So I was hoping to have my theme create special blocks for different parts of the front page so that they can be moved around easily later. I added the files to mytheme/src/Plugin/Block/BlockName.php but they never show up anywhere on the site or the block manager even after clearing cache.
Here's the code for one of my blocks (MediaPanel.php):
<?php
/**
* @file
* Contains \Drupal\mytheme\Plugin\Block\MediaPanel.
*/
namespace Drupal\mytheme\Plugin\Block;
use Drupal\Core\Block\BlockBase;
/**
* Provides my custom block.
*
* @Block(
* id = "media_panel",
* admin_label = @Translation("Media Panel"),
* category = @Translation("Blocks")
* )
*/
class MediaPanel extends BlockBase {
/**
* {@inheritdoc}
*/
public function build() {
return array('#markup' => 'hello world');
}
}
?>
Do I have to use a module for creating Blocks? It would be inconvenient to have to make a module to create blocks that will be specific to my theme anyway.
