One column blocks

Hi,,
a bit of a hacky way would be to simply add this style in the Customizers Additional CSS section.

.has-1-columns .wp-block-column {
    flex-basis: 100%;
}

But this fixes the problem only in the frontend. It would still display 50% in the backend.

But it might give you a starting point.

That’s a start but I won’t get clients or cohorts on board and the working space is something like 400 to 500 px wide.

My purpose is to group a variety of block together to manage in one container. Then I would be able to duplicate a single block with all that’s constructed within it. This is very handy for a consistent structure of headings, background, colors, indents… you name it. So for a list of events, a directory, a toc, index…. so many applications which before I would manage inside the tinyMCE with a much easier select/copy/paste routine.

Gutenberg had some potential fly out the window when the single column went to a forced 50%. Could they not just put that back to the way it was? What’s the purpose?

• This reply was modified 6 years ago by stinkykong.

Maybe columns is not the right block for this purpose.

I see two other possibilities, you might want to use. It is possible to select more than one block. When you are in a block and you press Ctrl + Cursor down. Once you have selected them, you can go to the “More options”-Button (the one with the three dots in the left top corner of the blocks)

1. option: You can duplicate the blocks.
2. option: You can make one reuseable block out of those single blocks.

Maybe this suites your needs better than using the columns block.

I don’t mean to be argumentative but I’ve tried these and I believe all options (although maybe I missed something).

Multi-selecting is not easy. It’s often hard to see what you have selected. Selected blocks should be and often are highlighted but not always are when they are indeed selected. Also multi-selecting requires too much thought and that’s a UX shortcoming. If you have a lot of blocks to select, copy, past, then re-edit, it’s just too much to ask the user.

Reusable blocks are not changeable without changing the instances site-wide. So that is not an option.

So… Columns DID WORK and DON’T NOW. And from what I can see, there is not a substitute.

SO I’M ASKING, can we get the single column at 100% width in both the editor and public view? Can we?

Same for me. I’m looking for a block with one column, even in the back. I can put many things in it and make my own grid with custom class and CSS.

I found a plugin “Atomic Blocks” that adds a number of blocks, one being a container that does what the single column block used to do for me. Hope that helps.

Hello @stinkykong
Thanks a lot for your link. That perfect. Cheers

@stinkykong I try Atomic Blocks. I works but the HTML is like a Page Builder ?? very complicate.
The thing I love with the native Column Block is the very clean HTML.

@stinkykong Although you seem to have resolved it using Atomic Blocks, I was facing the same problem and wanted to do it using the Gutenberg editor only. So I figured out a ‘hack’ that worked for me on both front-end and back-end. My requirements were slightly different in that I needed to wrap a couple of blocks in a single column so that I could make all those blocks have the same background colour and appear as a different section on the page.

Insert a block of “custom HTML” before your “section” (ie, before your collection of blocks that you want to put in one column) and put an opening div in it like so:

<div class="your-custom-class">

If you’ve not guessed it already, insert another custom HTML block after your “section” and put a closing div tag in it:

</div>

Now you can add any CSS to that custom class you added through the custom CSS option in Customise view, and voila you have a section of blocks!

It’s a joke that there isn’t a basic container block as a part of Gutenberg. I’m just… I don’t understand how a project this big is this bad. Surely you guys see all the dire, ridiculous, absurd maintainability issues with ALL of the suggested solutions here.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by whywaitwebs.

Hello, Gents. We got an unresolved issue about the number of columns that appear when viewing your website on a mobile device. The solution proposed wasn’t really helpful. Any help from anyone will be highly appreciated. Here’s a link to the topic https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/2-column-product-view-on-mobile/#post-11546457

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by larrypop.

In Version WP 5.1. I could use Column-Block with one Column as a Container with fullsize.
In Version WP 5.2. can not choose a Column Count smaller than two.
Is that realy true?

@montviso, yes that is true except for the WP 5.1 part. I don’t remember the version where the columns block could be set to 1 and work fine. Certainly it worked prior to 5.0 and I believe it still worked as a single column in 5.0.1 but I don’t remember when it stopped. It doesn’t work at all now, not even lowering the number of columns from the default 2 to 1. That was WP’s fix. Not much to leave me thankful for and certainly no notice of that here.

I feel like an orphan. Anyone else?

P.S. I will add that the Atomic Blocks suggestion I offered still is quite difficult to manage. It is nearly impossible to select the container block and when you try to move it up or down, it usually moves the first child block only. I usually end up switching to HTML view for the page/post, and use the Atomic Blocks opening and closing tags as a guide to cut/paste into place.

An example of a nightmare is as follows: Client wants list of people or businesses with names(bold), addresses(indented), phone numbers(linked), etc. Later client wants these organized from alphanumeric, to by-zip-code. YOWZA! What a scramble.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by stinkykong.

Thanks for your replay, stinkykong.

I build a Whole customer Website with this function, befor I never thougt, this could be disabled.
In the moment the website is waiting to be filled with content bei the customer.
I am very afraid, that the whole website is corrupt, if i do Update to 5.2.

At the moment I try for an other Website a solution with group Block, which is new in Gutenberg Plugin. I get the tipp in a facebook group.

I tried it out, it makes the same, like my 1-column-Workaround.
But I am not secure, wether ist will function in former versions with core?
I Hope so…

I am very angry about this…

This is absurd. I just want to add a container that I can then apply the .alignwide class to, but there’s no longer an option to add a block that’s a single column and there are no other container blocks to speak of. I’m forced to use a custom HTML block and build a container div in there, which is fine for me but not the people who will be managing this site.

This would be a massive oversight if it was missing, but to actually remove the functionality?

Edit: Also – I can’t tab to indent code in the custom HTML block, yet this has worked fine for years in the customizer. Who built this thing?

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by noddemix. Reason: Irritated by another missing feature