Show a region/block with PHP

Hello and happy new year!

You have four options that you can use in php:

do_shortcode(‘[isw-block name=”hallo world”]’);
do_shortcode(‘[isw-block id=”123″]’);

— or —

global $ISWBlocks;
ISWBlocks->render_block_shortcode( array( ‘name’ => ‘hallo world’));

where the ‘name’ => ‘hallo world’ is the post_name or post_title and the output will be translated with WPML if installed

— or —

global $ISWBlocks;
ISWBlocks->render_block_shortcode( array( ‘id’ => 123 ));

where ‘id’ => 123 is the id of the block and the output will be translated with WMPL if installed

— or —

global $ISWBlocks;
ISWBlocks->render_block ( $id )

where $id is the block id and will be rendered without WPML translation

We do not offer a build-in way to render a whole region yet! So you either have to do a custom WPQuery to get all block post types that belong to a specific block region and render them using the above mentioned shortcodes or alternatively use the WPViews plugin or equivalent that creates and displays queries from the backend.

I hope this helps!

Thanks, Happy new year to you too!

I’ll add my custom code for a region then. A region is better, so my theme is not dependent on block ids, if they get deleted, we’ll have trouble.

The idea is to show some content in a column layout and I choose this plugin for this task, do you think this is the best solution to achieve this? I didn’t want to use posts or pages, because like I said, I would be relying on IDs and that’s a bad practice in my opinion.

In our projects, we usually use this plugin in conjunction with WP-Views(a commercial plugin from wp-types.com) in order to achieve what you are after as this gives us maximum flexibility and control over how this content is rendered.

We set up a custom view that selects all blocks for a specific region in WP-Views in a layout that we want to use(list, column, etc) and then insert that view where we want to display it.

Alternatively, you can achieve the same effect with a custom WPQuery in php.

Is there also a possability to render all blocks from a group?

Only using a WPQuery as descripbed above or custom plugin WP-Views or equivalent