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WordPress plugin, free
Wholelink
Makes a whole Group, Column or Cover block clickable, so visitors can click anywhere on it, not only on a heading or a button. Query Loop post cards each link to their own post.
Free
in review for wordpress.org
No JavaScript
on the front end, a plain HTML link
Safe to remove
blocks stay valid without it
The problem
A link wraps text, not a whole card.
The block editor has no setting for this. A link can wrap text or a button, but not a whole Group, Column or Cover, so a card opens its page only from its heading or its button. Wholelink adds that setting to the core blocks you already use: no extra wrapper block to insert and nothing to rebuild.
What the free plugin does
- Adds a link button to the toolbar of the Group block, with its Row, Stack and Grid variations, the Column block and the Cover block. Search for a page or post or paste any URL, in the same link box as on the Button block.
- Inside a Query Loop, “Link to this post” turns each post card into one link to its own post.
- Opens the link in a new tab or marks it nofollow or sponsored, as on the Button block, and takes a label for screen readers.
- Keeps links, buttons and form fields inside the block working on their own, so a category link inside a post card still goes to the category.
- Lets keyboard users reach the block with Tab and shows a focus outline around the whole block. Screen readers announce your label, the post title in a Query Loop, or the block’s first heading or text.
- Renders a plain HTML link on the server. It works with JavaScript turned off, middle-click or Ctrl/Cmd-click opens it in a new tab, and search engines see a normal link.
- Adds one small stylesheet, only on pages that show a linked block. No JavaScript on the front end, no settings stored and no external service.
- Keeps the link in the block itself, so deactivating or deleting the plugin leaves every block valid. The blocks simply stop being links.
Text inside a linked block cannot be selected by dragging with the mouse: the link covers the whole block, so dragging moves the link instead.
Works with block themes and classic themes. Needs WordPress 6.5 or later and PHP 7.4 or later.
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