Blocks & Patterns

Plugin Reference

Full inventory of plugins in every CORA installation, plus optional plugins available by project scope.

Default plugin stack

Installed and activated automatically on every new CORA site.

Analytics

• CORA GTM — Google Tag Manager and GA4 configuration in Other Content
• Vital Term Analytics — pushes post type and taxonomy data to window.dataLayer on every page load
• Gravity Forms DataLayer — sends form submission events to GA4 server-side

Blocks

• Vital Swiper — Swiper JS slider block
• CORA Block – Post Card — post card display
• CORA Block – Post Details — accordion post content
• CORA Block – Announcement Bar — global alert bar
• CORA Block – FAQ Accordion — accordion FAQ display
• CORA Count Up — animated number counter
• CORA Block – Person Card — individual team member card
• CORA Block – Team Grid — curated team grid with bio flyouts
• CORA Block – Testimonial Card — testimonial display
• Image with Hotspots — interactive image markers
• CORA Video Block — inline and modal video
• Vital Modal — dialog modal for any block content
• Rive Animation — Rive .riv file embed
• CORA Breadcrumbs — accessible breadcrumb nav
• Sub Navigation Block — contextual secondary navigation
• Navigation Tabs — tabbed content panels

CMS

• CORA Theme Options — the Other Content global options page
• Default Featured Image — fallback image per post type
• Vital Block Settings – Display Mode — light/dark mode toggle for block groups
• CORA Block Settings – Background — layered compound backgrounds for Group blocks
• Vital Responsive Visibility — hide blocks on mobile or desktop
• Vital Mobile Content Justification — override content alignment on mobile
• CORA Animation — scroll-triggered block animations (fade in, slide up/left/right)
• CORA Media Focal Point — set image focal point in the media library
• Group Grid Row — full-viewport-width Group block variant

Forms

• Gravity Forms — primary form plugin (licensed)
• Vital Gravity Forms – Flag Optional Fields — marks optional fields visually
• Vital GForm Privacy Policy Injection — adds privacy policy link below form submit buttons

Post Types

• Vital People (Team) — People CPT with archive and single templates
• Vital Blog Posts — Blog CPT with archive, filtering, and author support
• Vital Resource Center — Resource CPT with gated/ungated templates
• Vital FAQs — FAQ CPT with category taxonomy
• Vital Events — Events CPT with date-based sorting
• Vital Testimonials — Testimonials CPT
• CORA Glossary — Glossary CPT

Search

• SearchWP — enhanced search with custom result ranking (licensed)

Technical

• Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) — custom field engine (licensed)
• WP Migrate — database migration between environments (licensed)
• Safe SVG — secure SVG uploads
• User Role Editor — fine-grained role and capability management
• Vital Hide From Archive — per-post toggle to exclude from archive
• Post Gating Plugin — gate content behind a Gravity Form submission
• Duplicate Post (Yoast) — clone posts and pages
• Simple Custom Post Order — drag-and-drop post reordering
• Media Library Organizer — media categories
• Enable Media Replace — replace media files in place
• WordPress SEO (Yoast) — SEO meta, sitemaps, and schema
• Custom Post Types — programmatic CPT registration base class

Optional plugins

Not installed by default — add when project scope requires them.

• CORA Compose — persona-based content personalization
• CORA Assist — on-page AI search widget
• CORA Compliance — cookie consent and accessibility auditing
• CORA Create AI — AI page builder (requires Claude API key)
• CORA Custom Redirects — Cloudflare edge redirects
• FacetWP — advanced archive filtering (licensed)
• CORA Block – FacetWP Filter — FacetWP block integration
• Vital ICS / Add to Calendar — calendar export for events
• Vital API Boilerplate — base class for third-party API integrations
• Vital Careers — Careers CPT (in progress)

Flagged as obsolete

These plugins exist in the codebase but are flagged as obsolete or unfinished. Do not activate on new projects:

• Cora Tango
• Cora Custom Palette
• Cora Tools
• Cora URL Replace
• Cora Login
• Cora Navigation
• Cora Enable People Posts
• Cora Blog Post Footer CTA