The Marketing team promotes WordPress to current and future users and contributors. We create and amplify campaigns to support the growth of the WordPress project.
Our work is tracked on the Marketing Tasks Board on the WordPress organization’s GitHub. If you are planning a Marketing Table at a Contributor Event, please let us know in the Slack channel.
You can be part of the #marketing channel on Slack. Join our next Weekly Marketing Chat at: Tuesday 15:00 UTC.
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Our vision for the Marketing Team is to be the go-to resource for strategy and content for other WordPress teams.
To help other WordPress teams communicate with each other, with agencies, with community volunteers, and end-users. The Marketing Team aims to continuously get a feel for how the platform is perceived in the community and how it could be improved.
WordPress is a free and easy-to-use publication platform, developed, maintained, and supported by a warm and welcoming group of volunteers and offers near unlimited options for customization.
Short answer: yes.
We’re volunteers just like everyone else. Sometimes there are unrealistic expectations put upon us (or any volunteers — Mika Epstein (@Ipstenu) has often written about this from her perspective on the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party team).
Some of us give an hour a week, some more. Some donate their time to a Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. or two—or three. We move as fast as we can with the volunteers we have. And doing the best we can, we move forward, pressing forward, to help each other and the WordPress Project, from which many of us derive our personal careers.
We are volunteers. We are passionate about WordPress. We work in social media, marketing, analytics. We’re writers. We’re analysts. We’re communicators. We crave data and we love learning about human behavior.
“Like much of the .org community, the marketing team is 100% volunteers, so the projects and things tackled are decided by who shows up to work (and not part of some top-down plan that you’re alluding to).” — Sara Rosso
Our vision is to create a unified voice in the WordPress ecosystem between volunteers and users.
We welcome all volunteers and we thank you for donating your time.
You can read more about how to get involved here.
We meet at 8:00 am Pacific Time on Wednesdays in the 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. You can read more about our schedule here.
We have four subgroups: community and three based upon personas. Each meets on a specific Wednesday each month and you’re free to join any. All subgroups are open to anyone. You can join any group at any time. All subgroups are moderated and we post notes to the same blog.
You can read more about how we run our Slack meetings here.
There are two marketing badges, one for team leads and one for contributors. Constant attendance to meetings and/or producing a written document is how you will receive a badge. Bridget (@bridgetwillard on 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/) is keeping a spreadsheet and is in ongoing communication with the metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team. If you need assistance on getting a badge, DM her on slack (@gidgey).
We help produce content, campaigns, and strategy to help the WordPress Project overall, MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. Participation, and gain data to better communicate with agencies, developers, and end-users.
This year (to date), we’ve published:
