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  • October 14, 2019 at 3:15 PM #16510
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    Hello,
    I’d like to force to use the block in a registered post type. I can use template argument in register_post_type, but it seems that is not working.

    Is it possible?

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  • October 15, 2019 at 4:41 PM #16529
    Anh Tran
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    Hello,

    I’m not sure what you meant. If a post has block editor enabled, then all the registered blocks are available. Or did you mean to set the default content for a post of a specific post type? I found a post on this topic, but not sure if that works for Gutenberg.

    October 15, 2019 at 7:16 PM #16539
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    Hello in register_post_type, you can have block templates. It should be nice to have as default the block in a post type:

    ‘template’ => array( ‘layout/name-block’ ),
    ‘template_lock’ => ‘all’,

    But I’m not sure which values use in template.

    Regards.

    October 18, 2019 at 10:41 AM #16579
    Anh Tran
    Keymaster

    I got it.

    The custom blocks registered with MB Blocks have id meta-box/{$block_id}. So you can define your post type template like:

    'template' => ['meta-box/hero', 'meta-box/team-member']
    October 18, 2019 at 4:25 PM #16597
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    Very nice!!!

    Thanks!

    October 18, 2019 at 4:33 PM #16598
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    I get a blank page when i use the template…

    December 21, 2020 at 7:15 AM #23655
    Jacob Hill
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    I’m wondering the same thing! I’d like to create a CPT, register a block, and then REQUIRE that block on new CPT items, but prevent other blocks from being added.

    When I add the template line, I also get a blank page.

    Reference: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-it-possible-to-create-a-standardized-and-fixed-blocks-cpt/#post-12773298

    December 21, 2020 at 8:52 AM #23656
    Jacob Hill
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    I figured this out! I had to use different syntax:

    'template' => array(
    array( 'meta-box/{$block_id}' ),
),
'template_lock' => 'all',
    December 21, 2020 at 10:08 AM #23659
    Jacob Hill
    Participant

    Can this be added to the blocks extension’s documentation? https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/mb-blocks/

    December 21, 2020 at 2:19 PM #23668
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    Thanks for sharing!

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