Multi-content blocks in pages

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Is it possible to add multiple blocks of content to single pages (.md) without resorting to using modules?

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You mean you want to add some more text editor?
If so, that is totally doable, using blueprints.

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I basically need an arbitrary number of additional content blocks in Markdown, in the same page. So right now, the header is identified by two --- lines followed by the content (referenced as page.content) which is written in Markdown. But I need to add any number of additional, uniquely identifiable content blocks that I can reference in the template…

So, that might look like this:

{{ page.content }}

{{ page.content_2 }}

{{ page.content_3 }}

And so on and so forth…

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Then, you have to provide your own blueprint.
If you want to add multiple editor (what you called “content block”) for the template article.html.twig then you have to create a file under user/themes/yourtheme/blueprints/ and name it article.yaml

Inside, you will add this:

title: Article
'@extends':
    type: default
    context: blueprints://pages

form:
  fields:
    tabs:
      fields:
        content:
          fields:
            header.content_2:
              type: editor
              ordering@: 2
              label: Second editor
            header.content_3:
              type: editor
              ordering@: 3
              label: Third editor

Then in your template article.html.twig you can use

{{ page.content }}
{{ page.header.content_2|markdown }}
{{ page.header.content_3|markdown }}
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Awesome, thanks!

Though, this requires me to set up a fixed number of content blocks. Would it be possible to add the blocks dynamically? Like not having a fixed number of editors/blocks but rather have the author choose the number of blocks?

I realize that this is almost certainly bordering modular content…

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Sure, here is an example:

title: Article
'@extends':
    type: default
    context: blueprints://pages

form:
  fields:
    tabs:
      fields:
        content:
          fields:
            header.editorlist:
              type: list
              label: Add a block of text
              btnLabel: Add block
              controls: both
              fields:
                .block:
                  type: editor
                  label: Text block

Then you can access it with

{% for editor in page.header.editorlist %}
  {{ editor.block|markdown }}
{% endfor %}
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7

Very nice!

The GUI seems to bug out when doing this, though. Adding a block is easy enough, but reloading the page after adding content fixes the editor into a non-expandable box.

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Expanding All/Collapse All doesn’t work…

8

yes, list field is special and you might find some bugs with some fields inside a list field.

Consider using instead a texarea field type instead of editor if possible.

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textarea suffers the same fate… I tried adding collapsed: false to the blueprint to no avail.

Perhaps this is bug report worthy on GitHub?

EDIT - Issue reported: https://github.com/getgrav/grav/issues/1919

10

I think you can’t see a difference because the collapsed state of list elements will continue to show the first field. As you only have a single field, it will continue to show the editor when list is collapsed or expanded.

If you add another field, it should solve your problem

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11

Yes, thanks. That did the trick.

One last question: Is it possible to remove the default content editor?

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Sure, here is how you do it:

title: Article
'@extends':
    type: default
    context: blueprints://pages

form:
  fields:
    tabs:
      fields:
        content:
          fields:
            content:
              unset@: true
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13

Dude, you’ve been a lifesaver. Very much appreciated!

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Cool thanks :grinning: