DecoBlocks

Most WordPress posts read like documents. DecoBlocks is built for the posts that should read like you — the ones where a reader stops scrolling, actually feels something, and sticks around. Plain, information-only writing is easy to skim, easy to summarize, and increasingly easy to replace. What's harder to replace is a post with a real voice behind it — the small human touches (a sticker at just the right moment, a highlighted aside, a speech bubble that sounds like you talking) that no template and no AI-generated draft quite gets right. That's the gap DecoBlocks fills: the same kind of expressive stickers you already use every day in chat apps, brought into your blog posts — a visual rhythm for pacing emotion across a page that WordPress has never quite had. The practical effect, when it's used well: readers stay on the page longer, they're more likely to comment or come back, and your writing simply feels more like someone's, not something's. DecoBlocks doesn't promise a ranking boost — no plugin honestly can — but posts that keep people reading and coming back are exactly the kind of signal search engines are built to reward. Character stickers are the centerpiece: install packs made by independent illustrators (Insert Sticker block, or the Get from Marketplace tab) and drop them into your posts to punctuate a feeling — surprise, warmth, a laugh — the same way a well-placed sticker does on a personal blog. Alongside them, DecoBlocks gives you a full set of ready-made design blocks — speech bubbles, styled quote boxes, section boxes, custom bullet icons, text highlights, an auto-generated table of contents, glow effects, and an animated firework decoration — all without writing a single line of CSS, as native blocks (Gutenberg) or shortcodes (Classic Editor). Whether you call it post decoration, blog design, writing decoration, or content styling, DecoBlocks is built to make your posts beautiful, readable, and — most of all — recognizably, humanly yours. Free Features

• Speech bubble (filled / outline, left/right)
• Section box (solid / shadow / dashed)
• Custom bullet list icons (check / star / heart / arrow / point)
• Text highlight (yellow / green)
• Auto-generated table of contents
• Sparkle text effect
• Glow box (pulse effect)
• Auto-repeating firework decoration (gold / rainbow colors, adjustable particle count and timing)
• Quote block with multiple built-in styles (classic / vertical bar / line frame / big quotation marks)
• Divider block with multiple built-in styles (solid / dashed / dotted)
• Custom color palette and the option to hide the "Powered by" credit — both free, no upgrade needed
• Independent heading tag (H2–H6, or plain text) and font size choice on every text block — your choice, whether or not you want it picked up by search engines
• Works in both the Block Editor and the Classic Editor

3D Style Upgrade (paid add-on)

• Pastel speech bubble style and avatar images
• Sticky-note and corner-frame quote styles
• Diamond / arrow / diagonal-slash / tick-mark divider ornaments
• Multi-color confetti firework bursts
• Rainbow shine text, glowing twinkle-star box, and animated gradient highlight sweep
• Genuine 3D depth effects (shadows, embossing, elevation) layered on top of the styles above

2.44.8

• Fixed: on the "My Packs" tab, a long pack name (e.g. "The adorable look of Soti the kitten") could still spill outside its button — the previous wrapping fix was overridden by WordPress admin's own white-space: nowrap button style. Pack names now wrap inside their button as intended.
• Added: a "⭐ Favorites" section at the top of the "My Packs" tab. Star any sticker in any pack you own to pin it there for one-click reuse, without digging through packs.
• Added: you can now reorder your owned packs with ▲▼ buttons in the "My Packs" sidebar — the order you choose is remembered and used every time you open the sticker picker.

2.44.7

• Improved: the "Get from Marketplace" sticker picker now opens as a full-screen modal instead of a small popup, so you have much more room to browse packs.
• Improved: clicking anywhere on a pack card (not just the "View Details" button) opens its full detail view showing every sticker in that pack.
• Added: each pack now shows its product number (e.g. "#0007") next to its title, and the search box matches by product number, designer name, or language (Korean/English/Japanese) in addition to the title.
• Fixed: long pack titles could overflow their card, overlapping the language badge in an unpolished-looking way. Titles now wrap properly inside the card and the badge no longer gets pushed out of place.

2.44.6

• Fixed: the 2.44.5 border/background reset on the Quote block (added to stop themes' own blockquote styling from bleeding in) used a plain, non-!important rule. On themes that style blockquote through a higher-specificity selector (e.g. .entry-content blockquote), that theme rule could still win over the reset, letting the theme's own default left border (often in the theme's accent color) show through on quote styles that intentionally have no border of their own in the free version, such as "Corner Frame" and "Postit" — making them look like a plain box with a single stray line on the left instead of their designed look. The reset (and each quote style's own border, e.g. "Classic"'s left border and "Line Frame"'s top/bottom lines) is now marked !important, so DecoBlocks' own design always wins regardless of theme specificity.
• Fixed: "Corner Frame" with the 3D Style Upgrade active could render as a tiled/striped background instead of its designed corner brackets. Root cause: the free plugin's stylesheet and the 3D add-on's stylesheet both contain a rule of equal CSS specificity that touches the same element (one resets the background, the other draws the corner-bracket background image), and which one wins was decided by an unpredictable factor — whichever plugin's WordPress hook happened to register first on a given page load — rather than always resolving the same way. The add-on's stylesheet now formally declares itself dependent on the free plugin's stylesheet, so WordPress always loads it after the free plugin's CSS, making the add-on's corner-bracket styling win consistently. Requires updating the separate "DecoBlocks 3D Style Upgrade" plugin to 1.2.3+ as well.
• Fixed: with the 3D Style Upgrade active, clicking into a "Highlight" block set to the Gradient Glow (3D) style and typing did not work — the cursor wouldn't land and no text could be entered, while the non-3D Highlight typed normally. Root cause: the 3D style's reveal-in animation used transform: scaleX() directly on the editable text element itself, which is a known category of browser bug — applying transform to a contenteditable element can break its cursor/click-to-focus handling. The same visual sweep-in effect is now done by animating the background's width instead of using transform, which doesn't interfere with editing. Requires updating the separate "DecoBlocks 3D Style Upgrade" plugin to 1.2.3+ as well.

2.44.5

• Fixed (critical, content loss): "Quote Box - Big Quotation Marks" was registered in the block editor and had full CSS, but was missing from the server-side block registration entirely — any published post using this specific quote style rendered completely blank on the frontend (it looked fine while writing, since the editor renders from its own JavaScript regardless of server registration). Now registered server-side like the other 5 quote styles.
• Fixed: Section Box and Glow Box's optional Title, when used without body text (e.g. as a standalone subheading card), left an orphaned bit of whitespace below the title that threw off the box's vertical centering — the box's own padding is symmetric top/bottom, but a leftover margin meant for "title, then body text" stayed even when there was no body text to separate from. The body wrapper is no longer rendered at all when there's no actual content, and the spacing between title and body only applies when both are actually present, so the box now stays evenly centered whether or not body text is used.
• Fixed: DecoBlocks' Quote block is a real <blockquote> element, which some themes style with their own default border/background — this could silently bleed into a DecoBlocks quote style that doesn't already fill that space itself (most visibly, "Line Frame" could pick up an unwanted extra border from the active theme, on top of its own top/bottom lines). DecoBlocks' Quote block now explicitly resets border/background to a clean slate before applying its own style, so it always renders exactly as designed regardless of the active theme.
• Added: Section Box, Glow Box, and every Quote Box style now have a Text Align option (Center / Left) in the block sidebar, in addition to the Classic Editor shortcode equivalent (align="left"). Left alignment only changes the text alignment inside the block — the block's own padding is untouched, so text never sits flush against the edge. Requires updating the separate "DecoBlocks 3D Style Upgrade" plugin to 1.2.2+ as well (see below).

2.44.4

• Fixed (critical, separate from the 2.44.3 fix below): the 2.44.3 release correctly stopped gating the block editor's 3D preview behind a license — but a second, independent bug meant the block editor's writing canvas (which WordPress 5.9+ renders inside an <iframe>) was never receiving this plugin's own CSS file at all, on any site, license or no license. The stylesheet loaded successfully (HTTP 200) but was never synced into that iframe, so every block - not just the 3D variants, the plain 2D ones too - appeared completely unstyled while writing (shapes, borders, backgrounds all missing), even though the exact same CSS rendered correctly on the actual published post and in Preview. Every block is now registered with WordPress's style parameter (register_block_type()), which is the officially guaranteed mechanism for syncing a block's CSS into the editor iframe, instead of relying on a plain wp_enqueue_style() call that iframe-based editors can silently ignore. Requires updating the separate "DecoBlocks 3D Style Upgrade" plugin to 1.2.1+ as well, which received the matching fix for its own 3D CSS.

2.44.3

• Fixed: the block editor's "★ Toggle 3D" preview silently required a paid 3D license to show anything at all — the separate "DecoBlocks 3D Style Upgrade" plugin was loading its CSS/JS on the exact same license-gated code path for both the published post AND the writing screen, so even sites with the add-on plugin installed (trial or lapsed license) saw no visual difference between the 2D and 3D versions in the editor, only a lock-icon note. Editor asset loading is now a separate, unconditional path in the add-on plugin — it always shows the real 3D look while writing (this was always the documented intent — see the 2.20.0–2.31.0 entries below), while the published post remains gated to a valid license exactly as before. Requires updating the separate "DecoBlocks 3D Style Upgrade" plugin to 1.2.0+ as well.
• Changed: the 3D Style Upgrade license key is no longer entered on a separate screen under WordPress core's "Settings" menu. It's now entered directly on DecoBlocks → License Keys, in the same card, the same way the sticker pack key already works — paste the key, click Activate, done in one step, no second screen. If the add-on plugin isn't installed yet, this same screen verifies the key and hands you a download link; once you install and activate the add-on, that key activates itself automatically — you never have to type it twice. Requires updating the separate "DecoBlocks 3D Style Upgrade" plugin to 1.2.0+ as well.

2.44.2

• Fixed: in the "Choose a Sticker" marketplace picker, Japanese-only packs were shown with a "KO/EN" language badge instead of "JA". The badge's color/label logic only explicitly handled 'ko' and 'en', silently treating every other value (including 'ja') as the two-language fallback. Replaced with an explicit ko/en/ja/both mapping so each language gets its own badge (and the "both" badge now reads "ALL" instead of the misleading "KO/EN").

2.44.1

• Fixed: the 2.44.0 release accidentally gave "Postit" and "Corner Frame" quote styles full decorative CSS in the free plugin, which conflicted with the separate 3D Style Upgrade plugin's own styling for these same styles (causing a doubled/overlapping corner-frame border) and undermined the distinction between the free and paid look. These two styles are back to a minimal, non-broken-looking padding-only appearance in the free plugin; their actual decorative design remains part of the 3D Style Upgrade.

2.44.0

• Fixed: the "Postit" and "Corner Frame" quote box styles had no dedicated CSS at all (falling back to zero padding), and "Line Frame" only had 4px of horizontal padding — all three now have generous, unambiguous padding on every side. Corner Frame now also has actual corner-bracket decorations matching its name.

2.43.0

• Changed: the "Get from Marketplace" tab is now browse-and-buy only (View Details / Buy) — the license key entry field that duplicated the admin's "License Keys" page has been removed from both editors, since activation only ever happened there anyway. A clearly-styled notice now explains upfront that each pack is purchased individually (no shared cart), so it's clear before checkout rather than a surprise afterward.

2.42.0

• Version bump (no functional change from 2.41.0) to resolve a version numbering mismatch.

2.41.0

• Added: the "My Purchases" page now automatically reconciles the locally-installed pack list against what the marketplace genuinely has a license for, every time the page loads — any pack without a valid license (for example, one that was installed via the 2.40.2 security bug before it was fixed) is now automatically removed, with a notice explaining what was removed and why. Previously, only additions were synced automatically; nothing removed packs that shouldn't be there.

2.40.2

• Fixed (critical, security): the pack-browsing endpoint was made always-open in a previous release so people could preview a pack's full sticker set before buying — but the sticker pack "Install" action was reusing that same always-open endpoint, meaning any paid pack could be installed without a valid license. Installing now goes through a separate, properly-gated endpoint that genuinely requires a valid license for paid packs; browsing/previewing is unaffected. Requires updating the separate marketplace admin plugin (decoblocks-marketplace) as well — if you installed any paid packs without a real license due to this bug, you'll need to deactivate/remove them manually (Sticker Packs → Sticker Pack Licenses on this plugin's settings, or delete the entry from the site's installed-packs list).

2.40.1

• Fixed: "Sync my purchases now" skipped packs that were already present locally, even if they were stuck in the broken state from before the 2.38.2 image-fix (percent-encoded folder names). It now detects that specific stale pattern and forces a proper repair download instead of leaving it broken. Requires updating the separate marketplace admin plugin (decoblocks-marketplace) as well, which now also lets you manually add an activated site to a license (useful for testing or support cases).

2.40.0

• Added: sites that have already purchased sticker packs or the 3D Style Upgrade are now automatically recognized by domain — no license key re-entry needed. This runs automatically when the plugin is activated (covering the "deleted and reinstalled the plugin" case), and can also be triggered manually anytime from a new "Restore Previous Purchases" section on the License Keys page. Requires updating the separate marketplace admin plugin (decoblocks-marketplace) as well.

2.39.0

• Added: a "License History — Reinstall" section on the License Keys page. Every license key ever verified on this site (sticker packs and the 3D Style Upgrade) is now remembered, whether or not it's currently installed — if a pack gets deleted or the 3D plugin file gets lost, you can reinstall/re-download it with one click instead of digging through old purchase emails. Also added a way to paste a 3D Style Upgrade key you haven't used on this site before and get a fresh download link immediately.

2.38.2

• Fixed (critical): sticker packs purchased and installed with a non-ASCII (Korean, Japanese) name downloaded successfully but showed completely broken images and could not be used — the local folder the images were saved to was named using an already-percent-encoded string, which doesn't match the decoded path a browser/webserver looks for. Downloaded images are now stored under the pack's numeric ID instead, which has no such encoding mismatch possible.
• Changed: the sticker picker's tabs are reordered and relabeled for clarity — "My Packs" (what you've actually purchased) now comes first, then "Get from Marketplace", then "3D Styles", with the built-in placeholder stickers moved to a clearly-labeled "Test Samples" tab at the end. Previously, purchased packs were mixed into the same list as development placeholder stickers, which looked like your purchase was being treated as a demo.

2.38.1

• Fixed: hovering over "Buy 3D Style Upgrade" in the block inserter made the screen flicker continuously — the inserter's hover-preview was actually running the block's real code, which opens a purchase popup and removes itself. The block now only does that when genuinely inserted into a post, not during an inserter preview.

2.38.0

• Added: search (by pack title or designer name) and pagination to the "Get from Marketplace" tab in both editors, so browsing stays usable as the number of available packs grows past a single screen. Requires updating the separate marketplace admin plugin (decoblocks-marketplace) as well.

2.37.8

• Fixed: pack detail lookups for non-ASCII (Korean, Japanese) slugs kept failing across multiple attempted encoding fixes. This release replaces slug-based detail lookups entirely with the pack's numeric ID, which has no encoding representation to get wrong in the first place. Requires updating the separate marketplace admin plugin (decoblocks-marketplace) as well.

2.37.7

• Fixed: viewing details for any pack with a non-ASCII (Korean, Japanese, etc.) slug failed, while ASCII-slug packs worked fine — the pack-detail proxy was double URL-encoding the slug (sanitize_title() already percent-encodes non-Latin slugs; encoding it again turned every % into %25, corrupting it beyond recognition on the marketplace server).

2.37.6

• Changed (marketplace-side design fix): the pack detail/preview view no longer requires a license key to show the full sticker list — browsing a pack to decide whether to buy it should never have been gated. The license key is only checked at actual install/download time, which is the real protection point. Requires updating the separate marketplace admin plugin (decoblocks-marketplace) as well.

2.37.5

• Fixed: viewing a paid pack's details without a valid license key entered showed a completely empty grid instead of falling back to the 8-item preview — an empty result from the server was being treated the same as "fully unlocked with zero stickers" due to a JavaScript truthiness bug ([] is truthy). The preview + "license required" message now shows consistently for any locked pack, and the full list shows consistently once a valid key is entered.

2.37.4

• Fixed: opening a pack's detail view failed silently for any non-ASCII slug (Korean, Japanese, etc.) because the slug was not URL-encoded before being placed in the REST request path — this made the detail view fall back to the 8-item preview instead of loading the full sticker list.

2.37.3

• Fixed: the 2.37.2 package that was distributed did not actually contain the "detail view fetches full sticker list" fix described in its own changelog — the zip was built from an out-of-date snapshot. This release re-packages the same fix correctly and re-verifies the built zip's contents match the source before distribution.

2.37.2

• Changed: the "Get from Marketplace" tab (both editors) no longer hides packs based on your site's language — the marketplace server now always returns every published pack. Instead, a language section switcher (All / 한국어 / 日本語 / English) lets you narrow the list yourself, and each pack shows a small language badge. This avoids an empty-looking list while each language's pack inventory is still small.
• Fixed (marketplace-side): the "View / Buy" link and pack-detail lookup returned a 404 for any pack with a non-ASCII slug (Korean, Japanese, etc.) — the underlying REST route pattern only accepted English letters/digits/hyphens. Requires updating the separate marketplace admin plugin (decoblocks-marketplace) as well.

2.37.1

• Fixed: a bug in the previous release could corrupt the Classic Editor's sticker picker window layout when switching between its tabs. The picker now closes and reopens a fresh window on every tab switch instead of rewriting the open window's contents in place, which is a more reliable pattern for this editor's older window-management code.
• Changed: "Get from Marketplace" is now the tab shown by default (loading automatically) in both editors' sticker picker, since the bundled sample stickers are placeholder-quality only. The sample tab is now labeled "Sample Packs" and is the secondary option.

2.37.0

• Added: the Classic Editor's sticker picker now has a "Get from Marketplace" tab, matching the Block Editor — browse available packs, or paste a license key to install a pack directly, without switching editors. Previously the Classic Editor only showed already-installed packs with no way to get more.

2.36.9

• Fixed: the entire Classic Editor experience (every TinyMCE toolbar button and every QuickTags text-mode button — Speech Bubble, Section Box, Quote Box, Divider, Highlight, Table of Contents, Sparkle, Glow, Firework, Bullet List, and Insert Sticker, including their 3D variants) was inserting an outdated shortcode tag left over from the 2.36.7 prefix cleanup, so none of these buttons produced any visible output. All of them now insert the correct tag.
• Fixed: the Editor Settings page (branding credit checkbox, color palette) had a form field name left over from before the 2.36.7 menu restructure that no longer matched the registered setting, so saving that page silently did nothing. Settings on this page now save correctly.
• Internal: re-verified every option name, shortcode registration, settings-page form field, admin-post action, and enqueue handle against its registration to make sure no other leftovers were missed.

2.36.8

• Added: Japanese (ja) sites now get sticker pack listings in Japanese from the marketplace, in addition to the existing Korean/English support.

2.36.7

• Changed: the single "DecoBlocks Settings" page has been split into three separate menu items, matching how the marketplace's admin plugin is organized: "📦 My Purchases" (a read-only dashboard showing 3D Style Upgrade status and every sticker pack you own, at a glance — this is now the first thing you see), "🔑 License Keys" (the only place you enter a sticker pack key; the 3D Style Upgrade key is entered on its own separate plugin's page, linked from here), and "⚙️ Editor Settings" (color palette, branding credit — cosmetic settings that were previously shown before purchase status, now moved out of the way).

2.36.6

• Fixed: the "decobl-firework" script was only registered on the published-post frontend, not in the block editor — if the separate "DecoBlocks 3D Style Upgrade" plugin is active, its firework confetti script depends on this handle and was silently failing to load while writing a post. It's now registered in both places.
• Fixed: the 3D Style Upgrade card in DecoBlocks Settings now distinguishes three separate states (license active / plugin installed but not yet licensed / plugin not installed) instead of only two, with a direct link to the separate plugin's own license page in the two "not fully active" states.

2.36.5

• Fixed: every DecoBlocks block (and its 3D variation) now shows an actual hover preview in the block inserter, instead of a "No preview available" placeholder — added an example definition to all 12 blocks so their real appearance is visible before inserting. (Insert Sticker and Buy 3D Style Upgrade are interactive/action blocks with no fixed visual output, so they show an empty preview rather than a placeholder — that's inherent to how they work, not a bug.)

2.36.4

• Changed: the DecoBlocks 3D Style Upgrade is now a completely separate, independently-installed plugin. This plugin no longer downloads, stores, or enqueues any CSS/JS from a remote server for it — it only detects whether that separate plugin is installed and licensed. The "3D Style License Key" field has been removed from this plugin's settings screen (license activation now happens on the separate plugin's own settings page).
• Fixed: sticker pack image downloads are now validated before being saved — only png/gif/jpg/jpeg/webp files are accepted, the actual file content is verified to be a real image (not just trusting the file extension from the remote URL), and SVG is explicitly rejected (SVG files can contain executable script tags, unlike other image formats).

2.36.3

• Hardened further: removed the "Marketplace Server URL" setting entirely. It served no purpose for regular users (there was never a reason to point it anywhere other than our own marketplace) and was one more thing that could theoretically be tampered with. Every part of the plugin that talks to the marketplace now uses a single fixed address that can't be changed through any setting.

2.36.2

• Fixed: the 3D Style Upgrade CSS/JS download now only ever fetches from a single hardcoded, trusted server address (it can no longer be pointed anywhere else, even by changing plugin settings), requires HTTPS with certificate verification, checks the response's Content-Type header, and rejects the response outright if it contains a PHP execution tag, before anything is written to disk.
• Fixed: removed the last two dbk_-prefixed shortcode registrations (dbk_sticker and the dbk_* block shortcodes) that were kept as backward-compatible aliases — all shortcodes now use only the decobl_ prefix.

2.36.1

• Fixed: toggling the 3D star button on Speech Bubble, Section Box, Custom Bullet List, Sparkle Text, Glow Box, Quote Box, Divider Line, and Table of Contents previously showed no explanation when the 3D Style Upgrade wasn't purchased yet — it just looked identical to the non-3D version, which could look like a bug. Every 3D-capable block now shows a clear "This is a preview only, purchase required to publish" note (previously this note only existed on the Highlight and Firework blocks).

2.36.0

• Fixed: all style/color/option choices across every block are now always available in the free version (previously some were disabled behind a license check, which is not allowed for plugins hosted on WordPress.org). The DecoBlocks 3D Style Upgrade remains a separate paid add-on, but its CSS/JS now ships only as an external download after purchase, rather than as license-gated code inside this plugin.
• Fixed: all function/class/option names, shortcode tags, and script handles now use a proper 4+ character prefix (decobl_/DECOBL_) to avoid collisions with other plugins/themes. Existing content using the old short shortcode tags (e.g. [dbk_bubble]) keeps working via a backward-compatible alias.
• Fixed: the "Get from Marketplace" sticker tab and pack browsing no longer require any special unlock state — installing a specific paid pack is still gated by that pack's own license key, same as before.
• Fixed: install-pack REST endpoint now requires manage_options (it writes a site-wide option and downloads files), instead of the weaker edit_posts.
• Fixed: removed an unnecessary load of wp-admin/includes/media.php and image.php — no functions from either file were actually used.
• Removed: load_plugin_textdomain() call, unnecessary since WordPress 4.6 for plugins hosted on WordPress.org.
• Removed: bundled .po/.mo/.json translation files from the plugin package — translations are now handled entirely through translate.wordpress.org.

2.35.1

• Fixed: the new heading tag/font size panel (added in 2.35.0) was easy to miss — it appeared collapsed and, for Korean-language sites, showed its label in English ("Typography") since the new strings hadn't been added to the Korean translation file yet. It now opens automatically (matching how core blocks like Paragraph show their Typography section) and is fully translated to Korean when the site/user language is Korean, with the original English text still shown on English-language sites.

2.35.0

• New: every text-content block (Speech Bubble, Section Box, Highlight, Sparkle Text, Glow Box, Firework Effect caption, and all Quote Box styles) now lets you independently choose a real heading tag (H2–H6) or keep it as plain text, plus an independent font size — entirely your call, whether or not you want the text picked up as a heading by search engines. Existing content is unaffected; if you don't touch these new options your posts render exactly as before.
• Changed: the Block Editor's "(3D)" inserter entries now show a clean "✨ [Block Name] (3D)" label with no purchase explanation on sites where the 3D Style Upgrade is already unlocked. Sites that haven't purchased it yet still see the existing "(3D — Purchase Required to Publish)" label and explanation, unchanged.
• Changed: removed the developer-only "Preview Pro Mode" checkbox from Settings — it had no real purchase verification behind it (unlike Sticker Packs and the 3D Style Upgrade, which are both license-checked against the marketplace). The handful of style/color options it used to gate (extra quote & divider styles, expanded bullet icon sets, custom color palette, no-branding footer, configurable firework timing/colors/particles) are now bundled into the already-licensed 3D Style Upgrade add-on instead of being a separately "checked" tier with no real enforcement.

2.34.1

• Changed: "External services" section now links directly to the actual Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Refund Policy, and Contact pages, instead of the marketplace's homepage

2.34.0

• Fixed: the "Show a small Powered by DecoBlocks credit" option was defaulting to on and could only be turned off in the Pro version — it now defaults to off on both fresh installs and existing sites, and can be freely turned on/off regardless of Free/Pro
• Changed: "Sticker Pack License Key" moved out of the main Save Changes form into its own input + dedicated "Add" button, so adding a pack key no longer re-saves every other setting on the page
• Changed: full visual redesign of the DecoBlocks settings screen — card-based sections, a branded header, colored status indicators, and an "Installed Sticker Packs" chip grid, matching DecoBlocks' visual identity
• Added: "External services" documentation describing exactly what data is sent to the marketplace server and when

2.33.0

• New: DecoBlocks settings screen now has a "Sticker Pack License Key" field — paste a license key from your purchase email and save, and the pack is looked up, downloaded, and installed automatically. No more needing to know which pack a key belongs to or hunting for the right tab in the block editor
• New: settings screen now lists all "Installed Sticker Packs" with their sticker counts, so it's easy to confirm what's already installed
• New: if a 3D Style Upgrade key is accidentally pasted into the new sticker pack field, it's automatically applied to the 3D license field instead of failing with an error
• Note: requires decoblocks-marketplace v4.10.0 or later on the marketplace server for the new lookup-by-key endpoint

2.32.0

• Fixed: the Block Editor "✨ Buy 3D Style Upgrade" inserter item looked the same as every other block (grey outline icon) and, when clicked, left an empty block sitting in the post that had to be manually deleted. It now shows a colorful "3D" icon so it stands out from other items, and clicking it opens a purchase modal immediately (same as Insert Sticker) instead of leaving anything in the post content

2.31.0

• Fixed: the 2.30.0 "Buy 3D Style Upgrade" fix only covered the Classic Editor menu — the Block Editor (Gutenberg) inserter had no equivalent, so the fix was incomplete. Added a matching "✨ Buy 3D Style Upgrade" block, placed right after "Insert Sticker" as the second item in the DecoBlocks block category, same position as the Classic Editor menu

2.30.0

• New: Classic Editor now has an explicit "Buy 3D Style Upgrade" menu item, placed right after "Insert Character Sticker" as the second item, instead of only being reachable indirectly
• Fixed: Classic Editor didn't have access to the marketplace URL at all, so this new button couldn't have worked without it — added the missing localization

2.29.0

• Fixed: classic-editor "Speech Bubble (Right)" inserted with an orange color by default (both 2D and 3D), while "Speech Bubble (Left)" used black — position and color were incorrectly tied together. Both now default to the same black, matching the block editor's behavior; color is an independent choice either way

2.28.0

• Fixed: Table of Contents links had no color set, so they fell back to the browser's default link blue instead of following the site's normal text color — links now inherit the surrounding text color

2.27.0

• Fixed: Speech Bubble used display: inline-flex, which is inline-level — two bubbles typed on separate lines could end up sitting side-by-side on the same row instead of stacking, in both 2D and 3D. Changed to display: flex (block-level) so each bubble always starts on its own line
• Fixed: the classic-editor "Insert Firework Effect" menu items (both 2D and 3D) inserted the shortcode with no caption text at all, since the firework's text is a label attribute rather than wrapped content — it now inserts a default "Congrats!" label so there's something visible to edit

2.26.0

• New: Highlight's 3D Gradient Glow color is no longer fixed to yellow — a color palette control now appears in the sidebar (and via a new gradient_color shortcode attribute) to pick any color, which fades from solid to transparent left-to-right
• New: classic-editor 3D menu expanded to a full one-to-one match with the block editor — every Quote Box style (6) and every Divider Line style (7) now has its own separate 3D entry, each explicitly labeled "(3D — Purchase Required to Publish)" so it's clear these require the paid upgrade to actually appear on a published post (this labeling was added to the block editor's inserter titles too, for consistency)
• New: classic editor gained a dedicated "Insert Character Sticker" button and menu item — it previously had no way to insert marketplace stickers at all. Opens a picker showing installed sticker packs; also added a matching [dbk_sticker] shortcode
• Fixed: Quote Box, Section Box, Glow Box, and Table of Contents were left-aligned by default with no way to visually center them — added default center alignment (with a sensible max-width for Section Box/Glow Box so the centering is actually visible). Speech Bubble and Custom Bullet List were left as-is intentionally (bubbles use left/right by design; lists read better left-aligned)

2.25.0

• Fixed: Highlight's 2D colors (yellow/green) had the same CSS specificity bug as the 3D version — background wasn't rendering on the published post. Fixed alongside the 3D fix in the same release
• New: Classic Editor 3D menu — initial pass adding one representative 3D item per block family

2.24.0

• Fixed (best diagnosis, pending live confirmation): the [dbk_highlight] shortcode's output was disappearing entirely on the published page (leaving only plain unstyled text) — WordPress's content security filter (kses) likely doesn't include in its default allowed-tags list, so it silently stripped the tag. Explicitly whitelisted with class/style attributes via wp_kses_allowed_html

2.23.0

• Version bump only (packaging fix)

2.22.0

• Fixed: Custom Bullet List and Table of Contents didn't visually reflect the 3D toggle in the block editor at all (only on the published post) — TOC's editor preview now shows the same double-ring border as the real 3D version, and Bullet List's icons now show the same raised circular badge in the editor
• New: Classic Editor (TinyMCE) support was built long before the 3D system existed and was never updated — the insert-element dropdown had zero 3D options. Added a full "✨ 3D Styles" section covering Speech Bubble, Section Box, Highlight, Custom Bullet List, Table of Contents, Sparkle Text, Glow Box, Firework Effect, Quote Box, and Divider Line, plus matching Quicktags (text-mode) buttons for Box/Highlight/Glow/Divider
• Fixed: none of the classic-editor shortcodes ([dbk_bubble], [dbk_box], [dbk_quote], [dbk_divider], [dbk_bullets], [dbk_toc], [dbk_sparkle], [dbk_glow]) accepted an is3d attribute at all, even though the underlying renderer functions already supported it — shortcodes now properly pass is3d through

2.21.0

• Fixed (verified live on a real site): Highlight's 3D gradient wasn't rendering at all — a base rule (mark.dbk-highlight { background: none; }) had higher CSS specificity (tag+class) than the 3D variant rule (class only), so it always won regardless of source order and silently cancelled the gradient. The 3D rule's selector is now .dbk-highlight.dbk-highlight--gradient3d (matching specificity, correctly overriding the base rule)
• Verified live: postit vignette, TOC double-ring border, and the enlarged Custom Bullet List 3D badge were all re-checked directly on a published post via computed styles and confirmed working as intended

2.20.0

• Fixed: Quote Box "Sticky Note" style's 3D version looked identical to 2D — now has a paper-like vignette gradient, deeper shadow, and a more pronounced folded corner
• Fixed: Table of Contents 3D vs 2D was hard to tell apart — added a visible double-ring border for a clearer layered/embossed feel
• Fixed: Highlight's 3D effect was too subtle to notice at a glance — replaced with an immediately visible left-to-right color gradient (dark yellow fading to light), combined with a subtle shadow for depth
• Fixed: Custom Bullet List's 3D badge was barely different in size from 2D — enlarged significantly and given a visible ring border for a clearer distinction

2.19.0

• Changed: 3D effects completely redesigned — "3D" now means real depth (shadows, embossing, elevation), not rainbow color. The generic gradient-border/rainbow treatment reused across every block has been replaced with bespoke, depth-based effects per block
• Fixed: Custom Bullet List's 3D version looked identical to 2D — icons now get a genuinely raised circular badge with real shadow/bevel
• Fixed: Highlight's 3D version was a static colored box — replaced with a dark highlighter-style mark that animates left-to-right with a real drop shadow underneath
• Fixed: Quote Box 3D looked identical to Section Box 3D (both used the exact same generic effect) — quotes now get a distinct "carved/inset" look, boxes get a "lifted card" look
• Fixed: all 7 Divider Line styles collapsed into the same rainbow bar in 3D mode, destroying their individual shapes — each style now gets its own bespoke 3D treatment (embossed bar, beveled dashes, raised dot beads, a faceted 3D diamond gem, an animated flying-in arrow, a carved diagonal slash, a raised tick mark)
• New: Auto Table of Contents now has a 3D version (elevated card with embossed numbered badges), which it previously lacked entirely

2.18.0

• New: every 3D-capable block (Speech Bubble, Section Box, Custom Bullet List, Highlight, Sparkle Text, Glow Box, Firework Effect, all 6 Quote Box styles, all 7 Divider Line styles) now also appears as a separate "✨ ... (3D)" entry directly in the block inserter list, using WordPress's native block variations — so the 3D option is visible and insertable from the block list itself, not only via the in-canvas toolbar toggle

2.17.0

• New: "✨ 3D Styles" tab added to the sticker picker (alongside Installed Packs / Get from Marketplace) — the highest-traffic screen now directly promotes the 3D upgrade, explains exactly which blocks support it and how to toggle it (the toolbar star button), and links straight to checkout
• New: DBK_DATA now carries the configured marketplace URL so the editor can build a direct purchase link without any extra request

2.16.0

• Fixed: the sticker block rendered left-aligned on the published post despite showing centered in the editor — now centered by default on both, with left/center/right all supported

2.15.0

• Fixed: Custom Bullet List's 3D toggle had no actual CSS effect (attribute/toolbar button existed but the visual was never implemented) — added a genuine rainbow-accent 3D treatment
• Fixed: Quote Box "Classic" and "Big Quotation Marks" used nearly identical quote-mark icons in the block list, despite looking completely different once inserted — icons reassigned so each better matches its real appearance
• Fixed: "Big Quotation Marks" style only had an opening quotation mark, not a closing one — added the matching closing mark
• Changed: quote text is now noticeably larger across all 6 Quote Box styles (it's meant to carry a short "topic title", not body copy)
• Changed: the source/author field for Quote Box is no longer a sidebar-only text field — it's now a small, light, directly-editable text area inside the block itself, right under the quote
• New: the "Get from Marketplace" pack list now shows a notice that items must be purchased individually (no combined cart checkout), due to a Lemon Squeezy platform limitation

2.14.0

• Fixed: Highlight's 3D Gradient Glow was too subtle to notice (a faint underline) — rebuilt as a bold, unmistakable animated gradient background with white text
• Changed: 3D options are no longer hidden inside the sidebar dropdown only — every 3D-capable block now shows a star (★) toolbar button the moment it's selected, so the option is immediately visible instead of "hidden"
• New: 3D Premium versions added to Speech Bubble, Section Box, all 6 Quote Box styles, all 7 Divider Line styles, Glow Box, Sparkle Text, and Custom Bullet List — each gets a distinct, genuinely "fancier" 3D treatment (gradient border + elevated shadow for boxes/bubbles/quotes, animated gradient line for dividers, rainbow pulse for glow box, rainbow shimmer for sparkle text), always previewable in the editor, always gated to a valid 3D license on the published post
• New: "Quote Box - Big Quotation Marks" style added — a real oversized decorative quotation mark (previously only mentioned in a code comment on the Classic style but never actually implemented)

2.13.0

• Improved: the pack detail view (from "View Details") now keeps the title, price, license field, and Install button fixed at the top, with only the sticker grid scrolling below — so packs with many stickers (20-30+) never require scrolling past everything just to reach the Install button

2.12.0

• New: "View Details" button on each marketplace pack card in the sticker picker, opening a large full-size preview of that pack's stickers (with a "Showing X of Y" note if the pack has more stickers than shown) before deciding to install/purchase — similar to browsing a full pack on Naver Blog's sticker panel

2.11.0

• Fixed: quote/divider/checklist block titles (which are assembled dynamically in JS rather than being static strings) were being skipped entirely by the translation build, so they stayed in English even after the earlier i18n fix. They're now included explicitly
• Redesigned the sticker picker into a much larger, near-fullscreen modal (up to 1150px wide) with a responsive grid, so installed-pack stickers and marketplace previews are shown at a genuinely large, clearly readable size (like Naver Blog's sticker panel) instead of tiny thumbnails — sticker names are now shown under each image too

2.10.0

• Fixed: block editor strings (block titles, sticker modal text, etc.) staying in English on Korean sites even with the correct language settings. The automatic JS translation loading (wp_set_script_translations) was unreliable on some server environments; PHP now reads the same translation JSON directly and hands it to the editor via wp_localize_script instead, which is more robust across hosting setups

2.9.0

• New: 3D effect options (firework Multi-Color Burst, highlight Gradient Glow) are now always selectable in the editor as a preview, even without a license — shown with a 🔒 badge and a note explaining that purchase is required for it to appear on the published post. The actual frontend render remains server-side gated regardless of what's selected in the editor
• New: 3D Style Upgrade promo banner (with a direct buy link) shown in Settings when not yet unlocked

2.8.0

• New: DecoBlocks 3D Style Upgrade — a separate paid addon (independent of Free/Pro), unlocked with its own license key (Settings → DecoBlocks 3D Style License Key), verified live against the marketplace
• New: Firework block gets a "✨ Multi-Color Burst (3D)" option when unlocked — multiple simultaneous multi-color bursts with soft gradient-glow particles instead of flat dots
• New: Highlight block gets a "✨ Gradient Glow (3D)" option when unlocked — an animated multi-color gradient underline
• Both 3D effects are enforced server-side in the renderer, not just hidden in the editor — so they can't be unlocked by tampering with saved block attributes without a valid license

2.7.0

• Sticker block icon redesigned as a cute, simplified smiling-face style, filling more of the icon area
• Enlarged the inserter icon further (48px, up from 32px) — the practical maximum within a single inserter grid cell
• Marketplace server URL is now pre-configured out of the box (store.luxdigest.com) — no manual setup required for buyers, though it remains editable in Settings

2.6.0

• Remote pack browsing now sends this site's language (ko/en, derived from get_locale()) to the marketplace, so only packs matching the site's language (or marked "both") are shown
• Marketplace pack cards in the sticker picker now show a KO/EN/KO+EN language badge

2.5.0

• Sticker block moved to the very first position in the inserter (it's the core monetization feature, so it should be the first thing users see)
• Sticker block now uses a larger, full-color custom icon instead of a monochrome dashicon, to stand out from the rest
• Free-tier users now see a clear "This is a Pro feature" lock notice instead of being able to browse/install marketplace packs; the "Installed Packs" tab also shows a banner nudging toward Pro

2.4.0

• Security: removed the development-only "always unlock Pro" hack from both PHP and JS — Pro features are now gated by the real license/settings check again
• Security: sends this site's URL (home_url()) to the marketplace when checking/installing a pack, enabling domain-locked licensing (see DecoBlocks Marketplace 1.1.0)
• Hardening: added blank index.php files to all plugin directories to prevent directory listing

2.3.0

• Major i18n overhaul: all source strings (PHP and JS) are now in English by default, following WordPress convention
• Added a full Korean translation (languages/decoblocks-ko_KR.po/.mo for PHP, and the matching JSON file for JS/Gutenberg strings) — WordPress automatically shows Korean on ko_KR sites and English everywhere else, no plugin settings needed
• Classic Editor (TinyMCE/Quicktags) button labels are now also translatable — previously hardcoded, now pulled from PHP via wp_localize_script so they follow the same site-language switching
• Block titles remain distinctly suffixed with "(DecoBlocks)" in both languages to avoid any confusion with WordPress core blocks of similar names

2.2.0

• New: Marketplace integration. Added a "마켓에서 받기" (Get from Marketplace) tab in the Sticker modal that lists packs from a configurable DecoBlocks Marketplace server and installs them (downloads real image files into this site's uploads folder) with one click
• New: License key field for paid packs, verified against the marketplace server before download
• New: Companion "DecoBlocks Marketplace" plugin (separate zip) to be installed on the seller's own server/subdomain — manages pack uploads, designer/price metadata, and license issuance, and exposes the REST API this plugin talks to

2.1.1

• Removed the Business/Travel/Food/Study emoji bullet-icon category blocks — these were built on a misunderstanding of the sticker feature and are superseded by the real Sticker system
• Kept the basic checklist bullet icons (✅⭐💛➡️📌) as a separate, simple list-marker feature

2.1.0

• New: Sticker insertion block with a pack-tab + thumbnail-grid modal picker (Naver-blog-style sticker panel)
• New: Sticker pack manifest system (DBK_Stickers class) ready to be swapped from sample placeholder art to real designer-licensed packs
• Added 8 original sample stickers across 2 placeholder packs (Basic, Point) purely to validate the picker UX — not final artwork

2.0.0

• Major restructure: Quote (5 styles), Divider (7 styles), and Bullet List icon categories (5 categories) are now separate, individually named blocks in the inserter instead of one block with a dropdown/toolbar sub-selector
• Renamed "Quote" to "Quote Box (인용박스)" and "Divider" to "Divider Line (구분라인)" to avoid name collisions with WordPress core's built-in Quote and Separator blocks
• Pro-only block variants are no longer just visually locked — they don't register/appear at all for free-tier users, removing any confusion about greyed-out or silently-downgraded options

1.3.0

• Section Box and Corner Frame quote style now shrink to fit their content width instead of always stretching full-width
• Added quick style-switcher dropdowns directly in the block toolbar (Divider, Quote, Bullet List icons) so styles can be changed without opening the sidebar

1.2.2

• Divider block now offers 7 styles (solid, dashed, dotted, diamond, arrow, diagonal slash, vertical tick) instead of 5
• Clarified naming conflict with WordPress core's built-in "Separator"/"Quote" blocks that share the same Korean label

1.2.1

• Pro-mode flag is now hardcoded directly in the editor JavaScript (not just PHP) so all style dropdowns and icon sets show regardless of any caching or data-passing issue
• Default bubble style changed from solid Filled to Outline so it no longer defaults to a solid block of color
• Verified all 10 blocks execute their edit() functions without runtime errors in a mock WordPress environment

1.2.0

• Pro features are now force-unlocked during development regardless of saved settings (fixes recurring "locked feature" confusion)
• Fixed speech bubble stretching full-width like a banner instead of hugging its content (display switched to fit-content)
• Added Outline and Pastel (soft) bubble styles, no longer forced to always have a solid fill

1.1.2

• Fixed a bug where existing installs never actually saw Pro-only styles/icons because the new "Preview Pro Mode" setting key didn't exist in already-saved options — now defaults to on until explicitly turned off
• Firework caption is now typed directly inside the block (inline RichText) instead of a sidebar-only field
• Quote styles (classic / vertical-bar / line-frame) all significantly thicker and more visually distinct

1.1.1

• Added a developer-only "Preview Pro Mode" toggle so Pro-only styles/icons can actually be tested before a real licensing system exists
• Quote and Divider blocks now use a visible style dropdown (consistent with all other blocks) instead of the hidden native "Styles" tab
• Refined the vertical-bar quote style with a rounded, properly weighted accent bar

1.1.0

• Rebranded to DecoBlocks
• Unified Quote and Divider components into single blocks with selectable style variations
• Added categorized bullet icon sample sets (business, travel, food, study)
• Grouped all blocks under a dedicated "DecoBlocks" inserter category

1.0.1

• Fixed content loss bug in dynamic blocks (Bubble, Box, Glow Box, Sparkle)
• Redesigned firework effect to auto-repeat instead of requiring a click
• Changed default accent colors from blue to black across components

1.0.0

• Initial release