WBD Timeline Block For Gutenberg

WBD Timeline Block for Gutenberg is the most intuitive, lightweight, and customizable WordPress timeline plugin designed specifically for the modern block editor. Whether you need to showcase a company history, a project roadmap, event schedules, or personal milestones, this plugin allows you to build beautiful, responsive, and animated timelines without writing a single line of code or relying on heavy page builders.

With the WBD Timeline Builder block, you can organize chronological content using different timeline layouts, customize each timeline item, and control how your timeline looks across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.

No coding or third-party page builder is required.

Key Features for a Perfect Timeline:

• 3 Stunning Layouts: Choose from Vertical Alternating (zigzag), Vertical One-sided, and a touch-friendly Horizontal slider layout with left/right navigation.
• Responsive Control: Set custom columns for the horizontal slider (Desktop, Tablet, Mobile) and watch vertical timelines automatically adapt to smaller screens.
• Highly Customizable Content: Each timeline card supports a Custom Date/Label, Title, Description, Image (with position and object-fit control), Call-to-Action Link, and a custom Marker Icon.
• Advanced Typography & Design: Fully control font families, responsive font sizes, link padding, border radius, and accent colors for every single element.
• Scroll-Triggered Animations: Bring your history or roadmap to life with smooth reveal animations (Fade Up, Fade In, Slide In, Zoom In) as users scroll down the page.
• Accessible & Performance-Optimized: Respects prefers-reduced-motion settings for accessibility. Powered by vanilla JS and IntersectionObserver—no heavy jQuery libraries.
• Server-Side Rendered: Ensures SEO-friendly HTML markup, dynamic CSS variable injection, and maximum security.

Where can you use WBD Timeline Block?

• Showcase tutorial/process steps in timeline format.
• Create a program timeline.
• Represent history.
• Create events/appointments timeline.
• Job stories/achievements timeline.
• Personal story timeline.
• Product roadmap.

Timeline Content

Each timeline item can include:

• Custom date or label
• Title
• Description
• Image
• Call-to-action link
• Custom marker
• Marker icon

Image settings include position and object-fit controls to help maintain a consistent visual presentation.

Responsive Timeline Design

WBD Timeline Builder is designed for responsive WordPress websites.

For the horizontal timeline layout, you can configure columns for:

• Desktop
• Tablet
• Mobile

Vertical timeline layouts adapt to smaller screen sizes so your chronological content remains usable across different devices.

Timeline Animations

WBD Timeline Builder includes scroll-triggered reveal animations for timeline content.

Available animation styles include:

• Fade Up
• Fade In
• Slide In
• Zoom In

Accessibility-Conscious Motion

Accessibility is considered in the timeline animation experience.

WBD Timeline Builder respects the user’s prefers-reduced-motion setting. When reduced motion is enabled at the operating-system or browser level, timeline animations are disabled. For best accessibility, use clear headings, readable text, descriptive links, and meaningful content when creating your timeline.

Performance-Conscious Implementation

WBD Timeline Builder uses vanilla JavaScript and the browser’s IntersectionObserver API for timeline animations.

The plugin does not require jQuery for its timeline functionality. Keeping the timeline functionality focused helps avoid adding unrelated page-building features to your WordPress website.

Actual frontend performance can vary depending on your WordPress theme, hosting environment, other plugins, assets, and page content.

Server-Side Rendered Block

The timeline block uses server-side rendering to generate its frontend output.

This allows timeline content to be generated as part of the WordPress page output while keeping the editing experience integrated with Gutenberg.

SEO-Friendly Timeline Content

WBD Timeline Builder helps you organize chronological information in a clear and structured timeline format using the WordPress Block Editor.

Timeline content can be useful for:

• Company history pages
• Product development timelines
• Project roadmaps
• Event schedules
• Process steps
• Milestone pages
• Achievement timelines
• Personal stories
• Tutorials and sequential content

Development

Public source code repository:
https://github.com/wpbranddigital/timeline-builder-block

Build Instructions:

1. npm install
2. npm run build
3. npm run start (development)
   WBD Timeline Builder is built using @wordpress/scripts.