After the Pattern Directory has launched, users will be able to add their own patterns to it directly. In the meantime though, the project needs a collection of high-quality, diverse, community-designed patterns to populate it with during development. These patterns will set the tone for quality in the repository, and will make the directory useful for folks upon its launch.
The Design team has already produced a small set of patterns to kick this off. If you’re using the Gutenberg plugin, you may have noticed a new set of bundled block patterns in the pattern inserter recently:
These were designed by @beafialho, @melchoyce, and myself as iterations on the default set that shipped with WordPress 5.5. They have already been migrated into the upcoming Patterns Directory on WordPress.org for testing there.
This small set is just the beginning though! The three of us are continuing to design patterns to feed into the Pattern Directory, and we’d love your help. We encourage you to submit pattern candidates (in the form of mockups and/or block markup) using the “[Type] Pattern Submission” tag in the Pattern Directory’s GitHub repository. There’s an issue template already created to help you get started.
In this early phase, the Design team will review each suggested pattern and work to identify a list of criteria for which types of patterns are good candidates for pre-submission to the directory.
Please share any questions or concerns in the comments below. I’m looking forward to growing the Pattern Directory, and can’t wait to see we all design together!