I'm working on a wordpress theme and want to replace my shortcodes with gutenberg blocks. I'm new to working with blocks but having looked into it a bit I've decided to try and use create-guten-block as that seemed like a good starting point.

The tutorial on github mentions that you should install the blocks to the plugins directory, whereas ideally I want them to be built in to my theme. Is it possible to do it this way or is it necessary to have them in a plugin?

I'm working on a wordpress theme and want to replace my shortcodes with gutenberg blocks. I'm new to working with blocks but having looked into it a bit I've decided to try and use create-guten-block as that seemed like a good starting point.

The tutorial on github mentions that you should install the blocks to the plugins directory, whereas ideally I want them to be built in to my theme. Is it possible to do it this way or is it necessary to have them in a plugin?

• theme-development
• themes
• templates
• visual-editor
• block-editor

• 1 Ideally themes only touch styling of the content and plugins modify or create content. So I guess blocks should belong to plugins. But sure, you can create blocks within a theme. In the end you just need to enqueue a script which then registers the block. – Alvaro Commented Jan 9, 2019 at 20:05

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Creator of create-guten-block here. You should be building Gutenberg blocks via companion plugins. Keep your theme for styles only :) That's the best practice for now.