The Make Marketing team is currently inactive. Work on the WordPress Showcase remains open to contributions, and marketing amplification requests can be made via 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/. For those with marketing talents, we currently recommend connecting with the Community team to promote WordPress events or with one of the many other Make teams. For any other ideas or discussions unrelated to these contributing areas, you can use the GitHub discussion area or Make Slack.
We don't yet have automated contribution tracking for the Marketing team. Sponsors, recruiters, and team reps can't see who is shipping verified work — only a list of people who opted in.
You could lead this. Here is the path:
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Review the team handbook
Read it cover to cover. Understand what this team works on, how decisions get made, who the team reps are, and what existing recognition looks like.
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Join the team on Slack
Most coordination happens in
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Attend one or two team meetings
Meeting times are in the handbook. Show up, introduce yourself, listen. Do not propose anything yet — just get a sense of the rhythm and the open work.
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Propose a metrics discussion
Once you have earned standing in the team, propose a discussion (in a meeting or async) to define what counts as a verified contribution. What types of work? What weights? Which signals should be tracked, and which intentionally ignored?
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Collect, store, and cache the agreed metrics
Wire the agreed signals into the wp.org data pipeline alongside the existing Trac and GitHub aggregation. Add per-source ingest, indexed storage, and hour-cached aggregation matching the existing pattern.
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Wire this page up
Update
inc/contribution-metrics.phpto include the team and its new data source, then add the team's slug toTEAMS_WITH_DATA. This page will switch from this guide to the contributor directory automatically.