WordPress Patterns Are About to Get WAY More Powerful! (Pattern Overrides Tutorial)

[@kylevandeusen]

Is it on Core to allow 3rd party blocks to take advantage of this? Or on the 3rd party vendors to add support? I assumed it was the latter... and if that's true, let's go hound Tom!

[@Permaslug]

I honestly have no idea! Let's hound him either way

[@jamiewp]

@@Permaslug at the moment it's just image, heading, and para I believe (as they roll out they'll increase).

[@kylevandeusen]

@@Permaslug I've got a flaming pitchfork ready!

[@ClaudiuPopa]

It would be awesome this override feature to be supported in GB Pro. Joining the strike! :))

[@adamwrightdesign]

Man, very cool! Fingers crossed it gets expanded into third party blocks! **Cough** GB **Cough**

[@Hanneslsm]

Very well presented! I agree, it's is an amazing feature and makes creating well designed websites so much easier.

[@Permaslug]

Totally agree! Here’s to hoping it makes its way into WordPress core with support for 3rd party blocks

[@TravisKelleher]

If using wordpress like a CMS, is there a way to preload a set of patterns to a content type? I have a website where I need to serialize what things look like and where they appear. I'm used to doing it the old way with advanced custom fields and custom post types using classic editor. I'm trying my hardest to come around to this Gutenberg thing, and now I see that we have patterns and now overrides. I have hundreds of pages where the content is in meta fields, If I started using Gutenberg wouldn't all the information be entered into the content area? How can you parse out special queries based on whether a meta field is filled out or not. Am I correct in thinking that Gutenberg really isn't for CMS use, it's more for the general blog? Any information is greatly appreciated.

[@visualmodo]

Really good content!!!

[@BrianCoords]

Great overview. I think the 'bold' doesn't carry over because it's bolding the inner text itself, but if you use the 'Appearance' in the typography settings, you can change the font for the entire block and that would be synced.

[@Permaslug]

Ahh, good catch. It's impressive how well it already works, especially when considering I tossed in GenerateBlocks elements into the pattern too

[@goodchoices5125]

Thank you for that very comprehensive explanation and demo. Very cool! Another question: I find it super annoying to have different default settings for typography and spacing between GB, GP and core blocks. How do you deal with that?

[@Permaslug]

That is frustrating, for sure. GeneratePress as my theme handles a lot of default spacing and styles, but now with GenerateBlocks having css classes aka global styles built in, it’s way easier to manage spacing and styling consistently across your site. Especially when you combine those global styles with patterns