Free Photo Library: Highlight feature

[gwwar]

The Free Photo Library allows customers to quickly add free images to their pages and posts. It's a powerful tool to help folks with content creation, and we regularly recommend this feature during Quick Start sessions ~(17% this month).

Natural discoverability of this feature is currently buried in the media modal. It requires opening the media modal by inserting an image block > clicking on an unlabed image icon > then clicking on Free photo library

How might we help customers find this feature? @dezzie @danhauk maybe this might make sense as a Customer Home card?

[dezzie]

Yes! It's one of the concepts that previous iterations of the work looked into exploring, but under the assumption that we did not have an offering yet. If do already have it, I say let's leverage it. Thanks for finding it!

[zdenys]

Can we also fix this #31230 bug as it gets in the way every time we use Free Photo Library from within the Post/Page (instead of from WordPress.com > My Sites > Site > Media)?

[arunsathiya]

18386381-zen. Request to improve visibility of this feature as well. Right now is accessible only on Calypso. Not on wp-admin.

[gwwar]

@dezzie are you comfortable with us trying to implement this?

Would we try showing a video here, or linking directly into the media modal to the free library search?

[gwwar]

After chatting with @lcollette to start with I think a video that keeps folks in Customer Home would make sense. We can always follow up in future iterations with a tour or better media modal UX in general.

[Aurorum]

I opened a PR in #39506 for this issue. :)