Gutenberg

I already have a plenty of tutorials on my blog where we created different kind of fields for Gutenberg sidebars, for example an image field, a gallery field, a checklist and even a dropdown with posts.

There is also my Simple Fields plugin for those of you guys who don’t want to mess up with JSX and React and prefer to use simple PHP code snippets instead.

But now let’s talk about creating a repeater field. First things first – a screenshot:

Now so long ago I published a tutorial about creating a custom image control component for plugin sidebars. The very first question in the comments was “How to select multiple files”?

So let’s dive into it now.

First things first let me show you what we are going to create here.

I already have a couple of tutorials about working with metadata in Gutenberg, so you can find a complete guide to it and a separate tutorial about image fields. Now let’s continue to dive into it and discuss types of fields that consist of multiple input elements.

We are not going to dive straight into the repeater fields (let’s do it later) and discuss something more simple, a checklist field for example.

That’s how it is going to look like:

I have a super-detailed tutorial about plugin sidebars on my blog. But there were described only some basic field types like TextControl, TextareaControl and ToggleControl.

What about something much more interesting? I mean when there were no Gutenberg years ago, I already created an image uploader field for WordPress meta boxes or options pages. What about creating a custom ImageControl component for Gutenberg sidebars right now?

I was eager to tell you about Full Site Editing, but I didn’t know where to start. It was just overwhelming. But not so far time ago I find out that the very first WordPress theme – “Kubrick” was rebuild for FSE, so, it is a block theme now.

First of all let me show you guys what WordPress logo do I mean. You can find it in the top left part of the screen.

And here is what we are going to achieve in this tutorial:

As you may notice I used a custom photo of me but you may use an SVG icon if you want.

In this simple tutorial I will show you how to do this: