☂ Pattern Assembler flow in logged-out Theme Showcase

[bangank36]

Description

The logged-out theme showcase, which is access from wordpress.com/themes currently did not showing blank-canvas-3 ( BC) theme. This issue will bring the BC to theme showcase and navigate user to /patternAssembler step after picking BC and sign up

• POC video
  
  deBSze.mov

Dev tasks

• Display blank-canvas-3 theme in the returned result on theme showcase
  - Introduce feature flag for patternAssembler on theme showcase Enable feature flag to unlock blank-canvas-3 #71708
  - Update query_themes on wpcom to return blank-canvas-3 to logged-out showcase D97205-code
• Collect the query parameter to change the destination of /with-theme flow Enable feature flag to unlock blank-canvas-3 #71708
• Introduce new Assembler flow Adding new assembler flow #72747
• [ Jan, 10 2023 ] Should display blank-canvas-3 theme as Blank Canvas CTA Display PatternAssembler CTA on Logged-out ThemShowcase #72752
• [x] Pre-select blank-canvas-3 design on /patternAssembler step to navigate user on PA step after sign up Make sure user lands on PatternAssembler after select blank-canvas #71852
• [x] Make sure user is landed on /site-editor after complete logged-out theme showcase flow Make sure user lands on PatternAssembler after select blank-canvas #71852
• [ Jan, 10 2023 ] Metrics for logged-out theme showcase flow

Testing

• Log out from wp account and visit the /themes showcase
• Choosing BC theme ( in a form of the blank canvas CTA )
• Finish sign up
• Then you should land on /patternAssembler step
• Finish adding patterns & land on /site-editor

Reference

• Spike issue can be found here

@Automattic/lego

[autumnfjeld]

FYI I renamed this issue to "Pattern Assembler ...." to keep consistency with 🔍 [Spike] Pattern Assembler: Make a POC for blog patterns (aka query block patterns)

:)

[bangank36]

Update for unlocking blank-canvas-3 in the API, we decided to not unlock the theme for the /wp-admin/themes for now, since it would require logged-in user for visiting that page.
Check D97205-code for the discussions

[bangank36]

Regarding to /with-theme theme parameter

• I tried to access the getChecklistThemeDestination dependencies find out the theme param is not available
• Since this is a signup flow, it should relate to client/signup/controller.js
• I found out how the ref value is added into signup dependencies
• We can follow this to add the theme param to tweak the with-theme flow destination

[bangank36]

Tue, Jan 2023

• Enable feature flag to unlock blank-canvas-3 #71708 is merged, it makes sure that user will see the blank-canvas-3 theme and be landed on /patternAssembler step after signup/login
• pbxlJb-3jS-p2 Project thread is created
• Metrics investigation is in motion
• Next: for the rest of the week I will try to finish basic feature of this issue, allowing user to lands on PA step without redirecting back to /goals due to lack of design the selectedDesign prop is empty since we skip the /designSetup step Pattern Assembler - Redirection to start the flow from the first step  #69780

[autumnfjeld]

Next: for the rest of the week I will try to finish basic feature of this issue, allowing user to lands on PA step without redirecting back to /goals due to lack of design

@bangank36 What do you mean "lack of design" ?

Looking forward to testing the whole flow out. 😃

[bangank36]

@autumnfjeld I mean the selectedDesign from the /designSetup step #69780

[bangank36]

@fushar with this diff D97579-code is going to be deployed, I think we need to change the usage of feature flag pattern-assembler/logged-out-showcase, to make sure the PA flow will only be introduced after this issue has been completed.
Check out PR #71962

[autumnfjeld]

@bangank36 @taipeicoder Flagging this issue in case it is 1) something that might impact this work 2) something we might able to help out with:

Themes: Point the Logged Out Upsell to the Signup Flow https://github.com/Automattic/dotcom-forge/issues/1454

[arthur791004]

Closing it as it's shipped to the production via #73219. Here is the announcement: p7DVsv-gwG-p2. We'll continue to audit the metrics.