Blockparty — Modal

A WordPress plugin that adds a custom Gutenberg block to display a modal dialog in the editor and on the frontend. The modal opens when a trigger (e.g. a button) is activated.

📋 Description

Blockparty Modal is a WordPress plugin that lets you add accessible modal dialogs to your content via the Gutenberg block editor. You define the modal content and behaviour in the editor; on the frontend, the modal is shown when the user activates a linked trigger (such as a button block).

✨ Features

• Native Gutenberg Block: Full integration with the WordPress block editor
• Modal dialog: Uses the native <dialog> element for semantics and accessibility
• Configurable content: Title (with heading level), rich text content, and optional close button
• Close behaviour: Choose how the modal closes — click outside, close button only, or prevent closing by backdrop
• Trigger linking: Link a block to open a specific modal via linkedModalId; by default only the Button block is allowed as a trigger (filterable)
• Stable modal ID: Each modal can have a unique ID for trigger association
• Layout & styling: Supports wide and full-width alignment, dimensions, colors, and spacing
• Internationalized: Multilingual support with translation files (French included)
• View script: Frontend script handles opening/closing and focus management

🔧 Requirements

• WordPress: Version 6.8 or higher
• PHP: Version 8.1 or higher
• PHP Extension: ext-json

📦 Installation

Installation via Composer

composer require beapi/blockparty-modal

Manual Installation

1. Download the latest version of the plugin
2. Extract the archive to the /wp-content/plugins/ folder
3. Activate the plugin from the WordPress "Plugins" menu

Development Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/BeAPI/blockparty-modal.git
cd blockparty-modal

# Install PHP dependencies
composer install

# Install JavaScript dependencies
npm install

# Build the assets
npm run build

🚀 Usage

1. Open the Gutenberg block editor
2. Add a Modal block (e.g. search for "Modal" in the Widgets category)
3. Configure the modal:
   • Title and Heading level for the dialog heading
   • Content (rich text) for the body
   • Modal ID — set a unique ID so another block can open this modal (optional)
   • Close behaviour — "Any" (click outside or close button), "Close button only", or "None"
   • Close button — show or hide the close button
   • Prevent scroll — lock body scroll when the modal is open
4. To open the modal from a trigger block:
   • Add a Button block (by default, only the Button block can be a modal trigger)
   • In the block sidebar, open Attached modal and select the modal to open
   • On the frontend, clicking that button will open the corresponding modal

Blocks allowed as modal triggers

By default, only the core/button block can be linked to a modal. To allow other blocks (e.g. paragraph, image, or custom blocks), use the filter blockparty_modal_trigger_allowed_blocks in your theme or plugin:

add_filter( 'blockparty_modal_trigger_allowed_blocks', function ( $blocks ) {
    $blocks[] = 'core/paragraph';
    $blocks[] = 'my-plugin/cta';
    return $blocks;
} );

• Filter name: blockparty_modal_trigger_allowed_blocks
• Parameters: array — List of block names (e.g. 'core/button').
• Default: array( 'core/button' )

Blocks allowed inside the modal

The modal block uses InnerBlocks for its content. By default, a fixed set of blocks is allowed (paragraph, heading, list, image, button, etc.). To change which blocks can be inserted inside the modal, use the filter blockparty_modal_inner_allowed_blocks in your theme or plugin:

add_filter( 'blockparty_modal_inner_allowed_blocks', function ( array $blocks ) {
    // Add more blocks
    $blocks[] = 'core/cover';
    $blocks[] = 'core/group';
    return $blocks;
} );

// Or restrict to a subset
add_filter( 'blockparty_modal_inner_allowed_blocks', function () {
    return [ 'core/paragraph', 'core/image', 'core/button' ];
} );

• Filter name: blockparty_modal_inner_allowed_blocks
• Parameters: array — List of block names (e.g. 'core/paragraph', 'core/button'). Default list includes paragraph, heading, list, image, gallery, video, buttons, embed, shortcode, etc.

🛠️ Development

Project Structure

blockparty-modal/
├── src/                         # Block sources
│   └── blockparty-modal/
│       ├── block.json           # Block configuration
│       ├── edit.js              # Edit component
│       ├── save.js              # Save component
│       ├── view.js              # Frontend open/close logic
│       ├── index.js             # Entry point
│       ├── utils.js             # Helpers (e.g. stable modal ID)
│       ├── editor.scss          # Editor styles
│       └── style.scss           # Frontend styles
├── build/                       # Compiled assets (blocks-manifest.php, etc.)
├── languages/                   # Translation files
├── blockparty-modal.php         # Main plugin file
├── composer.json                # PHP dependencies
└── package.json                 # JavaScript dependencies

Available Scripts

JavaScript

# Development with hot reload
npm start

# Production build
npm run build

# JavaScript linter
npm run lint:js

# CSS linter
npm run lint:css

# Code formatting
npm run format

# Create plugin ZIP archive
npm run plugin-zip

# Start local development environment
npm run start:env

# Stop local development environment
npm run stop:env

PHP

# Check code with PHP_CodeSniffer
composer cs

# Automatically fix code
composer cb

# Analyze with Psalm
composer psalm

# Run unit tests
composer phpunit

Coding Standards

The project follows WordPress coding standards:

• WPCS (WordPress Coding Standards) for PHP
• ESLint with WordPress rules for JavaScript
• Psalm for PHP static analysis
• GrumPHP to automate pre-commit checks

Development Environment Setup

The plugin uses @wordpress/env to create a local WordPress development environment:

# Start the environment
npm run start:env

# Access WordPress
# URL: http://localhost:8888
# Default credentials: admin / password

# Stop the environment
npm run stop:env

🔍 Code Quality

The project integrates several quality tools:

• PHP_CodeSniffer: PHP coding standards verification
• Psalm: PHP static code analysis
• PHPCompatibility: PHP compatibility verification
• PHP Parallel Lint: PHP syntax error detection
• GrumPHP: Pre-commit checks automation

🌍 Internationalization

The plugin is fully internationalized (text domain: blockparty-modal). Translation files are available in the languages/ folder.

Available Languages

• English (default)
• French

Adding a Translation

1. Use the languages/blockparty-modal.pot file as a base
2. Create your .po and .mo files
3. Place them in the languages/ folder

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! To contribute:

1. Fork the project
2. Create a branch for your feature (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

Make sure your code:

• Follows WordPress coding standards
• Passes all quality tests (PHPCS, Psalm, ESLint)
• Is properly documented
• Includes translations if necessary

📄 License

This plugin is distributed under the GPL-2.0-or-later license. See the LICENSE file for more details.

👥 Authors

Be API Technical Team

• Email: technical@beapi.fr
• Website: https://beapi.fr

🔗 Useful Links

• WordPress Block Editor Documentation
• WordPress Coding Standards
• Block API Reference
• HTML dialog element (MDN)

📝 Changelog

See readme.txt for the full version history. Recent highlights:

• 1.0.6

  • Fix blueprint.json config.

• 1.0.5

  • Add blueprint.json to test the plugin on WordPress Playground.
  • Add screen-reader-text class to close button element when display icon only is selected.

• 1.0.4

  • Filter blockparty_modal_inner_allowed_blocks to control allowed blocks in the modal.

• 1.0.3

  • Fix: prevent adding linkedModalId attribute to non allowed blocks.
  • Set min required PHP version to 8.1

• 1.0.2

  • Filter blockparty_modal_trigger_allowed_blocks to control which blocks can be modal triggers; dialog margin and InnerBlocks fixes.
  • Crawl Modal blocks from patterns
  • Style issues

• 1.0.1

  • Filter blockparty_modal_trigger_allowed_blocks to control which blocks can be modal triggers; dialog margin and InnerBlocks fixes.

• 1.0.0

  • Initial release (Modal block, trigger linking, close behaviour, i18n).

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