Site Assembler - Pattern categories review and update

[miksansegundo]

Related with Gutenberg issues

• Revisiting / contextualising pattern categories, and default inclusions
• Inserter: Iterate on pattern categories

What

Review the categories in Dotcom vs Dotorg in the context of the Site Assembler and update them if necessary.

Dotcom patterns source site categories

1. About (25)
2. Blog (20)
3. Call to Action (33)
4. Coming Soon (5)
5. Contact (15)
6. CV/Portfolio (12)
7. Editorial (18)
8. Featured (24)
9. Footer (18)
10. Gallery (13)
11. Header (12)
12. Highlights (2)
13. Home (10)
14. Images (20)
15. Link in Bio (23)
16. Links (2)
17. Newsletter (19)
18. Photography (7)
19. Podcast (6)
20. Portfolio (28)
21. Posts (0)
22. Quotes (7)
23. Services (6)
24. Shop (23)
25. Sidebar (1)
26. Splash (2)
27. Team (2)
28. Testimonials (2)
29. Wireframe (56)

Dotorg Pattern categories

1. Banners
2. Buttons "Patterns that contain buttons and call to actions."
3. Columns "Multi-column patterns with more complex layouts."
4. Text "Patterns containing mostly text."
5. Posts "Display your latest posts in lists, grids or other layouts."
6. Featured "A set of high quality curated patterns."
7. Call to Action "Sections whose purpose is to trigger a specific action."
8. Team "A variety of designs to display your team members."
9. Testimonials "Share reviews and feedback about your brand/business."
10. Services "Briefly describe what your business does and how you can help."
11. Contact "Display your contact information."
12. About "Introduce yourself."
13. Portfolio "Showcase your latest work."
14. Gallery "Different layouts for displaying images."
15. Media "Different layouts containing video or audio."
16. Posts "Display your latest posts in lists, grids or other layouts."
17. Footers "A variety of footer designs displaying information and site navigation."
18. Headers "A variety of header designs displaying your site title and navigation."
19. Forms

Dotorg Pattern Directory categories

1. About
2. Audio
3. Banners
4. Buttons
5. Call to Action
6. Columns
7. Contact
8. Featured
9. Footers
10. Gallery

Why

Here some notes for reviewing:

• Featured category
  • This category is shown in the first position. Which patterns are featured?
  • We plan to keep the category without patterns, only Page Layouts. See https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/issues/75864
• What’s the difference between Blog and Posts categories?
  • The Blog category only exists in Dotcom. The Posts category contain patterns using the Query Loop block to render any kind of posts.
  • Shall we merge them into Posts?
  • Are we expecting to add more patterns into Blog?
• Sidebar category
  • Does it makes sense in the Assembler?
  • Is it worth it to hide it?
• Testimonials and Services categories
  • They have only two patterns tagged as Pattern.
  • There are more tagged as Layout but the editor and the assembler only fetch patterns tagged as Pattern.
• Categories that contain only Layout patterns:
  • Registered categories (meaning they are returned by the API)
  • Team
  • Not registered categories
  • Highlights
  • Home
  • Links
  • Splash

Do we have more categories than necessary in Dotcom?

How

• Review
  • Add descriptions
  • Look for conflicts with Dotorg. See https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/44501
• Update
  • Maybe hide some? in the assembler only?
  • Maybe remove some?
  • Maybe recategorize some patterns?

[miksansegundo]

Closing in favor of https://github.com/Automattic/dotcom-forge/issues/2223