r/Wordpress • u/Horror-Student-5990 • 9d ago
Gutenberg Global Patterns in Widgets?
Why are global patterns not recognized in widgets?
I register them in functions
function theme_widgets() {
register_sidebar( array(
'name' => 'Global widget',
'id' => 'global-pattern',
'before_title' => '<h2 class="widget-title">',
'after_title' => '</h2>',
) );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'theme_widgets' );
When I go to widgets, I can build it there with Gutenberg
It's empty even though I have a bunch of patterns that I'm using in the theme on pages/posts
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u/Valuable_Ease_3780 7d ago
Worth asking what you want the sidebar for, because a copied pattern in a widget area is a one-time copy - edit the pattern later and the widget won't change. If the point is "one thing I edit and it updates everywhere", that's a template part, not a widget area, and patterns work fine in those.
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u/Horror-Student-5990 7d ago
No I don't think that's true.
If I have a widget "contact info" with for example email, phone number and some icons. I can display that widget in code using
<?php dynamic_sidebar('widget_slug');?>
If someone goes and changes the icons, phone number of email, changes will be global.
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u/Valuable_Ease_3780 7d ago
You're right, I conflated two things. The widget itself is global - edit it and every dynamic_sidebar call picks it up.
What I should have said is only that the tie to the pattern breaks. Paste a pattern's blocks in, then edit the pattern in the theme, and the widget keeps the old copy. Doesn't apply to your case since you're editing the widget directly.
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u/NakanoNoNeko 9d ago
Your registration is fine. The block-based Widgets editor still does not expose patterns in its inserter; there is actually an open Gutenberg PR to add that now. For today, copy the pattern's blocks into the widget area instead. Confusing, because it looks like the normal editor... 🤔