Reply To: Register Block Parent Attribute

• misfist

• April 9, 2020 at 11:55 am

In case anyone else is looking for an answer, I found a solution…

Use block filters.

The blocks.registerBlockType filter lets you modify block settings. So, I just added a parent setting with the block I wanted as a parent. Since the parent prop takes an array of blocks, more than one parent can be named.

/**
 * Set ACF block parent
 * @param {obj} settings 
 * @param {string} name 
 */
function setBlockParent( settings, name ) {
    if ( name !== 'acf/post-content' ) {
        return settings;
    }
 
    return lodash.assign({}, settings, {
        parent: [
			'namespace/featured-content',
		]
    } );
}
 
addFilter(
    'blocks.registerBlockType',
    'namespace/set-post-content-parent',
    setBlockParent
);

Hope it helps anyone else.

ref: https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/developers/filters/block-filters/#filters