Last Updated: September 29, 2021
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Creating WordPress Gutenberg Block Templates

Now you can create a customized Gutenberg block templates in following steps.
1. Registering Gutenberg Blocks
2. Creating a Gutenberg Plugin

Registering Gutenberg Blocks

In the initial step we create custom blocks templates that can be used to build pre-populated blocks. Add the following code to the functions.php.
addaction( 'init', function() { $args = array( 'public' => true, 'label' => 'News', 'showinrest' => true, 'templatelock' => 'all', 'template' => array( array( 'core/paragraph', array( 'placeholder' => 'Breaking News', ) ), array( 'core/image', array( 'align' => 'right', ) ), ), ); registerposttype( 'news', $args ); } );</code>

For adding custom block to this template, use the ‘template’ sub-array.
'template' => array( array( 'core/heading', array( 'level' => '4', 'content' => 'Heading' ) ), array( 'core/paragraph' ), )</code>

Creating a Gutenberg Plugin

It is best to create Gutenberg editor plugin while working with custom templates.

To create a plugin, go to the wp-content/plugins directory and create a new folder. The name of the folder must be the name of the custom Gutenberg template plugin. Here I have named my plugin as Gutenberg Blocks.

Create a file named Gutenberg-blocks.php and add the following code
addaction( 'init', function() { $args = array( 'public' => true, 'label' => 'News', 'showinrest' => true, 'templatelock' => 'all', 'template' => array( array( 'core/paragraph', array( 'placeholder' => 'Breaking News', ) ), array( 'core/image', array( 'align' => 'right', ) ), ), ); registerposttype( 'news', $args ); } );</code>