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The WordPress Block Pattern Directory
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Add social images / twitter cards for individual patterns #469

Open carolinan opened 2 years ago

carolinan commented 2 years ago

Describe the bug When you share a link to a pattern on social media, the preview image is for the pattern directory. It would be nice if the preview was of the individual pattern.

ryelle commented 2 years ago

If there were screenshots of each pattern, we could use those for the shared image. That preview image could also be used for display on the pattern archive (grid) pages to improve render time, rather than rendering a bunch of iframe previews.

Past discussions of screenshotting patterns:

Ren2049 commented 1 year ago

Individual patterns can be hard to make out in a small image like a card, but how about thumbnail images/legends of pattern categories?

The ones in this example are quite rough but they could also serve another purpose like categorization of patterns for a better pattern picking UX and for on user upload, where users would have to select some visual pattern category.

It's one of those things that are much better visually explained than by text. Under each thumbnail users would then find the actual patterns associated with the thumbnail.