Modern Design Library

Modern Design Library is a toolkit of opinionated Gutenberg blocks for WordPress. All optional blocks are registered using PHP-only block registration (autoRegister) — no JavaScript build step or Node.js tooling required. The plugin ships with:

• Colored Line — a fully customisable horizontal separator block with striped, shade, and dotted style variants (classic JS-registered block).
• Advanced Separator (experimental) — a PHP-only separator with configurable width, height, padding, alignment, and three decorative variants.
• Advanced Heading (experimental) — 13 decorative heading styles, heading level selector (H1–H6), optional tagline, and full typography/spacing/border block support controls. Accent decorations automatically follow the text colour.
• Marquee (experimental) — a single infinitely scrolling text row. Stack multiple blocks for multi-row layouts. Speed (Slow/Medium/Fast) and direction (Left/Right) are configurable. Animation script is loaded lazily — only on pages containing the block.
• Call to Action (experimental) — a CTA banner with heading, subheading, button label/URL, three visual variants (Primary/Secondary/Dark), and native colour overrides.
• Author Box (experimental) — displays a user card with avatar, bio, email, and LinkedIn link. User is selected from a dropdown. LinkedIn URL is stored as user meta (set on the user's profile page).

Optional blocks are enabled from Settings → Modern Design Library → Modules. The optional blocks require the Gutenberg plugin or WordPress 7.0+ for the autoRegister block support. Read more on getButterfly. For a deep dive into how the PHP-only blocks work, read PHP-Only Block Registration in WordPress 7.0.

1.2.0

• NEW: Advanced Separator block — PHP-only horizontal separator with width, height, padding, alignment, and Striped/Shade/Dotted style variants
• NEW: Advanced Heading block — PHP-only heading with 13 decorative styles, H1–H6 level selector, optional tagline, and full typography/spacing/border support; accent decorations inherit text colour via currentColor
• NEW: Marquee block — PHP-only infinitely scrolling text row with speed, direction, colour, and typography controls; animation script loaded lazily via render callback
• NEW: Call to Action block — PHP-only CTA banner with heading, subheading, button, three visual variants, and native colour overrides
• NEW: Author Box block — PHP-only author card with avatar, bio, email, and LinkedIn; user selected from a live dropdown; LinkedIn URL stored as user meta
• NEW: Modules admin panel — optional blocks are individually enabled/disabled from Settings → Modern Design Library → Modules
• NEW: Consolidated blocks.css — all PHP-only block styles share a single stylesheet loaded once per page regardless of how many MDL blocks are present

1.1.6

• UPDATE: Upgrade colored-line block to API version 3 for iframe editor compatibility
• UPDATE: Add useBlockProps() hook for proper block wrapper attributes
• UPDATE: Remove deprecated wp-editor dependency
• UPDATE: Change edit function to return Fragment instead of array

1.1.5

• FIX: Fix CVE-2025-5842 (props Peter Thaleikis via Wordfence)
• UPDATE: Update WordPress compatibility

1.1.4

• UPDATE: Update WordPress compatibility

1.1.2

• UPDATE: Update WordPress compatibility
• UPDATE: Remove old code

1.1.1

• UPDATE: Update WordPress compatibility
• UPDATE: Remove custom background colour in editor

1.1.0

• UPDATE: (BREAKING) Added the first block (horizontal/vertical colored line/divider)
• UPDATE: (BREAKING) Removed old/obsolete libraries
• UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
• UPDATE: Updated required PHP version

1.0.6

• UPDATE: (BREAKING) Removed third-party (external) Material Design stylesheets

1.0.5

• UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
• UPDATE: Updated required PHP version

1.0.4

• UPDATE: Updated plugin tags
• UPDATE: Updated changelog
• UPDATE: Updated readme.txt (in progress)
• UPDATE: Removed demo page
• UPDATE: Removed plugin settings page (based on Customizer)
• UPDATE: Refactoring of several classes
• UPDATE: Removed TGM Plugin Activation dependency
• UPDATE: Removed Shortcake UI dependency (no shortcode builder available)
• UPDATE: Prepared plugin for next big release with user options, help, documentation and shortcode builder
• UPDATE: Updated WordPress compatibility
• UPDATE: Updated required PHP version
• UPDATE: Removed included language file and prepared the plugin for native internationalisation (i18n)

1.0.3

• Move TGM Plugin Activation file to 'inc' directory to avoid it showing up as a separate plugin in site's list of plugins

1.0.2

• Updated to load MDL Version 1.0.6

1.0.1

• Updated to load MDL Version 1.0.5 instead of 1.0.4

1.0

• Initially uploaded to WordPress.org on September 14, 2015