Do I use blocks or is there another way?

Taun

last month

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  Kyr

  last month

  I like to think of blocks as a kind of limited page-builder.

  
  
  

  Each block has it's own content model, and you simply render the blocks in order in your chosen location.

  
  
  

  For your use-case I would assume that you have a collection of "Portfolio Items".

  
  
  

  I'd create a block with a field that allows the selection of one or more portfolio items using the relationship field type (

  https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/relationship

  ). When rendering this block you qill fetch the selected portfolio items as needed.

  
  
  

  For the hero a "Hero banner" block with fields for title, text, image, CTA, etc.

  
  
  

  Then, on your "homepage" you have a "Blocks" field that allows the selection of these blocks and just render them in your front-end in the order they are added to the homepage item.

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  Taun

  last month

  Great, thanks a lot for that thorough reply @Kyr . I see Payload has a 'renderBlog' component within their website, when I get to it I'll take a look and see what approach they're using for blog posts.. I assume it's a similar logic as rendering blocks.

  
  

  
  

  @Kyr - do you have any ideas of how I can solve this error?:

  
  
  https://discord.com/channels/967097582721572934/1098599462001184889
  
  

  I renamed the Component and Config files within the block folder, that shouldn't matter right?

  
  

  
  

  https://github.com/taunhealy/WhitePolaroids1/blob/master/blocks/PortfolioHero/PortfolioHero_Config.ts