Gutenberg moving core blocks between categories

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Although I’m unsure on how to achieve this in php, within javascript you can change the category by hooking into the blocks.registerBlockType hook.

Here is a small example how it would work, although I’d recommend using lodash to deepClone the settings object to keep everything immutable.

const rearrangeBlockCategories = {
  'core/table': 'common',
};

wp.hooks.addFilter('blocks.registerBlockType', '[namespace]', (settings, name) => {
  if (rearrangeBlockCategories[name]) {
    settings.category = rearrangeBlockCategories[name];  
  }

  return settings;

});

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