Media Library: As a newer user, finding and using Pexels in the editor media library is difficult

[jeyip]

Finding and uploading free images from Pexels is somewhat challenging, especially as a new user when using the media library modal from the Gutenberg editor canvas.

• Discovering Pexels was difficult in the media library modal
• Once I discovered Pexels, I didn't see obvious affordances when trying to search for an image

Image Block (Pexels without navigating to Media Library)

Site Logo Block (Pexels from the Media Library)

[Addison-Stavlo]

It looks like we do something to make the image block behave this way on dotcom (on core it has the same 'media library' button as Site Logo does above). I wonder if this is less 'needs design' and more that we just need to implement the same override for Site Logo's 'media library' button as we do for the Image block's (not yet certain where we do this).

[jeyip]

I wonder if this is less 'needs design' and more that we just need to implement the same override for Site Logo's 'media library' button as we do for the Image block's (not yet certain where we do this).

I like your suggestion because it would require less discussion and time investment (especially nice since we already have so many other things to focus on for FSE) One concern that I'll call out is that the issues with Pexel discoverability and affordances would still exist when accessing the media library from the wp admin sidebar, but I think it's fine to avoid going down that rabbit hole for now.