Content Blocks (Custom Post Widget)

Of course you can always use the default text widget, but if you prefer to use the WYSIWYG editor or if you have multiple editors and you don’t want to give them administrator rights, it is recommended to use this plugin.

It is recommended to install the Widget Logic plugin, this will give you complete flexibility on widget placement.

This plugin has built-in support for the featured image functionality on the edit screen. Note that featured image will not be resized, so you will have to make sure it is the right size when uploading or restrict the image size via the stylesheet.

If your social media sharing plugin adds buttons to the widget areas you could check the ‘Do not apply content filters’ checkbox. Note that when this is done, WordPress will also stop adding paragraph tags to your text, so use this setting with caution. It is much better to ask the developer of the social media sharing buttons plugin to correctly use the content filters (see http://pippinsplugins.com/playing-nice-with-the-content-filter/ for more information on this). If you are embedding your content block with the shortcode, add the following: suppress_content_filters="yes"

Currently the shortcode function only outputs the post content and title of the content block, future support for displaying the attached featured image is being considered.

Yes, you can create your own template for the content blocks, you can do so by adding a file named custom-post-widget.php to your theme folder. More information about this can be found in this support topic

In these Gists you can find examples of templates for shortcodes and for widgets

Please post your feature request on the support forum
These new features are on the to-do list:

• Display the content block featured image when using the shortcode
• Front-end editing of the content blocks
• Visual Composer integration
• Show the shortcode on the “View all Content Blocks” list view

You can create your own widget template and upload this to your theme folder. See this support topic for more information about this feature.

You can make the post type public by adding the following code to your theme’s functions.php file:
function filter_content_block_init() {
$content_block_public = true;
return $content_block_public;
}
add_filter(‘content_block_post_type’,’filter_content_block_init’);

Alternatively you can use this third-party plugin.

Yes, v2.6 now gives you the option to use the content block’s url slug in the shortcode. Use the following syntax for doing this: [content_block slug=my-content-block].
Note that if you ever change the slug of a content block, the embedding no longer works. Therefore I recommend using the post ID instead (which never changes).

By default the shortcode adds a div around the content block with the class content_block. If you like, you can change this class by adding it to the shortcode: [content_block id=198 slug=our-wordpress-plugins class=my-class]

You can use the do_shortcode function for this: echo do_shortcode('[content_block id= ]');

See https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode for more information on this function.

Please create a support topic in the forum: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-post-widget

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