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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Hello, new contributor! Welcome to the Make Marketing Team. The following training material is provided to help onboard new contributors to the team. If you are new to the WordPress project, we highly recommend checking out the Contributing to WordPress courses provided by the training team. These courses will help you on your WordPress journey, no matter where it takes you.
While going through these resources, you may have questions or may need help with setting up or using tools. Please feel free to post in the Global WordPress #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/. anytime.
First of all, thank you for considering to join our team as a contributor. We warmly welcome you aboard. This page will help you familiarize yourself with the WordPress project, the community, and the tools we use. To give you a head start at your own terms, we have created our Contributing Made Fun & Easy on-demand video training.
In this video training, you’ll discover what the WordPress project is, and how thousands of contributors build, maintain, and grow both the software and the community.
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This video can help you set up your WordPress.org ID and log in to the Make WordPress channel on Slack. It has captions which will display within the video
Additional resources
Slack is the primary method of communication for the Marketing team, and where you can participate in regular meetings and events. The following video will help you get the most out of this tool.
Additional resources
Project collaboration, specifically for written content, is done through Google Docs. This video will help familiarize you with this tool.
The Marketing team uses 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/ for managing tasks and assets.
The main Marketing Task board is located at https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/21
Marketing tasks are typically divided into two types: Issues and Discussions. Discussions are most often used before an action has been decided on. Issues are created when a clear action is needed.
If you need additional training resources, lab.github.com has several free courses available for learning. Courses that will be specifically helpful for contributing to this team are:
Do I need to be a developer in order to contribute?
Not at all. Everyone is welcome to participate. There are many different ways to contribute, especially to the Marketing team. You might own and manage websites built on WordPress, or use WordPress to create content, run a business or design websites in general. You may be involved in online marketing or search engine optimisation.
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