Thanks for picking it up!

What do you think about designing something very light for this, nodding to the fact that the theme was generated by create block theme? cc @beafialho.

Yeah, I like that idea! I also thought about that but then I thought the plain image was simpler. It would be great if we could design something light with a nod to create block theme.

Thanks for tagging me! Do you have any sort of visual reference of what you mean? I don't think I'm visualizing it. Where would this screenshot show up in the plugin?

This is for a placeholder screenshot for an exported theme from the plugin. So it would show up in Appearance > Themes:

At the moment, the one I added is just that blank, transparent image.

Thanks @mikachan! Since @henriqueiamarino designed the logo for the plugin, he'll follow up with this placeholder screenshot.

What do you think about having a dynamically generated image as a default screenshot image? This dynamically generated image could feature some of the characteristics of the theme as the typography and the palette. We could have a base design that we can dynamically modify using these visual tokens from the theme and the data from the data form.

There is an example I mocked up quickly in the browser. It isn't lovely, but to exemplify the idea:

That would be awesome, I really like your mockup!

One issue with that style of screenshot is if it's intended to be uploaded to the dotorg theme directory, then I don't think this follows the guidelines of accurately showing the theme design - I think ideally it's meant to represent the theme as it looks when activated (see WordPress/twentytwentythree#163 (comment) for more info).

We have this same issue with the blank screenshot or a screenshot with the Create Block Theme logo though too.

Maybe we just need to make it obvious that the screenshot needs to be replaced if uploading to the directory.

One issue with that style of screenshot is if it's intended to be uploaded to the dotorg theme directory, then I don't think this follows the guidelines of accurately showing the theme design

Ohh, good catch. Encouraging theme creators to upload the themes to the wordpress.org directory is desirable, so I guess that adding the dynamically created image won't make sense if the theme creators could not use the generated images to distribute the themes in the directory.

@mikachan @matiasbenedetto @beafialho I was thinking in something simple like that, what do you think?

Would @henriqueiamarino 's design be allowed in the themes directory as screenshot image?

Would @henriqueiamarino 's design be allowed in the themes directory as screenshot image?

No, this wouldn't be allowed either, but I think it's more obvious that this is a placeholder image rather than the final screenshot.

Would @henriqueiamarino 's design be allowed in the themes directory as screenshot image?

no, but it's more obvious that it needs replacing since it's not specific to the theme. As I see it there's 3 options:

• leave it transparent
• use Henrique's design
• generate a screenshot of the theme using canvas (the way dotcom does previews or how we preview the patterns on dotorg)

Only option 3 is valid for the directory

I think we could go with @henriqueiamarino's design for now, and maybe explore using canvas in a separate PR?

@mikachan @matiasbenedetto @beafialho I was thinking in something simple like that, what do you think?

I'm not sure about the pixelated area 😕 it looks like a bug to me.

Oh @beafialho do you think it gets better with bigger pixels? Because that was pretty the idea of the art — use 'logo blocks' to form a noise, a piece of visual information.

Oh @beafialho do you think it gets better with bigger pixels?

Perhaps that can work!

Oh @beafialho do you think it gets better with bigger pixels?

Perhaps that can work!

Updated!

Updated!

I've added the screenshot from this comment: #193 (comment). Is that correct?