Title: Broadside Blocks
Author: Shadow Software LLC
Published: <strong>22 בספטמבר 2026</strong>
Last modified: 26 באוקטובר 2026

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# Broadside Blocks

 מאת [Shadow Software LLC](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shadowsoftware/)

[הורדה](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/broadside-blocks.1.4.5.zip)

 * [פרטים](https://he.wordpress.org/plugins/broadside-blocks/#description)
 * [סקירות](https://he.wordpress.org/plugins/broadside-blocks/#reviews)
 *  [התקנה](https://he.wordpress.org/plugins/broadside-blocks/#installation)
 * [פיתוח](https://he.wordpress.org/plugins/broadside-blocks/#developers)

 [תמיכה](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/broadside-blocks/)

## תיאור

Broadside Blocks is the companion plugin to the **Broadside** theme. It provides
the
 seventeen blocks that make a WordPress site read like a newspaper.

**Why a plugin and not part of the theme?** Because WordPress is right about this.

The Theme Directory forbids a theme from registering blocks, and the test behind
that rule is a good one:

> Themes handle presentation. Plugins handle content.
>  **Anything you lose when 
> you switch themes belongs in a plugin.**

A Short Answer, an FAQ, a Sources list — that is _content_. It lives in your post.
If
 it shipped inside a theme, changing theme would silently blank it and you would
have no way to get it back. So it lives here, where it is safe.

#### The editorial blocks

 * **Short Answer** — a direct, quotable answer at the top, for the reader in a 
   hurry
    and the search engine that wants to cite you.
 * **Key Takeaways** — the three or four things a reader should leave with.
 * **Table of Contents** — builds itself from your headings. Rename a heading and
   the
    contents follow; there is nothing to keep in sync by hand.
 * **FAQ** — questions and answers that also emit valid FAQPage structured data.
 * **Sources & References** — the receipts.
 * **Disclosure Table** — a comparison table whose partner links are always marked
   
   rel="sponsored nofollow" and which always prints a disclosure line.

#### The masthead furniture

Nameplate, folio rule, utility bar, colophon, byline, author bio, editorial standards,

the newsletter panel, the section grid, related stories and the lead-story well.

#### It needs the Broadside theme

These blocks render the theme's Customizer settings and call its template tags. 
Under
 any other theme they render nothing at all — deliberately, and without a 
fatal error. Install [Broadside](https://github.com/shadow-software/broadside-theme-for-wordpress);
WordPress 6.5+ will offer this plugin alongside it.

### Copyright

Broadside Blocks, Copyright 2026 Shadow Software LLC.
 Distributed under the terms
of the GNU GPL v2 or later. It bundles no third-party code, no images, no icons 
and no JavaScript libraries.

## התקנה

 1. Install and activate the **Broadside** theme.
 2. WordPress will offer to install this plugin alongside it. Accept.
 3. The blocks appear in the editor under the **Broadside — editorial** category.

## שאלות נפוצות

### I activated the plugin and nothing appears.

The blocks need the Broadside theme. Under any other theme they render nothing, 
on
 purpose, rather than fataling. An admin notice will tell you so.

### The site editor says a Broadside block is not supported.

The blocks render in PHP, and the editor has to be told about each one. Update to

the current release. A template that still shows the warning is running a build 
where the editor script was loaded once per block and never registered the masthead
blocks.

### The table of contents is empty.

It builds itself from the `h2` and `h3` headings in the post. A post with no headings

has no contents to list. Add a heading and it appears.

## סקירות

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## מפתחים

"Broadside Blocks" הוא תוסף קוד פתוח. האנשים הבאים תרמו ליצירת התוסף הזה.

תורמים

 *   [ Shadow Software LLC ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shadowsoftware/)

[ניתן לתרגם את "Broadside Blocks" לשפה שלך.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/broadside-blocks)

### מעוניינים בפיתוח?

[עיינו בקוד](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broadside-blocks/), ראו 
את הקוד ב-[SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/broadside-blocks/),
או הירשמו ל[לוג פיתוח](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/broadside-blocks/)
באמצעות [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/broadside-blocks/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## שינויים

#### 1.4.5

 * The colophon prints the podcast directory link, the YouTube link, and the publisher's
   legal name again. 1.4.4 had dropped them while restoring the editor registration.

#### 1.4.4

 * The site editor can open Broadside templates. Every block is registered in the
   editor, from one script, so byline, author bio, standards, related stories, the
   newsletter, and the rest no longer show as unsupported.
 * The front page's lead-column promo block is registered again.
 * The section grid can be limited to chosen categories, in order. Leave the list
   empty to keep ranking sections by readership. Queries respect the current Polylang
   language.

#### 1.3.3

 * Prefix: all plugin functions, hooks, and usermeta use the `broadside_blocks_`
   prefix (WordPress.org uniqueness requirement). Theme helpers such as `shadow_digest_get()`
   are unchanged — they live in the Broadside theme.
 * Filter `shadow_digest_emit_faq_schema` renamed to `broadside_blocks_emit_faq_schema`.
 * Usermeta `shadow_digest_role` migrated to `broadside_blocks_role` (legacy key
   still read until saved).

#### 1.3.2

 * FAQPage JSON-LD uses default wp_json_encode() flags so solidus is escaped (no
   script breakout).
 * Plugin URI points at this plugin's public repository.
 * Removed load_plugin_textdomain(); WordPress.org loads translations automatically.

#### 1.3.1

 * Moved into its own repository, with its own CI and its own signed release zips.
 * Version brought back into step with the Broadside theme, which it ships with.

#### 1.2.0

 * Initial release, split out of the Broadside theme: WordPress.org does not permit
   a
    theme to register blocks, and it is right not to.
 * Fixed: the blocks were never in their own editor category. The theme registered
   one
    slug while all 17 block.json files asked for another, so every block quietly
   landed in the editor's default bucket.

## מטא

 *  גרסה: **1.4.5**
 *  Last updated **לפני 2 ימים**
 *  Active installations **פחות מ-10**
 *  WordPress version ** 7.0 ומעלה **
 *  Tested up to **7.0.7**
 *  PHP version ** 8.5 ומעלה **
 *  שפה
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/broadside-blocks/)
 * Tags
 * [blocks](https://he.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/blocks/)[editorial](https://he.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/editorial/)
   [faq](https://he.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/faq/)[schema](https://he.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/schema/)
   [table of contents](https://he.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/table-of-contents/)
 *  [תצוגה מתקדמת](https://he.wordpress.org/plugins/broadside-blocks/advanced/)

## דרוגים

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## תורמים

 *   [ Shadow Software LLC ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shadowsoftware/)

## תמיכה

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