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annezazu 7:32 pm on September 7, 2025
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Introducing the #content-creators slack channel

Last week, a new slackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel was started called #content-creators that all are welcome to join. The focus is on providing a dedicated channel for those in the WordPress content creation space with the following aims: 

  • Build community by providing a space where content creators can connect, collaborate, and learn from each other.
  • Share feedback loops from audiences who comment on videos or posts, as well as from creators themselves as they run into bugs or enhancements when creating content. 
  • Increase awareness of new WordPress features through more direct sharing to encourage learning and adoption by both new and existing users.
  • Grow adoption of WordPress overall through more impactful content creation.

This channel is a new experiment aimed at bringing conversations into the open, so more people can benefit and join in. While the above is the initial intent, the space is meant to evolve as more content creators join and a greater understanding of what would be the most useful forms. In six months, the impact of this channel will be revisited (# of channel members, overall engagement, survey of creators to understand if it’s helped them) and a decision will be made whether to continue with having a dedicated space.

If you are a content creator, whether brand new or seasoned, please consider joining: create a WordPress.org slack account if you don’t already have one and head to #content-creators. There’s purposefully not a hard and fast definition for what defines a content creator and, if you’re feeling imposter syndrome around it, join anyways. Lurkers are welcomed here!

For now, I’ll share work-in-progress updates from CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., be available to answer questions (feel free to @ me), and host occasional hallway hangouts for more in depth discussions. I’m excited to see more of you in #content-creators and to explore how we can support each other in telling the story of WordPress. 

#slack

John Blackbourn 12:24 am on October 29, 2014
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Modernising our real-time communication

The WordPress project is testing out Slack as our main real-time communication platform, replacing IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. and ad hoc Skype chats.

chat.wordpress.org is our new information hub for SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. All wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ users will be able to access WordPress Slack with immediate effect.

This change was announced by Matt during his State Of The WordState of the Word This is the annual report given by Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress at WordCamp US. It looks at what we’ve done, what we’re doing, and the future of WordPress. https://wordpress.tv/tag/state-of-the-word/. presentation at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. San Francisco this weekend, and was overwhelmingly positively received. In fact, it was so well received that this week’s dev chat (October 29 2014 20:00 UTC) will be hosted in the WordPress #core channel on Slack, rather than in the #wordpress-dev channel on IRC.

There will be volunteers hanging out in #wordpress-dev to inform users that the dev chat has moved to Slack. For those of you who don’t want to leave IRC just yet, you can connect to WordPress Slack using the IRC gateway.

The #core and #announcements channels on Slack have just surpassed 1,000 users, which is five times as many as we’ve ever had in the channels on IRC. Join us at chat.wordpress.org!

#irc, #slack