[Resolved] How to control the CPT editor presentation

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[Scott Roberts]

I am attempting to make the shift to Gutenberg with this refresh of my site. The screen shot shows the early development in one of my CPTs. I have added the field group and fields needed for start and end date/time.

I would like to lay out the edit screen shown to look exactly WYSIWIG. For this item I would want to fill out certain meta including the items in "Item Validity" before editing the article. I understand there is an ability to create Gutenberg templates by CPT and it seems this would be what I want to do.

This whole Gutenberg thing is bringing me back from the "fairly-advanced developer" to "newbie" stage of my WP learning, so I realize I'm asking pretty elementary stuff here. I'm not necessarily looking for a step-by-step of how to do this exact process, it'd be better if you can point me to some guides for creating Gutenberg templates and work through with me how to do this using Toolset. I've viewed the CPT Templates documentation video, and it seems like that has all to do with creating a specific front-end look. I'm looking entirely to improve the back-end experience.

Thank you for your help, I hope I have expressed my goal clearly!

[Luo Yang]

Hello,

You can try these:
1) Create a content template for the single my CPTs post:
https://toolset.com/course-lesson/creating-templates-to-display-custom-posts/

2) Add "Fields and Text" Block into above content template, and design it as what you want:
https://toolset.com/block-item/fields-and-text/

The "Fields and Text" works just like the WYSIWIG editor.

[Luo Yang]

And you can switch to classic editor by these:
Dashboard-> Toolset-> Post Types, find and edit "my CPTs", in section "Name and description", here you can choose Classic editor

[Scott Roberts]

I think I've not communicated clearly. I understand how to create custom templates to display my CPTs. I'm looking to control the layout of the editor. Is this possible? In the Classic Editor, I can move things around between the various columns, for example. I'd like the editor to look exactly like the front-end display would look, but have the fields enabled for data entry.

[Luo Yang]

As I mentioned above:
1) In WordPress Blocks editor, you can add a Toolset "Fields and Text" Block, this block works just like WYSIWIG editor, you can setup the HTML codes in it.

2) And you can switch to classic editor by these:
Dashboard-> Toolset-> Post Types, find and edit "my CPTs", in section "Name and description", here you can choose option "Per post", save.

Edit the post again, there will be a button "Use Classic Editor", see my screenshot:Use Classic Editor.JPG, click it, you can switch to classic editor, and setup the HTML codes manually