Creating Gutenberg sidebar panels

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November 23, 2019 at 6:24 PM #17090

Przemek
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Is it possible to create Gutenberg sidebar panels for saving post meta like Misha Rudrastyh does? Or do you plan such functionality?
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November 25, 2019 at 10:13 AM #17100

Anh Tran
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Hi, currently it's not available yet. I'll make a note for that and put it on the roadmap.

November 25, 2019 at 3:59 PM #17106

Przemek
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Thank you Anh, there are so few tools that make it easy, that it could be a very valuable feature of your plugin.

December 10, 2019 at 7:07 PM #17470

Monsun
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Can you speed the implementation up?
It is a really important feature, and ACF can do it...

December 10, 2019 at 7:45 PM #17472

Przemek
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Hi, I'm not sure if ACF can do it. Is it documented?
I mean exactly sidebar panels (Gutenberg-based), not just meta boxes aside.

December 10, 2019 at 9:23 PM #17475

Monsun
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Sorry - I was just thinking of meta boxes aside.

It's really annoying when the fields are shown after Gutenberg.
At the moment I have to use ACF instead of MB Custom Fields, to get the field groups shown on the side panel.

Or am I missing something?

December 11, 2019 at 11:24 AM #17480

Anh Tran
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Hi,

Regarding the meta boxes aside, it's already supported by MB Blocks. All you need to do is set the 'context' => 'side' for the block. Here is the docs for that:

https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/mb-blocks/#context

If you use Meta Box Builder to create blocks, there's an option to set it as well:

https://prnt.sc/q94hge

December 11, 2019 at 5:30 PM #17485

Monsun
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This is not in relation to blocks but posts.

I have a custom post type with custom fields. But when your in the Gutenberg editor, the custom fields ar shown after the Gutenberg editor, instead of the side panel.

In Meta Box Builder the option does not exist, when you select post instead of block.

December 11, 2019 at 8:08 PM #17488

Anh Tran
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Hi,

This topic is about blocks, so I thought you're talking about it.

What you want is moving the meta boxes to the sidebar. That can be done with the same parameter 'context' => 'side' for meta boxes. See this docs.

Previously, Gutenberg moves all the meta boxes to the "after content" position, which is what you're seeing. It probably changed its behavior to accept side context. I've updated the Builder to reflect the change, so you can see the option within the Builder.
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