Could we add a new icon for WordPress links in the author's socials?

[ilg-ul]

I did some tests with the new socials in the authors.yml and they seem pretty nice.

For now I identified only x, github and linkedin with specific icons, the rest are rendered with a generic globe icon.

Would you agree to add a new icon for WordPress links? Possibly Blogger? Possibly other blog solutions?

[slorber]

We could add some pre-built icons for the most common platforms but the goal is not to be exhaustive and I doubt WordPress or Blogger are worth adding.

We made the system extensible so that you can register your own custom icons through swizzle

Just add your label/icon there:

theme/Blog/Components/Author/Socials/index.tsx

const SocialPlatformConfigs: Record<string, SocialPlatformConfig> = {
  twitter: {Icon: Twitter, label: 'Twitter'},
  github: {Icon: GitHub, label: 'GitHub'},
  stackoverflow: {Icon: StackOverflow, label: 'Stack Overflow'},
  linkedin: {Icon: LinkedIn, label: 'LinkedIn'},
  x: {Icon: X, label: 'X'},
};

[ilg-ul]

I doubt WordPress or Blogger are worth adding.

Blogger might not be worth adding, but WordPress is still quite popular and many people use it for personal blogs.

you can register your own custom icons through swizzle

Yeah, I can use swizzle, but any component swizzled is like a subscription to undefined maintenance efforts, since it requires permanent future attention to keep up with next versions...

Adding the WordPress icon to Docusaurus would be a one time commit that would require no further maintenance.

[slorber]

WordPress is still quite popular and many people use it for personal blogs.

The fact that WordPress is a popular platform doesn't change anything. Regular human beings don't care about the platform you use.

Similarly I host my personal website on Vercel using Docusaurus, and it has a 🌐 icon, not a 🔼 or 🦖 icon.

I am happy to help reduce the maintenance effort but currently adding icons has a cost in terms of bundle size for everyone and maintenance for us, and honestly WordPress is the last icon I would add, unless there's clear user traction for it (ie not only you but at least 5 others).

We are more likely to add icons for those things that regular human beings (ie not devs) reference using sentences such as "this person has ". My parents would never use "this user has a WordPress", however they might say someone has an Instagram, TikTok, newsletter, podcast, website. Hope it makes sense.

If "this user has a WordPress" makes sense for your target audience (which I doubt even if the audience is developers), then it's a specific case and should be added with swizzle.

[ilg-ul]

Ok, until there will be more users interested in this, I'll stick to the globe icon.