Automatically add a block to newly created pages

• lolcatsftw

• March 26, 2023 at 12:54 am

I have a custom ‘hero’ block, which ultimately will be added to every single page.

Is there a way to automatically add this block to pages when they are created?

• wpfieldwork

• March 27, 2023 at 10:56 pm

You can do this with a block template. So in your theme’s functions file, you could set it up using something like:

function yourprefix_register_page_block_template() {
    $post_type_object = get_post_type_object( 'page' );
    $post_type_object->template = array(
        array( 'acf/hero' ), // may need to adjust this based on block name
    );
}
add_action( 'init', 'yourprefix_register_page_block_template' );

You can also do it with JS, the link above for block templates goes into how.