How to build reusable component blocks in WordPress
How to build reusable component blocks in WordPress
For most wordpress projects, manually duplicating the same design blocks page after page can lead to inefficiency and errors in updating content. To address this, reusable component blocks can be created With Elementor templates and Advanced Custom Fields(ACF).
Sections can be made once and stored as templates in Elementor. These templates can then be added across the site through shortcodes or the Template widget in Elementor. Changes to the stored template will be applied automatically across all pages where it’s being used.
For dynamic and organized content such as FAQs, team members, or testimonials, AfC fields are merged With custom post types. The content managers then update information directly within the WordPress admin panel, and the frontend design imports that information via Elementor’s dynamic content feature.
To ensure that reusing the same blocks doesn’t impact SEO, the Yoast SEO plugin can be used to scan each page’s content individually. During reusable content, Yoast provides page-level suggestions for Keywords, readability, and metadata. This way, when layout and content blocks are centralized for convenience, each page still has unique, optimized SEO content for good search visibility.
This approach improves consistency, scalability, and performance without degrading your current SEO techniques.
Using the Gutenberg block editor, you can create reusable component blocks in WordPress by creating a block or collection of blocks and then saving them as reusable blocks that you can update globally and insert anywhere. As an alternative, you can design a section and save it as a template or global widget to be used throughout your website if you use a page builder like Elementor. For more complex requirements, developers can use tools like Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) to register blocks with PHP and render them using templates, enabling dynamic content and simple reuse. As your website expands, clarity and efficiency can be preserved by consistently naming and arranging your blocks or templates.
Excellent observation! One clever method to preserve consistency and save time when using Elementor and ACF is to reuse component blocks. I appreciate how you also used Yoast to highlight the SEO aspect, which many people ignore. Large site management is undoubtedly more effective with this method.