Title: Shortcode for images block?
Last modified: September 28, 2022

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# Shortcode for images block?

 *  [jellie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jelliefish/)
 * (@jelliefish)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-for-images-block/)
 * I like to draft my WordPress blog posts in a separate rich text editor then paste
   the whole thing into the Gutenberg editor to do the finishing touches. I have
   placeholders for images throughout the draft, which I would like to automatically
   turn into image blocks when I paste them into Gutenberg. Right now, they are 
   pasted as paragraph blocks and I have to manually convert each one into an image
   block. Is there something like a shortcode that I can use to automatically generate
   image blocks?
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress
      topic

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-for-images-block/#post-16076344)
 * As you likely surmised from the lack of response so far, there’s no shortcode
   you can use to do what you want. Actually, shortcodes wouldn’t be the best approach
   because they are processed upon output for every request. It’s better to have
   the desired content saved in the DB since it’s the same for every request. In
   order to achieve that you’d need some custom JavaScript that processes the pasted
   in content, looking for instances of your placeholder, made into paragraphs by
   Gutenberg. The script could then convert the paragraph block into a proper image
   block (assuming the data unique to that image is in place, such as its URL or
   ID).
 * AFAIK there’s nothing like this “off the shelf”, but something could be custom
   developed.

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 * [gutenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gutenberg/)
 * [image block](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image-block/)
 * [images](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/images/)

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 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-for-images-block/#post-16076344)
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