{"id":2777,"date":"2022-07-08T18:19:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T10:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2022-07-08T18:19:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T10:19:54","slug":"auto-set-image-alignment-wp-block-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/auto-set-image-alignment-wp-block-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Automatically Set Image Alignment In WordPress Block Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When you use the WordPress block editor a lot, you may wish you could automatically set the image alignment when you add a new image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By default, the image will have an alignment of \"None\".<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Adding<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

How to automatically center images in the WordPress block editor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To have the images automatically be center-aligned when you add them to the WordPress block editor, add this code to the functions.php<\/em> file of your child theme<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

add_filter( 'block_type_metadata', 'set_image_auto_centre' );\n\nfunction set_image_auto_centre( $metadata ) {\n  if ( 'core\/image' !== $metadata['name'] ) {\n    return $metadata;\n  }\n  $metadata['attributes']['align']['default'] = 'center';\n\n  return $metadata;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Once you've implemented this code, adding a new image will have its alignment set to center.<\/p>\n\n\n
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\"Adding<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
The way this works is whenever a block is called, it checks against our function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have a guard clause to stop processing if it's any block other than the normal image block:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
if ( 'core\/image' !== $metadata['name'] ) {\n  return $metadata;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
If the function is still running at this point, we know we're working with the image block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We change the default to center with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$metadata['attributes']['align']['default'] = 'center';<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
And return the result to the block editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You don't have to stick with center alignment. You could do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
  • wide<\/li>
  • full<\/li>
  • center<\/li>
  • left<\/li>
  • right<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
    Just replace 'center' with the alignment that suits your workflow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    To use wide or full, your theme will need to support wide and full width images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    As this is PHP, you can run conditionals, so maybe check if it's a page or a post. Maybe you want the default image to be wide on a particular custom post type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    Does changing the default alignment force all images to the same alignment?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    This code will only change the default - how the image is brought in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    If you want to change the alignment after, that's no problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    All you're doing is changing the alignment to center instead of none, which is the default.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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