Override categories with Pages (block theme)

In your scenario, where you want to override an auto-generated category page with a manually-created Page in WordPress, especially when using block themes, the challenge arises because block themes use a different file structure compared to classic themes. They rely on HTML templates and theme.json instead of the traditional PHP templates. Here’s a more elegant … Read more

Replacing specific Gutenberg blocks

I am not sure If I get what you meant, but study https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/render_block_this-name/ filter, whan calling it give it $accepted_args number of 3 and inspect what is returned in $block_content or $instance. ID is encoded as ref attribute, if that’s what you are missing. You could also use render_block filter, but render_block_{$this->name} is more convenient, … Read more