OwlDraft Editorial Blocks – Post Grid, List & Hero for News and Magazine Sites

Magazine and news blocks for the WordPress block editor.

The plugin adds blocks and nothing else. There is no settings page, no dashboard
widget and no onboarding wizard — you add a block, set it up in the sidebar like
any core block, and you are done.

Blocks

• Post Grid — posts as a grid of cards, with a column count each for desktop,
  tablet and phone.
• Post List — posts as a list of rows, each with a thumbnail beside the text.
• Post Group — a featured cluster: one lead story with the rest of the posts
  beside it, either as a single rail or as the classic three-column homepage
  layout with the lead left, centre or right.
• Hero — one story, shown large, with the image above the text, beside it, or
  behind it.
• Authors — a grid of author cards, each with an avatar, bio and latest post.

Choosing the posts

Every block picks its posts the same way: by number, category, tag, author, or an
explicit list of post IDs — and each of those can be excluded as well as included.
Post Group and Hero can also take their lead story from somewhere else entirely,
such as your sticky post or the newest post in one category, and the block will
make sure that story does not then repeat further down.

Notes

Blocks render on the server, so a block always reflects your posts as they are
right now — editing or publishing a post updates every block that shows it, with
nothing to re-save. It is also the same code that draws the editor preview, so
what you see while editing is what the page will show.

Styling is deliberately minimal. The blocks lay themselves out but inherit fonts,
colours and heading sizes from your theme, so they look native rather than bolted
on.

Credits

The comment icon is “message-circle” from Feather by
Cole Bemis, used under the MIT licence.