Download Version
- Toolset Types v3.6.1
- Toolset Blocks v1.6.19
- Toolset Advanced Export WordPress Plugin v1.0.0
- Toolset Cornerstone Integration WordPress Plugin v1.2
- Toolset Customiser Integration WordPress Plugin v1.3
- Toolset Divi Integration WordPress Plugin v1.7.2
- Toolset Genesis Integration WordPress Plugin v1.9.2
- Toolset Starter Theme v1.4.2
- Toolset Twenty Fifteen Integration WordPress Plugin v1.4
- Toolset Twenty Integration WordPress Plugin v1.4.1
- Toolset Twenty Seventeen Integration WordPress Plugin v1.2.1
- Toolset CRED Commerce WordPress Plugin v1.8.5
- Toolset Avada Integration WordPress Plugin v1.5.3
- Toolset Access v2.9.3
- Toolset Forms v2.6.23
- Toolset CRED Layouts v2.6.17
- Toolset Maps v2.2.0
- Toolset WooCommerce Views v3.1.6
- Toolset Courses v1.0.6
- Toolset Divi Photography v1.0.11
- Toolset Divi Nonprofit v1.1.4
- Toolset Divi Business Pro v1.0.15
- Toolset Open Road Child Theme v2.0.3
- Toolset Jasmine v2.0.2
- Toolset Divi Contractor v1.1.4
- Toolset Views v3.6.18
- Toolset Classifieds Addon v0.4
- Toolset Module Manager v1.8.6
Introduction to Toolset Types & Blocks
Product Overview
Toolset Types & Blocks is a set of advanced content building tools designed specifically for WordPress users. Toolset Types allows you to easily create custom post types, fields, and taxonomies for different content structures without programming. Together with the Toolset Blocks plugin, users can build flexible, responsive pages and templates based on custom fields and dynamic data in the Gutenberg editor.
The tool is especially suitable for websites that need to display complex content relationships, such as directory websites, real estate, educational platforms, product catalogs, etc. It frees developers and designers from tedious coding and template development, enabling a visual, low-code content building experience.
Key Features
- Intuitive custom content building: Easily create and manage custom post types, custom fields (multiple field types are supported, such as text, images, dates, URLs, checkboxes, etc.), and custom taxonomies for full control of your site's data structure.
- Visualize the template design: Design single page templates, content lists and archive pages with custom content by drag and drop using the powerful block editor to personalize the layout without writing a single line of code.
- Dynamic content presentation: Automatically populate data from custom fields into designed templates to ensure real-time and easy content updates.
- Advanced content search and filtering: Build advanced search forms for any custom content type, with support for multi-criteria filtering and AJAX search results, to dramatically improve the user's search efficiency and experience.
- Flexible content relationships: Create and manage associations between different custom content types, such as associating “Real Estate” with “Brokers” for a complex data presentation.
- Map Integration: Easily integrate location information into Google Maps or Azure Maps and display location markers and details for customized content.
- Front-end content submission and editing: Support for building front-end forms allows users to submit, edit and manage their own content on the front-end of the site, perfect for building community or directory sites.
Target audience and usage scenarios
Applicable Population:
- Website owners and small businesses: Looking to build custom websites that are feature-rich but don't want to invest a lot of development costs.
- Content creators and bloggers: Users who need more flexibility in organizing and presenting different types of content (e.g., recipes, book reviews, travel journals).
- Digital Marketers: Looking to create highly customized landing pages or product showcase pages to optimize conversions.
- Non-technical webmasters: Users who lack programming knowledge but need to extend the functionality of WordPress.
- Freelancers and Agencies: Build customized WordPress solutions for your clients to increase development efficiency.
Usage Scenarios:
- Build a real estate information platform: Create “Listing” custom article type with fields like “Price”, “Number of bedrooms”, “Geographic location”, etc. fields, and design the search and map display functions.
- Build a recruitment or talent pool website: Create “Job” and “Resume” custom post types that allow users to submit a job or upload a resume, and provide filtering and searching.
- Create a product catalog or e-commerce extension: Add more detailed custom attributes to WooCommerce products and design unique product display templates and filters.
- Event management website: Post all kinds of events, including “date”, “time”, “location”, “ticket price” and other information, and Support search by date and type.
- Online courses or educational platforms: Build a custom type of “Course” with fields such as “Instructor”, “Course Duration”, “Difficulty”, etc.. And display the course list and details.
- Business directory or service provider listings: Collects and displays information about local merchants or service providers, with support for categorization and advanced search.
Comparison of similar plugins
Below is a comparison of Toolset Types & Blocks with common alternatives in terms of core functionality:
| Core functional items | Toolset Types & Blocks | Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) + CPT UI | JetEngine (Crocoblock) |
| Custom Article Type Creation | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Custom Field Creation | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Custom Taxonomy Creation | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Block editor integration (visual design of dynamic content) | ✅ | ❌ (additional plugin or code required) | ✅ |
| Dynamic content list/archive page design | ✅ | ❌ (additional plugin or code required) | ✅ |
| Advanced front-end search and filtering | ✅ | ❌ (additional plugin or code required) | ✅ |
| Content Relationship Management | ✅ | ✅ (requires ACF Pro) | ✅ |
| Front-end content submission/editing forms | ✅ | ✅ (Requires ACF Pro + Extra Forms plugin) | ✅ |
| Map integrated display | ✅ | ❌ (additional plugin or code required) | ✅ |
A description of the current product's unique features (Toolset Types & Blocks): The biggest advantage of Toolset Types & Blocks is that itsHighly integrated no-code visualization build experience. It seamlessly combines the creation of custom content types and fields with the dynamic content display function based on block editor. Users can complete the entire process from data structure definition to front-end display layout in the same environment, greatly reducing the technical threshold and development time. In particular, its powerfulFront-end search and map integration display functionalityThe most important thing is that all of them can be implemented intuitively without writing code, which in many alternatives usually requires additional plugin combinations or custom development.
Description of features specific to alternatives:
- Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) + CPT UI: ACF excels in custom field flexibility and developer friendliness and is the first choice of many WordPress developers for building custom fields.CPT UI specializes in the creation of custom post types and taxonomies. Their combination is very powerful in terms of content structure definition, but dynamically displaying this custom content on the front-end and enabling advanced search usually requires developers to write PHP code or rely on further integration with other page builders/plugins.The ACF Pro version offers more advanced features such as content relationships and front-end forms, but visually building dynamic content is still its shortcoming.
- JetEngine (Crocoblock): JetEngine has deep integration with the Elementor page builder as part of the Crocoblock suite. It also provides the ability to create custom content types, fields, and taxonomies, and works well with Elementor widgets for displaying dynamic content.JetEngine's strengths lie in its synergistic workflow with Elementor, which may have a smoother learning curve for Elementor users, and its broad feature coverage. However, its visual building experience is largely dependent on Elementor, and may not be as intuitive as Toolset Blocks for those who don't use Elementor.
User Feedback Highlights
- Flexible and powerful, low-code experience: Users praise Toolset for visualizing complex custom fields and template functionality, dramatically reducing development time.
- Gutenberg Deep Integration: Designer feedback enables dynamic content display with the block editor without writing code.
- Official documentation is well developed and support is active: Official support and tutorial resources are abundant to help users quickly master plugin usage.
Suggestions for pairing with other plugins/themes
- Page builder: Ideal for deep pairing with the Gutenberg editor, with block enhancement plug-ins such as Kadence Blocks, Stackable, etc., to improve design flexibility.
- E-commerce plugin: Integration with WooCommerce to support building customized product displays and filters.
- Multilingualism and Translation: Perfectly support WPML, no pressure to build multi-language website.
- Membership and Directory Systems: Work with Ultimate Member, MemberPress and other plugins to expand member display and directory functionality.
