Hello.
With acf I was able to successfully integrate several own blocks into Gutenberg. So far everything has fit here – thanks to acf!
Now I wanted to clean up the WordPress backend in the Gutenberg editor and hide some blocks.
As far as I understood it correctly, here is the standard way via function.php and “allowed_block_types”. So I allow all blocks I define here. That works so far, but now also the acf blocks disappear, because I didn’t explicitly allow them!
Here is an excerpt:
function uniques_allowed_block_types( $allowed_blocks ) {
return array(
// Common blocks category
'core/paragraph',
'core/image',
'core/heading',
'core/gallery',
...
// 'core-embed/tumblr',
// 'core-embed/videopress',
// 'core-embed/wordpress-tv',
// 'core-embed/amazon-kindle',
// reusable blocks
'core/block',
);
}
add_filter( 'allowed_block_types', 'uniques_allowed_block_types' );
What do I have to do, or what is the correct statement in the array called, so that I can see my blocks in the Gutenberg editor?
best regards
After testing, the answer is acf/YOUR_BLOCK_NAME. You can see the names of all the blocks when you switch to the Gutenberg’s Code Editor – access it from the Gutenberg’s options tab…
This is what I’m using to disable core blocks, and WooCommerce blocks. The core blocks I want to use are at the bottom.
function remove_default_blocks($allowed_blocks){
// Get widget blocks and registered by plugins blocks
$registered_blocks = WP_Block_Type_Registry::get_instance()->get_all_registered();
// Disable Widgets Blocks
unset($registered_blocks['core/calendar']);
unset($registered_blocks['core/legacy-widget']);
unset($registered_blocks['core/rss']);
unset($registered_blocks['core/search']);
unset($registered_blocks['core/tag-cloud']);
unset($registered_blocks['core/latest-comments']);
unset($registered_blocks['core/archives']);
unset($registered_blocks['core/categories']);
unset($registered_blocks['core/latest-posts']);
unset($registered_blocks['core/shortcode']);
// Disable WooCommerce Blocks
unset($registered_blocks['woocommerce/handpicked-products']);
unset($registered_blocks['woocommerce/product-best-sellers']);
unset($registered_blocks['woocommerce/product-category']);
unset($registered_blocks['woocommerce/product-new']);
unset($registered_blocks['woocommerce/product-on-sale']);
unset($registered_blocks['woocommerce/product-top-rated']);
unset($registered_blocks['woocommerce/products-by-attribute']);
unset($registered_blocks['woocommerce/featured-product']);
// Now $registered_blocks contains only blocks registered by plugins, but we need keys only
$registered_blocks = array_keys($registered_blocks);
// Merge allowed core blocks with plugins blocks
return array_merge(array(
'core/image',
'core/paragraph',
'core/heading',
'core/list'
), $registered_blocks);
}
add_filter('allowed_block_types', 'remove_default_blocks');
Just to add that even though my ACF block was registered with underscores in the name, these had to be replaced with hyphens in the allowed_block_types() function for it to work!
add_filter( 'allowed_block_types', 'custom_allowed_block_types' );
function custom_allowed_block_types( $allowed_blocks ) {
return array(
'acf/single-text-column',
'acf/text-image-block'
);
}
Hope this helps someone 🙂
