search

WordPress / gutenberg

The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/
Other
10.54k stars 4.21k forks source link

Content-specific templates: Offer a way to remap the associated content #48645

Open jameskoster opened 1 year ago

jameskoster commented 1 year ago

After creating a template for a specific entity (e.g. Category: Recipes, Page: About, Post: Hello World), there's no way to change that associated entity afterwards. If you want to do this then you need to copy the blocks in the original template before deleting it, then create a new template and paste those blocks in... obviously this is unnecessarily tedious.

It's also problematic if the original entity is deleted – you're left with an orphaned template that does nothing. It would be nice if you could easily repurpose that template.

Such an affordance may even house related actions, for example cloning; "I want to apply the Category: Recipes template to my Ingredients category as well".

The Inspector and Details panel in the dark sidebar seem like they might be good homes for this, but we should explore options.

youknowriad commented 1 month ago

I think this is a duplicate of #48247

jameskoster commented 1 month ago

Not quite. I think #48247 is about making a $custom template the default for a given post type.

This one is about updating a template like page-$slug to re-assign which page it applies to.

youknowriad commented 1 month ago

For me it's just the same thing, regardless of whether the root template is "$custom" or "page-$slug". You should be able to change the purpose (slug) of the template entirely. That said, I'm fine with the issue being kept open.