Blocks

Four blocks for the WordPress editor. Each previews live as you edit — what you see in the editor is what the page renders.

Block	Puts on the page
Cashback shops	A grid of shop tiles
Cashback coupons	A list of coupons
Shop search	The shop search box
Cashback balance	The logged-in member's balance

Find them under Cashback Tracker in the block inserter.

The four blocks in the inserter

Cashback shops

Setting	Notes
Layout	Grid for the full tile, Compact for the tighter one a sidebar wants
Shops to show	How many
Columns	Leave it alone and the grid fills the space it is given
Category	One shop category
Sort	Newest, name, cashback rate or member rating
Include / Exclude	Specific shop pages

Compact drops the tagline and the star rating. It keeps the shop's name and its rate — a tile with neither gives a visitor no reason to click.

The Cashback shops block, picking shops by name

Cashback coupons

Setting	Notes
Source	This shop follows the page it sits on; Chosen shops lets you pick
Shops	The picker, when the source is Chosen shops
Type	All, codes only, or deals only
Origin	All, Added by hand, or From the network
Coupons to show	How many
Layout	List or Compact
Show the shop domain	Worth turning off when every coupon is from the same shop

Source: This shop is what makes one block work in a shop template — it reads the shop from whichever page it is rendering on, so a single block in your theme serves every shop.

The Recently expired section appears only in the List layout. Compact is a sidebar list, and has no room for it.

Shop search and Cashback balance

Neither needs configuring. The search box takes a placeholder; the balance takes nothing at all and renders nothing for a logged-out visitor.

Blocks or shortcodes?

They render exactly the same thing — the block builds the shortcode's arguments and hands them to the same code.

Use blocks when you are working in the editor and want to see the result while you place it. Use shortcodes in classic editors, widget areas, page builders, or a theme template.

One difference worth knowing: the Coupons block's This shop source has no shortcode equivalent by that name — the shortcode expresses it as shop="…", naming the page explicitly. See [cashback-coupons].

Related

• Shortcodes

• Widgets

• Colours and CSS