Title: Content Area Block
Author: iansvo
Published: <strong>July 31, 2025</strong>
Last modified: January 2, 2026

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# Content Area Block

 By [iansvo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iansvo/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/content-area-block.1.0.2.zip)

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## Description

This block allows you to add an additional block content area to a site-editor template
and store the block output inside a meta field. By default, WordPress posts or pages
may only store blocks in one place: post_content. These blocks are output on the
page using the core/post-content block. This block allows you to have multiple “
outlets” where you can add blocks so you can have post-specific blocks appear in
more than one location in the template.

The block is a fork of the core/post-content block that uses a customized version
of the useEntityBlockEditor hook which supports meta keys. The blocks for your content
area are then stored inside that meta key (instead of post_content). This allows
you to keep the blocks separate and you can use as many of these on a single template
as you want (but in most cases 2 is probably enough). It’s all up to you!

### Requirements

 1. Using this plugin requires you to enable template previews (which will let you 
    visually see the new content area you’re adding). This can be enabled on any given
    post or page, but you can optionally set it on by default using a filter.
 2. Your theme must be a block theme (i.e. it uses the site editor). This won’t work
    for a hybrid or classic theme (which has no concept of live template preview in
    the block editor).

### Hooks

If you want to disable this meta key’s registration, add the following to your theme
or plugin:

    ```
    <?php
    add_filter( 'content_area_block_register_default_meta', '__return_false' );
    ```

For advanced users, there is also a filter for the entire block’s output. See the
below snippet from render.php:

    ```
    <?php
    /**
     * Filter the block's frontend output.
     *
     * @param string $parsed_content The parsed block content for output.
     * @param int    $block_post_id  The current post ID the block is displaying in.
     * @param array  $attributes     The block attributes.
     * @param string $content        The original unparsed block content.
     * @param object $block          The current parsed block object.
     *
     * @return The block content for output on the frontend.
     */
    $output = apply_filters( 
        'content_area_block_content', 
        do_blocks( str_replace( ']]>', ']]&gt;', $content ) ), 
        $block_post_id, 
        $attributes, 
        $content, 
        $block 
    );
    ```

### Contributing

The plugin source code may be found here: https://github.com/iansvo/content-area-
block.

To build the plugin from source, you must have NodeJS (v24+) installed.

Setup Steps:

 1. Navigate to the project folder in your terminal.
 2. Run `npm i` to install dependencies.
 3. Run `npm run build` to performn the initial build.

If you’re using wp-env to run the plugin…
 1. Run `npm run wp-env start` to start
the docker container. 2. Run `npm run start` to watch for file changes.

## Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

 *   Content Area Adds a block content area to a site editor template.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Good idea and well done!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-idea-and-well-done/)󠁿

 [Kevin Koslowski](https://profiles.wordpress.org/themadwizard/) January 21, 2026

I find this plugin exceptionally well done. Stumbled upon this while searching for
a way to accomplish this myself (guess the article on your website helped a lot!).
I think this should make it into the WordPress Core, but meanwhile it’s cool, that
it’s in the plugin repository. This was the missing piece to build my client’s website
in a really sustainable way as a blocks theme. I like how it comes without any further
ceremony, following the philosophy “Do one thing and do it good”. Please maintain
this in future releases. Thank you! ❤️

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## Contributors & Developers

“Content Area Block” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ iansvo ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iansvo/)

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### Interested in development?

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check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/content-area-block/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/content-area-block/)
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## Changelog

#### 1.0.1

 * Additional minor bug fixes, improve filtering.

#### 1.0.0

 * Fixed issues with undo, paste, and default block display.

#### 0.1.0

 * Release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.2**
 *  Last updated **3 months ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-area-block/)
 * Tags
 * [block](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/block/)[content](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/content/)
   [fse](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/fse/)[site editor](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/site-editor/)
   [template](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/template/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/content-area-block/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ iansvo ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iansvo/)

## Support

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