How do I register genesis custom blocks programmatically in wordpress?

[annahernandez99]

I am trying to create a theme that uses Genesis custom blocks. I want to be able to register a few blocks programmatically when the theme is installed.

The documentation (https://developer.wpengine.com/genesis-custom-blocks/) says that when you want to add a block programmatically you need to use the add_block function from the Genesis namespace

use function Genesis\CustomBlocks\add_block;
add_block( $block_name, $block_config );
I did this and nothing is registered.

I have put the add_block function in my theme directory under /blocks/block-test.php.

I cannot figure out why it is not registering.

[andytc]

Have you added the blocks/blocks-test.php file and path to functions.php ?

Similar to below

require_once get_stylesheet_directory() . '/blocks/block-test.php';

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