Block type naming?

[remcotolsma]

We are working on 3 blocks for Pronamic Events:

• Start Date
• End Date
• Location

Currently i use the following naming:

• pronamic-events/event-start-date
• pronamic-events/event-end-date
• pronamic-events/event-location

Documentation:

• https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/block-api/block-registration/
• https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_block_type/__construct/

The name for a block is a unique string that identifies a block. Names have to be structured as namespace/block-name, where namespace is the name of your plugin or theme.

This results in the following code:

<!-- wp:pronamic-events/event-start-date {"format":"d.m.Y"} /-->

<!-- wp:pronamic-events/event-end-date {"format":"d.m.Y"} /-->

<!-- wp:pronamic-events/event-location /-->

And the following HTML output:

<div class="wp-block-pronamic-events-event-start-date"><time datetime="2022-05-03T00:00:00+02:00">03.05.2022</time></div>

<div class="wp-block-pronamic-events-event-end-date"><time datetime="2022-05-05T00:00:00+02:00">05.05.2022</time></div>

<div class="wp-block-pronamic-events-event-location">Some location</div>

We could also choose for the following shorter naming:

• pronamic-events/start-date
• pronamic-events/end-date
• pronamic-events/location

I think I prefer the longer notation, WordPress also uses post-date and not just date:

<!-- wp:post-date {"format":"F j, Y g:i a"} /-->

@kjtolsma @rvdsteege What do you think?

[rvdsteege]

I'd go with the long format too. The long format makes clear that it is the start date of a single event.