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Gutenberg blocks your editors will actually use

Most custom block libraries get abandoned within a month. Here is what makes editors actually reach for the blocks you built them.

Eyamin Hossain · Founder12 min readAugust 2026

The blocks that survive contact with a real editorial team are the ones that remove a decision, not the ones that add options. A hero block with twelve toggle switches gets used once and then copy-pasted forever; a hero block with three required fields and sane defaults gets used every day.

We design block libraries backwards from the content model, not the design file: what does an editor actually need to say, and what is the smallest set of fields that lets them say it correctly every time.

Eyamin HossainFounder · BuddyDevs
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