I am new to the latest version of umbraco having previously used it in the xslt days.
What would be the best approach for building pages using “reusable content blocks”. By that, I want to have the content of the block shared between multiple pages.
If for example, I have an empty page type with a placeholder where i can add content items, like “image with text”, “image carousel”, “promo item” etc etc (these items have a backing doc type with different fields, with its own presentation). Editor can add one or more of these in any order they choose. I want to be able to share the content source for these items, so editor can edit the content in one place, and it updates everywhere it was used.
Reusable content “widgets”
Hi All,
I am new to the latest version of umbraco having previously used it in the xslt days.
What would be the best approach for building pages using “reusable content blocks”. By that, I want to have the content of the block shared between multiple pages. If for example, I have an empty page type with a placeholder where i can add content items, like “image with text”, “image carousel”, “promo item” etc etc (these items have a backing doc type with different fields, with its own presentation). Editor can add one or more of these in any order they choose. I want to be able to share the content source for these items, so editor can edit the content in one place, and it updates everywhere it was used.
Thanks Danny
Can anyone help me on this?
Hi Danny,
there's a fancy new Block List Editor in v8, it seems like it would be a good fit:
https://umbraco.com/blog/deep-dive-the-block-list-editor/
Thank you Brendan,
It’s not quite what I’m looking for I don’t think. I just one to drop my chosen “block” onto the page and select its backing data source.
The page adding to will be empty with a placeholder where “blocks” are added.
I’ll download and have a play with the demo however and see how I get on.
One way to approach it might be to have the 'data' held under a folder or settings node and linking to it from the block using the content picker.
Thank you. I think that could work - In fact, it’s exactly how I implement this with Kentico.
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