How do you deal with repeating editable page 'blocks' in PW?

[mikeuk]

(apologies if this looks too similar to previous topic I created, seems more logical as a new topic)

I'm curious if anyone here is implementing something along the lines of Drupal's block / Joomla's custom (editable) module functionality?

In other words, areas that are editable in the backend, that can be placed on multiple pages without needing to re-enter the content on each page it is used.

I tried to do this using a page as a block, and then field type Page (to get a page within a page), but this led to issues with rendering, and more important this creates an object $page->fieldtypePage which is exceptionally large, so I would prefer to avoid that route.

My guess is those that do it, do it outside of PW with PHP. But the 'blocks' being editable and creatable by a site editor is important so I need to explore this or find a different solution (or tell the client no-can-do).

[kongondo]

3 hours ago, mikeuk said:

apologies if this looks too similar to previous topic I created,

Er, what previous topic? ...cross-referencing would help a bit here. 

[mikeuk]

2 hours ago, kongondo said:

Er, what previous topic? ...cross-referencing would help a bit here. 

Only meant to be polite to forum (and adrian who'd helped with method I then gave up with) - https://processwire.com/talk/topic/15721-displaying-content-of-page-in-page-field-type/. Not really linked.

 

[StanLindsey]

I think the way you were doing it before made sense - using a Page Field Selector. Setup in the page-tree a section called "Components" or "Blocks", make sure that isn't being rendered anywhere, then reference those in a field in your front-end facing pages.