Update May 6, 2024: The Make Marketing blog is temporarily closed to new activity. Current marketing focus and processesare shifting to a new experimental project called WordPress Media Corps. Check out the WordPress Media Corps Initial Roadmap to learn more.
Any marketing contributors wanting to participate or follow along with this new project can join the WP Media Corps site and Slack channel.
Work on the Showcase remains open to contributions, and marketing amplification requests can be made on GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/. For any other ideas or discussions unrelated to these contributing areas, you can use this GitHub discussion area.
Blog: Do you have a favorite WordPress blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.? If so, tell us why! If not, tell us why not! (Note: It doesn’t have to be a coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. block) Post your response on a WordPress website and link it in the comments.
Design: Redesign the WP.org homepage (or a subpage of your choosing). Go wild! No explanations required. Share your creation wherever you like (website, social media, digital art account, etc.), tag it #WP20, and post the link in the comments.
Photograph: Take a picture of some WordPress or tech-related swag (stickers, merch, fan art, etc.). Submit it to the WordPress Photo Directory. Once it’s approved, share the link to your photo in the comments.
Note: You can share context in your comment if you like, but don’t forget to include the link as specified in each prompt.
If none of these actions work for you, feel free to make your own WordPress-focused action. Anyone who shares at least one action as a comment on a #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks post before or on May 27 will have the achievement acknowledged by the Marketing team. Folx who share an action on all 20 posts before WordCamp US in August 2023 will get an additional acknowledgement of their accomplishment.
