block templates – best practice?

• fountain

• June 23, 2022 at 4:27 pm

Hello,

I want the user to select a page-template and get a set of predefined ACF Gutenberg blocks. How can I achieve this ?

Or is this the wrong approach and I should use the Gutenberg “Pattern” feature and not rely on page-templates?

Any suggestions or ideas?
Best
P.

• John Huebner

• June 28, 2022 at 4:31 pm

This is a WP question and you’re more likely to get an answer from them. However, it seems that it’s not possible https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-create-block-templates-for-specific-page-templates/

• olaeborn

• August 31, 2022 at 5:28 am

I don’t know if its possible to connect it to a certain page template , it would be great if it was possible. But at least its possible to set predefined blocks to a post or page or custom post type.

Just add this function:

function myplugin_register_template() {
    $post_type_object = get_post_type_object( 'page' );
    $post_type_object->template = array(
        array( 'acf/block1' ), // the name of your block
        array( 'acf/block2' ), // the name of your block
    );
}
add_action( 'init', 'myplugin_register_template' );