How can I insert dynamic content and trigger actions?

Hi, this is Sandra from GREYD. Today I’d like to show you two features we have added to several blocks in Gutenberg: the trigger picker and dynamic tags. The trigger picker enables you to trigger different actions on click, for example open a pop-up, link or email window. Let’s have a look at it in the backend and use the group block as an example. Whenever you find this arrow icon in a block, the trigger picker is available. You can then select from various actions: link, back, scroll to, pop-up, email, download, trigger event and dynamic links. Depending on the action you select, you can then define the link, anchor, pop-up email data, download file or trigger event. And sometimes you can for example define whether to open a link in a separate tab or not. You can select the scroll to anchor, pop-up, you have to enter the email data. For trigger events we have a dedicated tutorial video. These can also be triggered directly on hover, so not only on click.

And with dynamic links you can link for example to your home page or for posts to the post author or post image. And as the name indicates, dynamic links are dynamic. Thus they adapt automatically to each post or also if you change for example your home page.

You can use the trigger currently in the blocks group, button and content box, but further blocks might follow in the near future. Let’s move on to dynamic tags, which you can also find in many blocks.

With them you can enter dynamic values like your page title, the date or post details. Depending on the type of value, you can then also set a link and or define the format in more detail. Or a symbol: You can for example include a copyright symbol. Or for example link to your website title. And so on.

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