Back to the Custom Blocks Part 1: Creating Custom Blocks Tutorial
welcome in this video we're going to
review how to create custom blocks now
custom box pretty cool because they
allow you to create a piece of content
and then reference to that piece of
content in other content areas so for
example on the landing page here if I
scroll down to the bottom I've got a
footer that is utilizing rows and cards
and the way I did that was essentially
by using a custom block now you can use
custom blocks within the footer section
you can use them for your Jumbotron
and you can also refer to them in block
cards and tab cards now to be able to
view the custom blocks that you have if
you hover over structure and block
layout you can click on this guy here
custom block library this will show you
all of the custom blocks that have been
created on your site and this is also
going to be the place where you go back
to if you need to edit an existing
custom block or maybe delete it now if
you need to create a brand new custom
block you can either click this blue
button here or again if you hover over
structure and block layout you can
choose add custom block now you're gonna
be prompted to choose what type of
custom block you want to create we've
got four choices here basic block allows
you to create a block that simply just
had a title few of them in a body filled
with the WYSIWYG and so you can add
content using the WYSIWYG into the body
field kind of like a basic card works
roblox allow you to utilize rows and
cards kind of like what we had going
with the footer of the demo site
simple maps allows you to essentially
display a map within a block and then
views reference block allows you to
reference views for articles blogs news
posts things like that so let's go ahead
and try creating a roadblock this is
probably going to be one that you you'll
use a lot if you end up using custom
blocks the first thing you'll need to do
is give your block a description so
let's go ahead and do that real quick
this description is not going to display
wherever you put your block so just keep
that in mind this is simply for me to be
able to reference back to this block
when I'm looking through my custom block
library
okay and now I'm just gonna build it out
like I would with any landing page or a
basic page which is I'm gonna just start
adding my rows and cards
so let's get started here and just do
something real quick or add to uneven
columns let's say do a basic card
title add something to the body
maybe we'll even add a cool button why
not
I'll make it a little bit bigger add a
link to it
you
like okay and let's do one more just for
fun let's go ahead and let's add
an image card
you know pick my image real quick
text
and I think that's probably good
so I'll click Save
and I'll get this confirmation saying
that my roadblock has been created and I
can confirm this by going to structure
block layout and viewing my custom block
library and there it is there's my
custom block so that's all we're going
to do for this video we walk through how
to view the custom block library and how
to create a custom block you can check
out our companion video to this one
where we'll walk through how to utilize
the blocks that you've created