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Pattern creator: surface submission guidelines in the welcome guide - #786

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Fixes #751

For context, contributors only saw the submission standards at publish time, after they had already designed a pattern. This is annoying because it happens after you've already tried to create something. This PR takes the approach of doing a few things: adding a guidelines panel to the editor's welcome guide, puts it as the second item to increase the chances of being seen, and increases the width of the modal to better fit the longer text.

On the last piece, from an AI analysis:

Widen the guide from 320px to 480px so the list fits inside the 575px max-height that @wordpress/components caps guides at.

AI also created the visual which I think looks solid enough. I purposefully chose editing the modal as a simple and coherent change rather than trying to add something new. If this isn't enough though, we can always revisit.

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Screen.Recording.2026-10-06.at.1.23.32.PM.mov

How to test the changes in this Pull Request:

  1. Open the pattern editor.
  2. Go to the three dot menu and open up the Welcome Guide.
  3. Click through the welcome guide.

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  • New Features
    • Added a welcome-guide page explaining pattern submission criteria, with a link to the full guidelines.
    • Added an illustrated checklist to the guide.
  • Style
    • Expanded the guide and updated list and link styling.

Contributors only saw the submission standards at publish time, after
they had already designed a pattern. Add a guidelines page to the
editor's welcome guide, positioned second so it is seen before any
design work starts, with a condensed checklist and a link to the full
handbook guidelines.

Widen the guide from 320px to 480px so the list fits inside the 575px
max-height that @wordpress/components caps guides at.

See #751

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@annezazu annezazu added [Type] Enhancement New feature or request [Component] Pattern Creator Anything related to the pattern front end editor or preview [Type] Pattern Submission labels Oct 6, 2026
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The welcome guide adds pattern submission criteria, a link to the full guidelines, and a checklist illustration. The guide width, list styling, and link styling also change.

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Guidelines page and illustration
public_html/wp-content/plugins/pattern-creator/src/components/welcome-guide/images.js, public_html/wp-content/plugins/pattern-creator/src/components/welcome-guide/index.js, public_html/wp-content/plugins/pattern-creator/src/components/welcome-guide/style.scss
The guide adds criteria for uniqueness, scope, title and theme compatibility, and content rights. It links to the full submission guidelines and displays a checklist illustration. The guide width increases to 480px, and list and link styles are added.

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The welcome guide presents the new guidelines page as intended. No actionable merge risk remains beyond normal checks.

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annezazuu and others added 3 commits October 6, 2026 20:50
Add the empty line Stylelint's comment-empty-line-before requires before
the comment opening the list rule, and reformat the new JSX at the
repository's printWidth of 115 rather than the 80 of the shared
@wordpress/prettier-config default.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…in a new tab

The guidelines page was 3px taller than the 575px cap @wordpress/components
puts on guides, so it scrolled even in English, and longer translations
pushed Previous/Next out of view. Tighten the list's bottom margin so the
English page fits, and make the guide footer sticky so navigation stays
visible when a locale does overflow.

Let the guidelines illustration's grid background tile across the full
480px width instead of the 312px viewBox.

The submission modal's "Check the guidelines" link opened in the same tab,
prompting contributors to leave the editor and lose their pattern (#751).
Render it as an ExternalLink so it opens in a new tab.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…on-guidelines

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Thank you for landing this @bor0!

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