Concrete 5 -- Add Block to page_type When writing the page_type template it's possible to embed to areas using the standard area code, $a = new Area('area_name'); $a-&gt;display($c); Using the Defaults option on the Dashboard / Page Types screen it's then possible to add blocks to the area you created. In my case I was installing the page_type as part of a package so I didn't want to have to ask people using it to add in blocks themselves. After some help from someone on IRC I added the following code which allows me to add a content block to the area with some default content. The trick turned out to be getting the master template for the page_type you have just installed and then adding the block to that using the standard addBlock() call. As I've just wasted a fair bit of time searching for a bug in my code that turned out to be a simple spelling mistake, make sure you have the same name for the area in the page_type template and in the above code