# Feature Blocks

* Reusable, customisable widgets that can contain text, images and/or video
* Created and maintained in one place and then reused in different places around your site
* Currently feature block layouts can be used in: store homepage, content homepage, individual product pages, order thank you page, customer emails

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/embed/7eY7PFam7fY>" %}

Feature blocks allow you to create and maintain your content in a single place and then reuse that content in lots of different “slots” around your sites and emails. There are several advantages to your approach:

* Centralising all your resoluble content in one place makes it easy to find what you are looking for when you need to make an edit
* Creating and then reusing blocks means that updates only need to be made in a single place and that change will be reflected wherever block is used

We’re constantly leveraging this “blocks and slots” architecture to add more and more visual customisation options to Pakk sites, but in a way that is easy to maintain and hard to mess up.

![Blocks and Slots Architecture](https://pakk-tenant-images.imgix.net/pakk/2021/7/Feature-Blocks-Spotlight-Infogrpaphic.png?w=600)

### Types of Feature Blocks <a href="#types-of-feature-blocks" id="types-of-feature-blocks"></a>

There are currently several different types go block, with more being added all the time:

* Custom block: a versatile block where you can add any combination of a title, subtitle, body content, call-to-action button, background colour or background image. This block alone allows for many creative and colourful combinations to be easily created.
* Video block: a block that is dedicated entirely to an embedded video, either from YouTube or Vimeo
* Feed post block (Individual): a single, featured post from your feed
* Feed post block (gallery): multiple posts from your feed, either manually selected or by hashtag matching
* iFrame block: add all manner of embeddable content to your site via iFrames

### Slots <a href="#slots" id="slots"></a>

Slots are areas in which feature blocks can be placed. Each slot permits one of the following options:

* A single, selected feature block
* Multiple feature blocks laid out in a single row
* A complete “feature-block” layout with multiple rows and any number of blocks per row

Currently, you’ll find feature block slots in the following places:

* On the main store homepage
* On the content/blog homepage
* At the bottom of product detail pages
* Under the content on static “Pages”
* Under the content on web forms
* In web-form autoresponder emails
* On the post-order “thank-you” page
* In all the webstore confirmation emails

### Resources <a href="#resources" id="resources"></a>

#### Colour Palette Generator <a href="#colour-palette-generator" id="colour-palette-generator"></a>

<https://coolors.co/>

#### Unicode and Emojis <a href="#unicode-and-emojis" id="unicode-and-emojis"></a>

<https://unicode-table.com/>

#### Markdown Cheatsheet <a href="#markdown-cheatsheet" id="markdown-cheatsheet"></a>

<https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/>


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