Back to the Custom Blocks Part 2: Using Custom Blocks Tutorial
welcome in this video we're going to
walk through how to use custom blocks
that you've created now this is a
companion video to the creating custom
blocks video so you if you haven't
checked that out yet I recommend
checking that out first basically once
you've created your custom block you can
then reference that custom block in
different parts of your site a couple of
those places is on a landing page so you
can show your custom block in the
jumbotron area and also you can show it
in the footer section let's go ahead and
walk through how to do that real quick
if I hover over content I'm going to go
to another landing page that I have
and let's say that on this particular
landing page I want to add a Jumbotron
let's go ahead and edit the landing page
and under Jumbotron we're going to
choose show alternate Jumbotron and then
here is where I get to choose one of the
blocks that I've created so in this case
I created the awesome block just a
little bit ago I'll choose that click
Save
and then the block that I created shows
up right here and you can see it's fully
functional
likewise I can add the same thing to the
footer so if I edit the landing page
again
go to display and under footer choose
show alternate footer again I can choose
from the various blocks that I've
created and so I can choose my awesome
block click Save
and there it is
now you can also use custom blocks when
you're using rows and cards for a page
or a landing page and if you utilize
block cards or tap cards you can
reference a custom block as well so
let's go ahead and walk through that
real quick well go ahead and just create
a basic page
give it a quick title
and we'll add a row
and once we get to adding cards if you
click this drop-down arrow you'll have a
choice for a block card so we click that
guy kind of the same thing we just
choose from this drop-down menu a a
custom block that's already been created
and we just reference that here's one
other block that I created this kimchi
block so I'll choose that you get some
additional options of adding color if
you want to and the other block type
that you can use is called tabs and so
with tabs you give your tab title
and then in the body section you can
choose either basic card a block or
review so let's go ahead and choose to
reference a block in this case maybe I
want that kimchi one again I'll choose
that and for the heck of it how about we
add another tab section
and let's reference a news view
the body you
let's say I want to reference the recent
articles okay
we'll go ahead and publish this
and here we are so I've got my page here
is the custom block that I'm displaying
through the block card and the kind of
you know unique thing about this is that
I'm using one card space but within this
one card is actually two rows so when I
created this custom block I have two
rows the top row is for the title the
second rows for the image and then
similarly through the the tabs card I'm
referencing the same block clicking the
tab and of course based on the
functionality of tabs you can have these
tabs up here at the top that reference
different pieces of content so one of
those can be a custom block so that's
everything we're going to cover in this
video basically you can use your custom
blocks and display them either in the
jumbotron area the footer area or you
can utilize block cards or tab cards and
display your custom blocks there