Blueprints
Start new pages, events, or other content from a preset arrangement of blocks
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 — ready to be customised rather than built 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. A template — defined by your theme — 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 scoped to events doesn't 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, so you can prepare a blueprint without making it available yet.
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, and add the blocks the new content should start with.
Once enabled, the blueprint appears in the picker whenever someone creates a new record of the matching type.
Using a blueprint
When you create a new page, event, or post, the new content form offers a Start from blueprint option. Pick a blueprint and the new record opens with the blueprint's blocks already in place.
Once a blueprint is applied, the new content is independent. Later changes to the blueprint don't affect content already created from it.