Several Issues with Kadence Blocks Pro

[Tricia Francis]

Tricia Francis

May 6, 2020 at 6:23 pm

Hey!

I’m using your pro blocks plugin for the first time in a site staged here: *Login to see link We’re still in the early stages of building, and I need to know if I’ve made the right choice.

I really like your logic / UI in the dashboard. That’s what convinced me to go pro. Plus I like your block selection. But now that I’m digging in, I’m seeing some issues.

1) Color settings are not working consistently.

If you go the my link, you’ll see several sections – each with advanced titles. In just two cases, the color setting worked. When I inspect to see why, I see styles being added in different ways. The orange script-style title uses :root before the selector, but the script-style title lower in the page does not – and the color isn’t working. The one blue title in the page is adding the color as an inline style – but no other title does this. (I don’t think(?) we accessed html view to do this.)

The root cause of this is that we’re using Astra, and their selector for default colors includes .entry-content – which outweighs your selector. I can probably overcome this via my own css using :not, but down the road another dev or user may try to use the default color fields that Astra provides and get confused when they don’t work – or mess things up.

All this said… why would two of the titles use a different method to assign colors? And wouldn’t it make sense to inline colors to avoid css conflicts? Or maybe use the same logic you do with typography? I tested a title by changing its font family, and it worked – because you use an id selector in your css.

2) I’ve deactivated several blocks for now, but they are still listed when I go to block default settings.

Again… I prefer not to confuse my clients. They don’t need to see these blocks listed if they’re not active.

3) When I click the visibility icon (within block defaults) for Icon List, I get a box for (or titled) Spacer/Divider Settings.

4) I would like to add an Adobe font to Font Family Options

Is there a way to do this? Maybe a custom function you can provide for our child theme?

That’s it for now. I’m very concerned… I so want to love this plugin, but the bugs have me spooked. I’ve used my own custom theme in the past, along with ACF content modules. But it’s time to go Gutenberg, and I don’t have the time to convert my theme just yet. In the meantime, I need a reliable tool for new builds – and for more junior members of my team. Help, please? 😉

Thanks!