Create Your Own Block Patterns for Gutenberg / the Block Editor

Block Patterns in Gutenberg are a powerful way to make reusable content templates without having to grab all of the blocks and build them from scratch in the WordPress Block Editor. But currently there isn’t a native no-code way to create patterns. Luckily, creating your own is as simple as copying and pasting some code. Here’s how to do it from start to finish.

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## Links
Get the Code: https://github.com/jcasabona/jc-block-patterns
JSON Encoder: https://jsonformatter.org/json-escape
register_block_pattern: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/register_block_pattern/

## Chapters
00:00 – Intro
01:16 – Why Not Reusable Blocks?
03:11 – Designing the Block Pattern
04:42 – Copying the Block Code
05:05 – Escaping Block Code
05:53 – Plugin Setup
07:16 – Registering the Block Pattern
08:08 – The Block Pattern Definition
09:03 – Pattern Categories
09:47 – Adding our Block Code
10:02 – Testing
11:20 – Reviewing all the Steps
11:53 – Multiple Block Patterns
12:23 – That’s It!

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