Jenni McKinnon 9:00 am on January 22, 2024
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Notes: Marketing Team meeting, 16 January 2024

Please add any comments on the related Marketing Tasks GitHub issue or in the #marketing channel on the Make WordPress 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/..

  • This meeting was organized on 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 #346
  • Attendance:

Team news

  • The Make WordPress Marketing Team Reps for 2024 have been voted in.

WordPress publications

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/ social media updates

  • No updates were provided this week.

New issues

  • [AMPLIFY]: Early opportunities to help test 6.5 features #345
  • The Month in WordPress: January 2024 Edition #343

Recently updated issues

This is not a list of all issues from the Marketing Team GitHub in Slack. This is a compilation of items that had discussion in Slack during the week.

  • Marketing Team management
    • Marketing Team 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. election process #323
      • Updated to include the elected Team Reps for 2024.
  • Cross-team collaboration
    • Modify the text on #5ftF as an individual contributor’s role has changed. #317
      • In progress for another update in about a month.
    • Request: Learn monthly GA stats report for Training #338
  • Project marketing
    • The Month in WordPress: January 2024 Edition #343
      • Edits are needed by 6 February, 2024 at 14:00 UTC.
    • [AMPLIFY]: Early opportunities to help test 6.5 features #345

Closing soon

  • Help create a plan for short form video on Tik Tok #114  AND Develop shortform video content and related copy with Learn Team #187
  • #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks campaign #220
  • Share and help collect #WPPhotos stories #238
  • Celebrating Pride Month and WordPress Diversity #240

Recently closed

  • WordPress.org/news post on the Create BlockBlock Block 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. Theme 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 #341

Open floor

  • No new issues we presented this week.

Next steps

  • Our next meeting is 23 January, 2024 at 15:00 UTC.
  • GitHub card for the next meeting: #354

Note: This post is backdated to the correct Notes posting date of January 22, 2024, but it was published on February 5, 2024.

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