The Block Bindings API Brings Dynamic Data to Blocks
As the block editor continues to evolve its content management capabilities, the lack of support for custom fields has been one of the key roadblocks for users and developers. While custom fields in WordPress are still widely used, in the block editor they’ve been relegated to a drawer at the bottom of the screen, and haven’t been as deeply integrated as many would like. With the coming Block Bindings API, things are about to change in a very good way. What is the Block Bindings API? One of the best ways to explain the Block Bindings API is to start with a plugin like WooCommerce. Imagine you are building your WooCommerce store and you’re designing the homepage of your site with blocks. You’re using a Query Loop to display your most popular products, which means many of the blocks you’ll be reaching for are probably pulling important custom information about your products- product descriptions, images, galleries, add-to-cart buttons, and more. Right now, WooCommerce needs to create and manage individual custom blocks for each of those separate pieces of content. That’s a lot of duplicate code and technological overhead. Plus, as new design tools are added to the block editor, the…
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