[Closed] Best practice – Gutenberg, blocks and theme

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[samuelH]

Hi,
I am starting to transform from using pagebilders to now create using gutenberg and blocks. I would appreciate all advices for a future best practice in this matter. I understand from articles I have read that your toolset framework will be optimized for gutenberg in the future - so I have a few newbie questions in this matter:

I need som advanced design functions, like accordians, pop up fields and so on. Do yo have recommendations regarding plug ins to gutenberg to achive this. They should work together with toolset.

Also - What kind of theme would you recommend? I need a theme that support fullwidth pages - including custom post types.

I hope you are able to help me getting started with this transformation, and point me in the best direction for webpages built with toolset and gutenberg 😉

[Nigel]

As a starting point, regarding themes we have integrations with a handful of themes where the theme options (such as full-width pages) can be set when creating templates with Toolset, so it would probably be a good idea to start with one of those: https://toolset.com/documentation/recommended-themes/

Toolset itself offers quite a large range of blocks (best to try it out and see), but it's quite likely that you may want to use 3rd party plugins to enhance the range of blocks available.

We don't have a block to create fancy dividers between sections of a page, for example, and maybe we won't ever add one because there are blocks from other providers you can use such as the beautiful one from stackable blocks: hidden link

You really need to try out the alternatives (assuming it is something missing from Toolset) yourself to see what would be useful to you, but as well as Stackable some of the other main block plugins you might try are Kadence, Atomic Blocks, and Ultimate Add-ons for Gutenberg Blocks, amonst others.

There are a handful of known compatibility issues relating to styling of some blocks being preserved on the front-end when used in templates, but we will work to address those.