Submit to Site Showcase

Want to submit a site to the Site Showcase? Follow these instructions.

Steps

There are only three major steps :)

1. If this is your first contribution to the Gatsby open source repo, follow the Contribution guidelines.

2. If there is a chance that someone else could have already submitted the site, please make sure no one else has already submitted it by searching existing PRs: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/pulls

3. Edit the sites.yml file by adding your submission to the bottom of the list of sites in the following format:

- title: Title of the Site

  # this is the URL that is linked from the showcase
  main_url: https://titleofthesite.com

  # this URL is used to generate a screenshot
  url: https://titleofthesite.com/portfolio

  # optional: for open-source sites, this URL points to the repo that powers the site
  source_url: https://github.com/{username}/{titleofthesite}

  # optional: short paragraph describing the content and/or purpose of the site that will appear in the modal detail view and permalink views for your site
  description: >
    {titleofthesite} is a shiny new website built with Gatsby v2 that makes important contributions towards a faster web for everyone.

  # You can list as many categories as you want here. Check list of Categories below in this doc!
  # If you'd like to create a new category, simply list it here.
  categories:
    - Relevant category 1
    - Relevant category 2

  # Add the name (developer or company) and URL (e.g. Twitter, GitHub, portfolio) to be used for attribution
  built_by: Jane Q. Developer
  built_by_url: https://example.org

  # leave as false, the Gatsby site review board will choose featured sites quarterly
  featured: false

Use the following template to ensure required fields are filled:

- title: (required)
  url: (required)
  main_url: (required)
  source_url: (optional - https://github.com/{username}/{titleofthesite})
  description: >
    (optional)
  categories:
    - (required)
  built_by: (optional)
  built_by_url: (optional)
  featured: false

Helpful information

Categories

Categories currently include both type of site (structure) and the content of the site. You will place all these under “categories” in your submission for now. The reason these are in two separate lists here is to show that you can have a school’s marketing site (type of site would be marketing, and content would be education) or a site that delivers online learning about marketing (type of site would be education and content would be marketing).

Type of site

• Blog
• Directory
• Documentation
• eCommerce
• Education
• Gallery
• Portfolio
• (feel free to create new ones after checking to make sure the tag you want doesn’t already exist)

Content of site:

A few notes on site content: a common question is this: “aren’t all Gatsby sites technically in the “web development” category?” Well, no because this category means the content of the site has to be about web development, like ReactJS. Also, the difference between technology and web development is like this. Cardiogram is technology, while ReactJS is web development.

• Agency
• Cinema
• Education
• Entertainment
• Finance
• Food
• Health & Wellness
• Healthcare
• Hosting
• Gallery
• Government
• Magazine
• Marketing
• Miscellaneous
• Music
• News
• Nonprofit
• Open Source
• Photography
• Podcast
• Real Estate
• Science
• Technology
• Web Development
• (feel free to create new ones after checking to make sure the tag you want doesn’t already exist)

Note on Featured Sites

Review process

By default, all sites submitted to the Site Showcase will be reviewed by the Gatsby Site Review Board as a candidate for the ‘Featured Sites’ section of the showcase. If you do not want your site to be featured, please add ‘DO NOT FEATURE’ to the pull request.

Featured sites will be chosen quarterly based on the following criteria:

• Well known brands
• Use case diversity
• Visual appeal
• Visual diversity

How many can be featured at a time?

9, since that’s what can fit on one page of the site showcase

How to Set a Site as Featured

Note: the Gatsby team will choose featured sites, leave as featured: false when first posting

If your site is chosen as featured, here’s what to do next:

1. Change featured: false to featured: true

2. Add featured as a category:

categories:
  - featured

Change your mind / need to edit your submission?

If you want to edit anything in your site submission later, simply edit the .yml file by submitting another PR.