Use Gutenberg to create an HTML template

[chvillanuevap]

Hi there!

I'm building a custom newsletter plugin for my business. I would like to have an HTML template editor included in it. Currently, I have a metabox with a textarea input where the user can enter his or her HTML code for the template. I thought it would be more user-friendly to have a drag-and-drop interface. I have seen that a lot of plugins achieve this with third-party libraries. However, I was wondering if it would be possible to achieve something like this with Gutenberg.

I read issues #13142 and #13088, but I didn't find any documentation in the handbook on how to achieve this. I was hoping you could point in the right direction.

Thanks!

Hernan

[noisysocks]

Hey @chvillanuevap!

The work being done in #13088 is indeed intended to make it easier to re-use the Gutenberg block editor for more purposes than simple post and page editing.

This work is in very early stages and so there is no documentation for the block editor module at this time. There is a follow-up task to add documentation in #14043, so watch this space!