Add setting to disable block template for events and venues

[mauteri]

Currently events and venues start out with blocks preset to make things easier. We need a checkbox in GatherPress settings to disable this so people can use FSE templates to add their blocks.

[carstingaxion]

I would suggest following WordPress‘ decisions, not options philosophy and not adding a setting for this (for now).

If a user is disabling the built-in template, she would have to start with a blank canvas, because we do not have any core UI available yet, wether to re-set this template definition nor to choose some patterns as starter-content. That‘s why I linked the Gutenberg issue over here.

I could easily imagine a add-on plugin to filter the register_post_type() arguments to unset template in a first step. And second, provide some patterns in addition, using the gatherpress-core blocks.

[mauteri]

@carstingaxion thanks for this. This is good feedback.

I'll hold off on this ticket for now. I do think this will come up soon that the default blocks and the order they appear will not be ideal for some folks (especially those using a FSE theme that want to add GP blocks to a site template).

I too could also see this as a companion plugin for GP to manipulate the templates as you stated. I'm not sure the right answer and maybe something out of core (like the ticket you linked too) will provide the solution.

[carstingaxion]

For the coming WordPress 6.7 release, GatherPress is now able to & should have prepared FSE templates for its post types:

https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/08/29/registering-block-templates-via-plugins-in-wordpress-6-7/