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.
Diary dates
Update: link to meeting 21 July 2021
WordPress 5.8 was released yesterday. Well done to everyone who was involved in this release and during the last three months. As marketers and communicators, our work continues.
In today’s global Marketing meeting at 14:00 UTC today (Wednesday 21 July 2021) and the rest of the week, we will have lots of items to research and pull together. Our first priority is to finalize the initial social media posts draft on the WP 5.8 release, which were made available for fact-checking in the Marketing Slack and Release Leads, so thank you to those who have already added answers or further comments.
We are continuing collaborations on a pack and supporting resources following on from our pilot and Josepha’s requests.
We will divide the work into two groups – one for developers and the other for non-developers, so everyone has some to work on and is welcome to join our meeting.
The Marketing Meeting on 7 and 14 July 2021
The background on social media pack collaboration for 5.8, 30 June 2021
The collaboration will be progressed in the Marketing Team 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 and use Google documents / sheets which will be shared on Slack. We know a few of our collaborators are finding commenting and viewing Google Sheets difficult, so we will have an alternative format available where they can add their work.
We will also continue to make use of GitHub, as in recent pilots.
Everyone! We have broken down the tasks to enable as many people from different backgrounds to be able to collaborate, building on what has worked in other collaborations and feedback.
We especially could do with some more developers input from those who have tested or used 5.8.
We post collaborations before the meeting to help with accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) and to help enable collaboration from different timezones. So let us know if you are planning to collaborate asynchronously before or after the meeting too. Everyone is welcome to be involved directly or shadow. We also have a number of new joiners who are shadowing at the moment too.
With @nalininonstopnewsuk, @meher, @marybaum, @OGlekler, @yvettesonneveld, @vimes1984, @maedahbatool and others, there will be support during different timezones during the collaborations. If you would like to help support other collaborators, especially those new to the team, let us know.
There are no restrictions. We have people involved from across timezones and countries, from a variety of skillsets and WordPress experiences. We have had contributors from the team who have gone on to discover a joy for testing, translation or writing documentation, and people who come and help for specific areas from other teams too.
We are keen to promote the many ways people can support the growth and development of WordPress and its community.
There are specific parts of our work which benefit from a background as a writer, editor, marketer and PR, in search or research, developer, or task collator. But there are lots of opportunities for those new to marketing and communications too and we have onboarding support and training available too.
