Writing a post

Should you wish to write a post on make/design there are a few things to go through.

Asking to post

Usually, you will be an active contributor to the team and collaborate at least first with a team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts.. Should you wish to write a post here are the steps:

  • Reach out in #design or to a team rep to propose what you want to write on.
  • Should you put your hand up in a meeting to write about something, you can skip the first step.

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What can be posted?

The subjects are wide but just some of the things that can be posted are:

  • Meeting notes and agendas have separate flows.
  • Proposals have a workflow.
  • If you are facilitating a contribution day for design, you can post about this.
  • Bigger picture ideas and discussions, for example, this one about ‘Blocks, Patterns and Layouts’.
  • User research and benchmarking. Usually, this relates to a specific focus or existing TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket/issue.

This is just a suggested list if you have an idea just let everyone know in #design.

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Posting

Once you are ready to post, you will be given access to make/design (that’s this handbook sites blog). Here is a guide to posting:

  • Make sure you ask when posting would be a good time in #design. This likely will have been worked out before but just incase hasn’t been do not skip this step.
  • Write your post.
  • Save as draft.
  • Preview.
  • If it is your first post you need to get at least 1 team rep to approve before you post.
  • If it is not your first post still get at least 1 review from other design team members before posting, for example by asking in #design or messaging a team rep or focus maintainer if working on a specific focus.
  • Once approved for posting, give one last check and publish.
  • Congratulations you just made an awesome post!

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Tips

Here are some useful points for writing posts:

  • If you want feedback, write your post in a Google doc first and invite collaboration there.
  • Make sure to test any videos and images across devices.
  • Make sure to link in any names to profiles if referring to someone.
  • Think about the reading length on the post, use headers and consider splitting across several posts if long.
  • Should you be asking for feedback, clearly state what you are asking for feedback on.
  • If the discussion is happening elsewhere along with the post, make sure to link back tit, for example, an issue.

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