Create CMS blocks with an editor
Description
Highlights
About the Extension
Standard CMS elements not enough for your corporate design?
You know the limits of shopping experiences: predefined blocks, little room for layout and content, and every custom element eats developer time. Agencies and merchants with a clear corporate design want to build their own CMS blocks without starting from scratch each time.
You drag fields such as text, links, images, entities, or dynamic product groups into place. Finished elements live in a plugin and travel with you to the next shop.
Why the default often falls short
Shopware ships solid base blocks. As soon as landing pages, brand worlds, or recurring modules leave the corporate design, things get tight. Repetitions for sliders and tabs, required fields, a clear preview before go-live: the default set does not cover that reliably.
You need a structure that editorial and technical teams share: fields in the editor, output in the template, reuse across projects.
How CmsElementBuilder solves it
CmsElementBuilder gives you an editor for individual CMS blocks and content elements in shopping experiences. You define fields via drag and drop, maintain labels and help texts, and adjust the Twig template in the Files tab or on the file system. Create elements in the Administration or via the console. New elements start with all available field types as a scaffold you reduce to what you need.
Typical use cases:
- Hero areas, teasers, and brand modules that match the corporate design
- Sliders, tabs, and cards built with repetitions
- Product or category references including dynamic product groups
- Reusable blocks for several agency clients
The preview shows how content elements look in shopping experiences before they go live. In the block configuration you see the rough layout next to the settings. For editors you add preview images so the right element is obvious. On entity fields you pick several preview properties in the order you want, for example name and number of a category.
Control for editorial teams and Administration
Mark fields as required so incomplete content cannot be saved. Hide elements in the Administration that shopping experiences do not need. When the list grows, search finds the right block. If a plugin is deactivated and references break, you check those spots and clean them up.
Import and export moves blocks between environments. CMS elements live in your extension or custom theme, not in the builder itself. They survive updates and can be versioned.
Available field types
- Link
- Text
- Textarea
- Html
- Number
- Media
- Repetition
- Entity (e.g. category, product)
- Dynamic product group
- Color picker
- Date and time
- Select
- Radio
- Checkbox
For the category entity field, a selection field with category path helps you find the right one.
Inspiration, getting started, and the CMS Collection
A free sample plugin with content elements is ready to download as a boilerplate. The premium theme LUMINA one by 8works uses the extension for extra content elements. From version 4.6.0 it works with Pixup AI Translator.
CMS trio:
- CmsElementBuilder: Create individual CMS blocks and content elements for shopping experiences.
- FlexContent: Display shopping experiences flexibly and rule based at different shop positions.
- CmsTools: Overview of category layouts and content elements in shopping experiences.
Install the extension, create your first element in the editor, and test the preview in a shopping experience. You see how quickly standard layouts become individual shop experiences.
FAQ
Compatibility
Our extension is generally compatible with all our own extensions, provided that the respective functionalities do not conflict with each other.
For third-party extensions, including Shopware’s premium extensions, we cannot guarantee unrestricted compatibility. Should any issues arise in this context, our support team will be happy to assist you.
Naturally, when new Shopware versions are released, we ensure that our extension is made compatible with them in a timely manner.
Please note that our statements refer to the Shopware Community Edition with the standard responsive theme.
Support
Do you need assistance? Our support team is at your disposal in both German and English.
To process your request as quickly as possible, please ensure that:
- The latest version of our extension, compatible with your Shopware version, is installed
- You have a valid rental or subscription license
- The issue also occurs in the Shopware standard theme and with all third-party extensions deactivated
- No changes have been made by you or third parties to the plugin code
- You have studied the manual in advance, as it already contains many helpful pieces of information
In most cases, it is necessary for us to have unrestricted access to your shop’s administration in order to analyze and fix the problem. Additionally, it may be required for you to provide us with FTP or ideally SSH credentials for your server. Please note that setting up and later removing these accesses is your responsibility.
For a smooth troubleshooting process, we recommend conducting support in a staging or development environment. This allows issues to be reproduced under controlled conditions without affecting your live shop.
To submit a support request, please use your Shopware account or our support portal at https://support.netinventors.de.
Please note:
For paid extensions, we offer free support.
For free extensions, we are also happy to assist you, but we will charge for the effort separately.
Trial Version
Of course, you can test all our extensions free of charge for 30 days.
Use this time to familiarize yourself thoroughly with the functions before making a decision.
If you require advice, just contact our support at https://support.netinventors.de.
Features
We generally develop new features based on the latest available Shopware version.
The functions and highlights listed in our product descriptions therefore always refer to the newest Shopware feature version available at the time of release.
Custom Development
Do you need an extension tailored exactly to your requirements?
We are happy to customize existing extensions or develop a completely new plugin according to your specifications.
Just get in touch with us and let us know how we can assist you.
Transparency and Ongoing Development
We place great value on open and transparent communication. Through regular updates and ongoing development, we ensure that our extensions are always up-to-date. Your feedback is particularly important to us—it helps us better tailor our products to your needs.
If you are satisfied with our extension, we would also greatly appreciate a review—it helps other users with their purchasing decisions.
Disclaimer
Despite careful testing and continuous development of our extensions, we do not guarantee their error-free operation in all conceivable system environments. We are not liable for damages resulting from the use of our products, unless these are based on intentional or grossly negligent behavior on our part. Please check before use and when updating that all requirements in your system environment are met.
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Details
- Available: English, German
- Latest update: 9 August 2026
- Publication date: 30 September 2021
- Version: 7.4.2
- Category: Shopping Experiences
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Reviews (2)
Perfekt, um individuelle Erlebniswelt-Elemente in kürzester Zeit zu erstellen
Für mich persönlich ein Game-Changer
Es empfiehlt sich, den Block, den man gerne hätte vorher lokal ohne Twig zu schreiben und dann entsprechend nur die Variablen einzusetzen und die Config entsprechend zu erstellen.
Mit dem Plugin hat man die Möglichkeit, sehr flexibel Inahltselemente exakt nach eigenen Vorstellungen zu erstellen und diese dann wie gewohnt an den verschiedensten Stellen der Website zu verwenden.
About the Extension Partner
Net Inventors GmbH
Partner Status
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Shopware
Silver Partner -
Shopware
Premium Extension Partner
Details
- Ø-Rating: 4.7
- Partner since: 2014
- Extensions: 115
- Certifications: 8
Support
- Based in: Germany
- Speaks: German, English
- Response time: Very quickly