How can I use a plugin to render a custom block?

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Hello,

I am currently building a new website using Kirby 5. I want to create a custom block needed for a blog post blueprint in the panel where I want to allow the user to embed instagram reels.
However I created a new block type inside the blueprint

The following code is in site/blueprints/pages(/beitrag.yml)

  post_content:
    label:
      de: Inhalt
      en: Content
    type: blocks
    pretty: true
    fieldsets:
      - code
      - gallery
      - heading
      - image
      - line
      - list
      - markdown
      - quote
      - table
      - text
      - video
      - type: embed_instagram
        name: Instagram
        icon: instagram
        preview: fields
        wysiwyg: true
        fields:
          post_embed_link:
            type: url
          post_embed_alt:
            type: text

Following this I have created the “embed_instagram” file (path: site/snippets/blocks(/embed_instagram.php)

<?php
    #echo("Test Output");
    echo($block->post_embed_link()->toEmbed()->code());
?>

If uncommented the Testutput works but if I try to render my block I receive the following error:

Block error: "Call to a member function code() on null" in block type: "embed_instagram"

It seems like the plugin is not callable inside the blocks structure and I didn’t find any useful reference for me (maybe I overlooked something?)

I try to integrate the (kirby-embed plugin it has integration for the normal fields and standard frontend useage.
Just try to import the index.php file doesn’t work for me (require(‘path to file’))

Does anybody know how to get this working? ^^

Thank you in advance ^^
j54j6

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Not sure what you mean here (and don’t know the plugin). But from looking at the code, you cannot use the toEmbed() method on a simple url field, but would have to either use the embed field, or the global site method $site->getEmbedData($url); as explained in the docs.