Post Formats are a somewhat neglected feature in WordPress. How neglected? Well as I discovered, there isn’t a block for it in Full Site Editing So I decided to build it and thankfully it is super easy. The @wordpress/create-block package got the majority of my scaffold for me in minutes, after that it just a little bit of JavaScript and a little bit of PHP to power my new plugin.
// Block Registration Function
import { registerBlockVariation } from '@wordpress/blocks';
// Internationalization
import { __ } from '@wordpress/i18n';
// Icon
import { postCategories as icon } from '@wordpress/icons';
// https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/trunk/packages/block-library/src/post-terms/variations.js
const variation = {
name: 'post_format',
title: __('Post Format'),
description: __("Display a post's format"),
icon,
isDefault: true,
attributes: { term: 'post_format' },
isActive: (blockAttributes) => blockAttributes.term === 'post_format',
};
registerBlockVariation( 'core/post-terms', variation );
Block Variations make it so that I don’t need to build a block from scratch, and the core/post-terms block is already designed for this. The Post Tags and Category blocks are both variations on the post terms block.
On the server side, I just needed to register my block and make sure that post formats are always available for the Rest API.
/**
* Register our block
*
* The block type we register is actually a variant, but this allows it to show up as a "block" plugin.
*/
function jorbin_post_format_block_block_init() {
register_block_type( __DIR__ );
}
add_action( 'init', 'jorbin_post_format_block_block_init' );
/**
* Make the post formats avilable in the REST API
*/
function jorbin_post_format_block_taxonomy_args( $args, $taxonomy_name ) {
if ( 'post_format' === $taxonomy_name ) {
$args['show_in_rest'] = true;
}
return $args;
}
add_filter( 'register_taxonomy_args', 'jorbin_post_format_block_taxonomy_args', 10, 2 );
This is my first new plugin since BRAD and my first ever block-based plugin. If you also love Post Formats, give it a try!
You can download the plugin from the WordPress Plugin Repository. Additionally, pull requests and bug reports are welcome to https://github.com/aaronjorbin/post-format-block, but I will likely consider this complete software and don’t intend to add any new features.
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