Blueprints

A blueprint is a preset starting point for a new piece of content. When you create a page from a blueprint, Basker pre-fills the page with a defined arrangement of blocks. You can then customize the page instead of building it from scratch.

Open Blueprints under Design in Basker. The screen is subtitled Create reusable block layouts your team can start pages from. Changes to a blueprint only affect new pages: existing pages created from this blueprint will not be updated.

Blueprints and templates are different things. Your theme defines a template, which controls how a page looks on the live site. A blueprint controls how a new page starts in the editor. A page can use both.

What a blueprint contains

• A title and description that identify it in the blueprint picker.
• A scope: which content type the blueprint applies to (pages, events, posts, and so on). A blueprint that applies only to events does not appear when you create a page.
• A set of blocks that new content starts with. These can be empty placeholders ("Add your hero image here") or filled-in content you want to copy as a starting point.
• A toggle that shows or hides the blueprint in the picker. Use it to prepare a blueprint before making it available.

Creating a blueprint

Create a blueprint from the Blueprints area of Basker. Choose the content type the blueprint applies to. Give it a title and description. Add the blocks the new content should start with.

Once you enable it, the blueprint appears in the picker whenever someone creates new content of the matching type.

Using a blueprint

When you create a new page, event, or post, the new content form offers a Start from a blueprint picker. This picker appears while the content area is still empty. Pick a blueprint and select Apply Blueprint to copy its blocks into the new content.

Once you apply a blueprint, the new content is independent. Later changes to the blueprint do not affect content already created from it.

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