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
If you are reading these notes on a website other than the Make WordPress Marketing blog, please contact us on the #marketing channel on 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/. or via the team’s blog as we may not be aware of comments you add on other sites to be able to reply or help involve you.
Link to the start of the meeting on Marketing Slack to help with async contributions.
These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues please do join the discussion threads after the meeting and send your updates.
Thank you to @ugyensupport for drafting April 27, 2022 notes.
Notetakers for coming weeks – you can join our group of contributors taking part in producing notes by volunteering when you see a call for note-takers during our meetings or by adding your name to the weekly GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ card.
We are always looking for contributors to open the virtual coffee shop for the bi-weekly coffee break. Check out the GitHub card and add your name to the list!
Updates via @nalininonstopnewsuk
You can find our central GitHub repository and task board at this link: Marketing Tasks GitHub board. If a post is published relating to a task, please add the published link and indicate if the task can be closed.
If you would like specific assistance on using GitHub, please reply in this thread. We have contributors who have been providing small group and one-to-one support on this.
Updates via @webcommsat
Slack Thread Link
The project is working towards the next release, 6.0. For awareness, some updates from coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and docs:
Updates via @lmurillom
Updates via @eidolonnight
Updates by @bjmcsherry
Our audience across all networks grew by 369 followers (net – i.e. minus unfollows) last week. That brings our total audience to 2,038,089 followers.
We had good engagement overall with many of our campaigns including the ‘WordPress 6.0 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 3′ and ‘WordPress 6.0 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)’ news posts, and ‘WP 5.9 Pinterest embeds’ posts in some of our best examples throughout the week. Overall, the numbers for the week look like this:
Update from @jpantani
Our next Coffee break will be on 5 May 2022 at 18:30/ 6.30pm UTC, facilitated by @megphillips91. This bi-weekly social coffee break is held by the Make Marketing team for all WordPress Marketing contributors, and occasional guests. Stop by and meet some of the friendly faces marketing WordPress.
Follow this Google Calendar with meetings, collaborations, and social activities. We also list important dates in this Forthcoming Diary Dates post.
Next Marketing Meeting: Wednesday 11 May 2022, 15:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team meeting in the #marketing channel on Slack. Add items or async updates to the GitHub card for next week.
