Transforms classic editor content to blocks on-the-fly. Forked from https://github.com/10up/convert-to-blocks
Convert to Blocks is a WordPress plugin that transforms classic editor content to blocks on-the-fly. After installing Gutenberg or upgrading to WordPress 5.0+, your content will be displayed in "Classic Editor Blocks". While these blocks are completely functional and will display fine on the frontend of your website, they do not empower editors to fully make use of the block editing experience. In order to do so, your classic editor posts need to be converted to blocks. This plugin does that for you "on the fly". When an editor goes to edit a classic post, the content will be parsed into blocks. When the editor saves the post, the new structure will be saved into the database. This strategy reduces risk as you are only altering database values for content that needs to be changed.
The wp convert-to-blocks start WP-CLI command that converts posts iteratively in the browser without requiring any manual input. One caveat worth mentioning is that Gutenberg is a CPU intensive application. You will want to keep your computer plugged in before doing this!
- PHP 7.4+
- WordPress 5.7+
- Inner Blocks Transforms is only supported with the Gutenberg Plugin 10.9.0+
- Clone the repository into your
/pluginsdirectory. - Inside the repository directory, run
npm installand thennpm run build. - Inside the repository directory, run
composer install.
Find a classic editor in the post, try to navigate away from the page. You will get an error saying your changes will be discarded. This is because Convert to Blocks converted your content to blocks on the fly and those changes will be saved when you update the post.
By default it will not.
Nested / Inner Block support does not work with Gutenberg bundled with WordPress Core <=5.7.2. This feature needs the Gutenberg Plugin >=10.9.0.