Title: Create custom posts with Gutenberg
Last modified: May 18, 2021

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# Create custom posts with Gutenberg

 *  [tastymouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tastymouse/)
 * (@tastymouse)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-custom-posts-with-gutenberg/)
 * It seems a obvious idea but I can’t find a solution yet: Create custom posts 
   with Gutenberg.
    What I mean is, one creates a post (or page) with Gutenberg 
   blocks for different kinds of objects and save this as a post-type (or template?).
   Than one can use this lay-out for new posts.
 * Is this really not possible yet or am I missing something?

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 *  [Mateo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mateico/)
 * (@mateico)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-custom-posts-with-gutenberg/#post-14435774)
 * Hi [@tastymouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tastymouse/)!!
    It is possible
   to create a kind of “block template” using reusable blocks. Follow the steps 
   below:
    1. Select a block.
    2. Click on the three dots that appear in the toolbar.
    3. Click on Add to Reusable blocks.
    4. Give it a name.
    5. Click Publish and then Save.
 * You can also add any blocks you want to a reusable block, but there is no a menu
   option in the dashboard called “Reusable Blocks”. To manage them you can install
   [this plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/reusable-blocks-admin-menu-option/)
   to add a menu option or in the block searching (when you are editing a page or
   a post) go to reusable blocks and click on manage reusable blocks. Additionally
   [this video](https://youtu.be/ZSv8Zxa4Pyk) explain you how to create and manage
   them.
 * Let me know if it works for you,
 * Regards!!
    -  This reply was modified 5 years ago by [Mateo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mateico/).
 *  Thread Starter [tastymouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tastymouse/)
 * (@tastymouse)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-custom-posts-with-gutenberg/#post-14437296)
 * Hi Mateo,
 * Nice idea but it won’t work. When I place a reusable block in a page and change
   the content all reusable blocks get the new content. So all other pages with 
   this block are changed.
    It would work if we can undo the reusability of a reusable
   block once it is set into a page. This actually WAS an option, called Convert
   to Regular block, but that seems to be removed. I did some searching and found
   it Convert to Regular block doesn’t work when you use no original Gutenberg block,
   which I did, but when I created a new reusable block with only Gutenberg blocks
   in it I still can’t convert it to a regular block. Do you know if there is a 
   way to get this back?
 * Regards, Tom
 *  Thread Starter [tastymouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tastymouse/)
 * (@tastymouse)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-custom-posts-with-gutenberg/#post-14437344)
 * It looks like the new Gutenberg Patterns is what one can use for not-linked reusable
   block. It is still in development, but there is a plugin that converts reusable
   blocks into patterns [https://wordpress.org/plugins/reusable-blocks-extended/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/reusable-blocks-extended/)
   
   I’ll check that out later.

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