Although there are a few basic blocks available after creating a project, there are a lot more blocks available in the dev kit. However, you have to add them to your project using WP-CLI (the simplest method). To see the complete list of available components and blocks, visit our Storybook.

These can be used out-of-the-box, but also as a good starting point if you need similar blocks in your projects. It will also speed up your development time since you don't have to build everything from scratch.

In this blog post, we'll give you a practical explanation about the difference between components and blocks. For a truly in-depth explanation about components and blocks, you can refer to our documentation. A more specific explanation about using components in a block can be found in the Component in a Block section.

As is often the case when trying out something new, you might encounter some hiccups. You're trying out our Eightshift Boilerplate, but can't get it to work? Worry not, we'll go through the setup and the most common issues that may occur.