limit how often the same person can clap?
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Yes. Set the limit (in days) in the block settings. Set it to 0 for no limit.
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Which languages are supported?
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English and Japanese. The Japanese translation is included in the plugin. Translations for other languages are welcome on translate.wordpress.org.
Reseñas
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Registro de cambios
1.1.0
- New: The plugin is now translation-ready. The admin screens and block editor are in English, with a bundled Japanese translation.
- Fixed: Clap button did not record claps (wrong table name).
- Fixed: Clap button now uses a signed POST form (no counting by crawlers, works with page cache) and respects the clap limit days setting.
- Fixed: Open redirect via the clap button thank-you page parameter.
- Fixed: Default-enabled features (post view counter, generator removal) were not active until settings were saved.
- Fixed: Unchecking all blocks/features was shown as all checked in the settings screen.
- Fixed: Disable feeds, disable emojis and auto-sizes CSS removal options did not work on recent WordPress versions.
- Fixed: Simple image preload, last updated date timezone, gallery scroll lock on Esc and gallery class handling.
- Fixed: Post duplication removed backslashes from block content.
- Fixed: «Last 7 days» and daily ranking in clap statistics used wrong dates.
- Added: Capability check for deleting clap statistics, uninstall cleanup.
1.0.1
- Added an icon.
1.0.0
- Initial release.