Blocks field: Global/reusable blocks#132

Developing sites for our clients often results in reusing content blocks mixed with individual page content - which we achieve with some workarounds via blocks as pages, not that “clean” and failsafe that i’d like to have it done.

So we would really appreciate some kind of reusable or global blocks, e.g. administrated on the “site”.

I guess this has been achieved with the 3.5 release and the introduction of custom blocks, right?

https://getkirby.com/docs/reference/panel/fields/blocks#custom-block-types__global-block-types

I think this is not about block types but prepared global content that you can insert in different places.

Custom blocks can also contain content. So custom blocks could also be used to embed content in many places, right? Currently, there needs to be a “dummy field”, but there’s another suggestion in Nolt for “field-less” blocks, which would be a good idea in this use case.

We also have the use case sometimes and make do with putting content into the $site and then simply retrieving it with the appropriate block in combination with a snippet. Actually works quite well. I think such “global blocks” could bring some trouble and confusion into the matter. I think Anonymous means the global “layouts” that are integrated in some pagebuilders in other CMS’s.