As reported over on the Meta blog, the 85 patterns the community designed for launch with the Pattern Directory are now live! 🎉

Thank you to everyone who submitted, refined, and helped launch this set. I’m thrilled that users have such a broad set of high-quality patterns to choose from at launch, and I look forward to iterating and growing the collection over time. 

Now that we’re post-launch, we’re going to close submission of general patterns to this initial collection. The next phase of development for the directory will allow anyone to submit their own patterns directly, so please hold onto your ideas for then!

In the meantime, the design team may add a few more patterns from time to time (similar to how default patterns were occasionally added to Gutenberg before). You can keep an eye on the Pattern Directory’s GitHub repository for any activity there. Also, if you notice a bug with one of the existing WordPress.org patterns, please file an issue and let folks know! 

Thanks again to the contributors who made these patterns happen: @anariel-design, @beafialho, @bgardner, @cavalierlife, @chrislema, @circlecube, @critterverse, @greenshady, @jameskoster, @jcasabona, @karmatosed, @kellychoffman, @kjellr, @laxmariappan, @mahvash-fatima, @melchoyce, @richtabor, @schutzsmith, @tajim, @webmandesign, @wetah