Plötner Dev Blocks

WordPress 7.0 PHP-only (autoRegister) blocks and their backing custom post types for the Plötner Dev site. Extracted from the ploetner-dev-child theme so the content survives theme switches.

Requirements

• WordPress 7.0+ (uses supports.autoRegister for PHP-only block registration)
• PHP 8.1+

What it provides

Blocks (category “Ploetner.dev”)

All blocks render server-side via do_blocks() of canonical block markup, and the WP 7.0 editor auto-generates Inspector Controls from each block's declared attributes. No build step / JavaScript.

Custom post types

pd_expertise, pd_project, pd_talk, pd_community — all non-public (no archive, not publicly queryable, show_ui for editing). Per-type meta (card label, tech tags, link, year, event) is edited via a classic “Details” meta box.

Styling dependency

The blocks output the site's design-system CSS classes (ploetner-card, ploetner-section-label, ploetner-expertise-grid, ploetner-speaking-row, ploetner-card-desc) and rely on theme.json presets (colors accent / base-card / border / text-muted, spacing presets, the mono font family). Those live in the ploetner-dev-child theme. The plugin supplies structure and data; the theme supplies presentation. To use these blocks in another theme, provide equivalent presets and class styles.

Seeding sample content

The sample content is seeded automatically on plugin activation — there is nothing to run by hand for a fresh install. Seeding is idempotent (items whose slug already exists are skipped) and version-aware: a pd_blocks_seed_version option records what has been written, and a future plugin version that adds new sample items seeds them on the next admin load. The data lives in one place, src/Seeder.php.

The WP-CLI seeders remain available for re-seeding or CI. Each is a thin wrapper over Seeder and runs only its own post type:

wp eval-file wp-content/plugins/ploetner-dev-blocks/tools/seed-expertise.php
wp eval-file wp-content/plugins/ploetner-dev-blocks/tools/seed-open-source.php
wp eval-file wp-content/plugins/ploetner-dev-blocks/tools/seed-speaking.php
wp eval-file wp-content/plugins/ploetner-dev-blocks/tools/seed-community.php