Agenda: Global Marketing Team Meeting, 29 September 2021

The meeting will start at 14:00 UTC in the marketing channel on the Make WordPress Slack.

We include more detail and links in our agenda posts to help those who want to contribute further to the meeting in their own timezone. It also helps provide more time in meetings for collaboration work and an easier point of reference for the links. After the meeting, a link to the Slack meeting is added to this agenda to support asynchronous contribution in the 48 hours after the weekly live session.

  1. Welcome
  2. (i) Attendance – who is with us? (ii) Welcoming new people, returners and visitors to the channel
    Get involved information
    Setting up Make WordPress Slack and WordPress.org accounts
  3. Follow-ups, note taker recruitment, actions
    a) Notes links for review – 22 September 202115 September 20218 September 2021
    b) Admin recruitment – Would you like to help with the weekly agenda links? Let us know in the Marketing 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/.. It is a great way to get to know what’s happening in the project. We continue to recruit notetakers. Come and chat about how you can join the rotas.
    c) GitHub – thanks to everyone who came to the introduction to 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/ repositories and updates from the testing and pilots, the background to how we arrived at using GitHub, and our tools for our new contributors. Further sessions will be announced for October and November. The form continues to be available for expressions of interest for future sessions and to help identify attendees’ familiarity with GitHub.
  4. Updates relating to other Make Teams
    • CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-related items (including releases, FSE, GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/)
      • Ideas slot: 5.8 and minor releases: social media amplification pack further promotion opportunities and updating
      • Request from the Testing team: support extenders make their test suites compatible with the modernization of the WordPress Core PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. Test Suites. What the changes mean and step-by-step instructions are available at: Changes to the WordPress Core PHP Test Suite (27 September). Volunteer opportunity: to help facilitate ideas on this, please do volunteer. We will add this to GitHub and link to this for the meeting]
      • For awareness:
        • Roadmap for 5.8 minor releases; Announcement of 5.8.1 release (9 September)
        • 5.9 planning round-up (3 September)
        • Implementing a webfonts API in WordPress core (29 September)
        • Creating the widget group block (22 September)
        • What’s next in Gutenberg? (Mid-September 2021)
        • Discussion from the 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) Team on improving the contrast accessibility warning in the 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. Editor – GitHub issue
    • Community Team
      • Month in WordPress – publication 4 October 2021, deadline 2 October
      • Deadline for MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. newsletter – next deadline for marketing, 11 October 2021
      • For information:
    • Design Team: internal user information: proposed changes to the P2 Make Team blogs (16 September)
    • Documentation Team: new workflow for reporting issues, using a new GitHub Repository
  5. Collaboration/ Discussion
  6. Any other Marketing Team business
  7. Diary Dates
    • Coffee breaks resumes this week on 30 September 2021, at the new time of 18:30 UTC
    • 6 October 2021 – Marketing and Training Team collaboration on wording following the Learn WordPress Needs Assessment

Additional links and preparation for the agenda (Make WordPress Slack – Marketing).

Help during meetings

If you need accessibility or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel on Slack. We will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

Weekly agenda planning

If your Make Team is working or planning something that could be shared with Marketing or have a follow-up, please let us know in the Make WordPress Slack channel on a Monday. We will be shortly sharing a new form to help teams log forthcoming interview requests.

To take part in the follow-ups and agenda planning, please share your interest in the Make WordPress Marketing Slack. You can also follow agenda planning in this developing Rolling Tasks board on the Marketing Team’s GitHub.

Props to @webcommsat for follow-ups and the agenda preparation, to @mloncar, @lmurillo, @courane01, @hellofromtonya, @harishanker for submitting materials and discussions, and to @meher and @nalininonstopnewsuk for proofreading.

#agenda, #learnwp, #marketing, #marketing-team

Notes: Global Marketing Meeting, 8 September 2021

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.

Help info for new contributors – For actions listed below, some of the items go direct to the discussion on Slack. If you are having problems with accessing Slack, you can add your interest in volunteering on this post. There are also videos to help you set up a Slack account to contribute to WordPress.

1. Welcome, Introduction

These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to 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. 

Get involved – starter tasks for new and returning contributors, and those who have pledged to support the team and need assistance to get started.

2. Contributors

  1. Attendees Slack Thread
  2. New people and returners to the channel

3. Meeting Notes

Last week’s notes can be read on this P2 post. Thank you @OGlekler for working on last week’s notes, and a reminder to those who have notes pending to please finish them up as soon as possible and let @lmurillom or @meher know when they’re done.

Rota for drafting notes:

b. Notes group recruitment

  • You can volunteer to contribute to notes for future meetings, please contact @lmurillom and @meher.
  • Please note that the initial draft is needed by Friday 17.00 UTC each week to help with actions and follow-ups that might be needed.
  • After every meeting, we now add a link to the Slack meeting at the top of the weekly agenda on the p2 (make Marketing Team blog).

c. GitHub 

Update from: @meher

  • We are moving tasks from TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. to this 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/, and you can start following them there. There will be a demo on 17 September 2021 at 16:00 UTC. 
  • We will be running the session live in response to feedback from contributors about the type of help they would like. Please register using this form to attend this session.

Actions:

  • We need testers and people who can write usage documents for the wiki. Please reply in this slack thread.
  • If you are more familiar with tasks in the team or have been facilitating a task, can you help with the migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. of the files to GitHub and set up ‘how-to’ information? Please reply in the thread

If you need 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) or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel on Slack. We will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

4. Updates relating to other Make Teams

a. Documentation

Update from: @milana_cap

  • Docs has a new way for reporting issues with docs. @milana_cap will publish a post about it so it can be shared with other teams.

B. CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (including releases, FSE)

Update from: @annezazu and @webcommsat  

C. Polyglots

Update from: @webcommsat, @webtechpooja @nalininonstopnewsuk

  • WordPress Translation Day runs from 1 to 30 September 2021
  • Call for Nominations
  • Call for Local Event organisers
  • Local mini-events for #WPTranslationDay are being added to this page
  • Global events for WordPress Translation Day
  • An email campaign to raise awareness amongst MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. organizers has been sent.

D. Training

Update from: @azhiyadev 

E. Community

Update from:  @webcommsat @jillbinder @dansoschin

5. Any other Marketing Team business

A. Onboarding

Update from: @oglekler

Actions: 

  • If you can help with a language that is not in this playlist, contact @oglekler to find out how to get started contributing in your own language.

B. Social Media Promotions

Update from: @lmurillom

  • Thank you to those who amplified the posts we’ve put up on social media in the past week!  

Actions:

C. Contributor Ladder/ Journey

Update from: @webcommsat

  • The Team reps and projects and actions group have a collaboration session with the new sponsored contributors from Automattic next week.

Actions:

  • If you are new to the team and would like to join one of the team’s introductory or collaboration sessions,please let us know in this slack thread, and we will share dates of future events with you.
  • The contributor ladder/ journey working document is in GitHub in the Mapping board. Please do add your comments.  

6. Diary dates

Please note this week there will be no coffee break as we are reviewing everyone’s preferred dates and times.

Upcoming Diary Dates are in this dedicated post

A reminder about our Google Calendar with meetings, collaborations, and social activities.

Thank you to @webcommsat for facilitating the meeting and everyone who attended.

#marketing, #marketing-team

Notes: Global Marketing Meeting 1 September 2021

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.

1. Welcome, introduction

These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to 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. 

  1. The meeting discussions on the Marketing team on Slack can be found at this Slack thread
  2. Meeting Agenda
  3. Meeting led / facilitated by: @webcommsat, @meher, @lmurillom, @nalininonstopnewsuk
  4. Meeting notes: @oglekler, @lmurillom and @meher
  5. Follow up actions: projects and actions group 

Get involved – starter tasks for new and returning contributors, and those who have pledged to support the team and need assistance to get started.

2. Contributors

  1. Attendees Slack Thread
  2. New people and returners to the channel
  3. Welcome message can be found on this thread.
    1. Get involved information
    2. Setting up Make WordPress Slack and WordPress.org accounts
    3. Examples of starter tasks
    4. Section ‘Get started’ on GitHub 

3. Meeting Notes

3a. You will find the latest notes in our Notes Document for review. The link to the document can be found in this slack thread

Thank you @ugyen for working on last week’s notes, and a reminder to those who have notes pending to please finish them up as soon as possible and let @lmurillom or @meher know when they’re done.

If you need 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) or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel on Slack. We will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

Rota for drafting notes:

8 September 2021: @majaloncar
15 September 2021 @femkreations

3b. Notes group recruitment / Action

  1. You can volunteer to contribute to notes for future meetings, please contact @lmurillom and @meher in this slack thread
  2. Please note that the initial draft is needed by Friday 17.00 UTC each week to help with actions and follow-ups that might be needed

After every meeting, we now add a link to the start of the meeting in slack at the top of the weekly agenda on the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. – MakeWordPres Marketing Team blog.

3c. GitHub

We are moving tasks to this tool, and you can start following them there. There will be a demo in September 2021. More details with date and time to be announced soon.

Thank you to @tantienhime, @arpitgshah, and @femkreations who volunteered to join tasks in this area.

4. Updates relating to other Make Teams

1. Community updates

  • Thanks to everyone who reshared #WPDiversity updates.  
  • The Month in WordPress will be published on 2 September 2021. 
  • The Month in WordPress has been published, please read it at this link.
  • WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US will take place online this year, on Friday, October 1 2021. Tickets are free and available on the WCUS site

2. CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (including releases, FSE) updates

  • Social media amplification pack for WordPress Release 5.8. @cbringmann or @harishanker just following up if the link to the pack was added to the 5.8 new page.
  • Fill this form for, Informal media monitoring and How do you search for WordPress Release Information
  • Tell us what’s your favorite feature for 5.8 
  • WordPress 5.8.1 RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. day is today, September 1, 2021.
  • Resharing @annezazu post from FSE channel – The monthly 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 meeting in #themereview will take place on September 1, 2021 at 16:00 UTC. More information can be found in this slack thread.

3. Polyglot-related marketing updates

4. Training team updates

5. WPTranslationDay collaboration opportunity

  • If you have a couple of hours in the next week to help with social media posts on this, please let @lmurillom and @Nalininonstopnewsuk know in this slack thread
  • WordPress Translation Day, which takes place across September 2021, is using a different slack this year. We will need to make the spreadsheets etc available to any additional collaborators joining us from marketing. 

Action

  • Please follow the WPTranslation day social accounts to get updates on all the events: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram
  • Please Share, Retweet and Like the posts directly from the official channels, instead of copy-pasting the text and publishing as a new post. You can also add your own message when you share so we can get a variety of posts. Thanks!
  • Email drafts from @EidolonNight @erica and @harishanker for an email campaign on WPTranslationDay for feedback can be found in this slack thread. UPDATE: this has been now completed.

6. Any other Marketing Team business

a. Onboarding videos

Update from the task group via @meher

  • Thank you to @webtechpooja for helping in adding the transcript for the Hindi onboarding video.

b. Any Other Business

  • If anyone has any update on their task which they are working on, please do let the team know in this slack thread or in the main channel of threads are difficult.

7. Diary dates

Please note this week there will be no coffee break as we are reviewing its dates and times.

If you have still not selected your preferred time slot please do submit this form. The last day for submission is 6 September 2021.

Upcoming Diary Dates are in this dedicated post

A reminder about our Google Calendar with meetings, collaborations, and social activities.

Thank you to @webcommsat @nalininonstopnewsuk and @lmurillom for facilitating the meeting and everyone who attended.

#gwptd, #fse, #marketing, #marketing-team

Notes: Global Marketing meeting 25 August 2021

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.

1. Welcome, introduction

These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to 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. 

  1. The meeting discussions on the Marketing team on Slack can be found at this Slack thread
  2. Meeting Agenda: https://wp.me/p72A3H-23M  
  3. Meeting led by@lmurillom and @vimes1984
  4. Meeting notes: @ugyensupport and @meher
  5. Proofread: @meher, @webcommsat
  6. Meeting Preparation: @webcommsat 
  7. Follow up actions: projects and actions group 

2. Contributors New and Returning

  1. Attendees Slack Thread
  2. New people and returners to the channel

3. Notes

3a) Meeting Notes

A big thanks to everyone for coordinating and editing drafts from past meeting notes which will be up shortly in the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/.. As a few people are on personal holidays and others are unwell due to Covid, we are a little behind on Notes and will post updates in the coming weeks.

Thank you to @yvettesonneveld for working on drafting last week’s notes.

A reminder to check the draft notes is circulated at the meeting every week. Please review and check your WordPress.org ID is listed on collaborations that you have actively contributed to. 

We rely on this to update the final notes and to put into our charts to show where we need extra contributors, and how we are having an input and impact onto the work assigned/requested from other teams.

Rota for drafting notes:

3b) Notes group recruitment

  • If you would like to contribute by preparing notes for future meetings, please contact @lmurillom and/or @meher
  • Initial draft deadline: Friday 17:00 UTC each week to help with actions and follow-ups that might be needed.
  • We are excited to continue to expand our contributors who are helping draft the notes!

3c) 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/ 

  • We are moving tasks to this tool, and you can start following them there
  • @vimes1984 and @webcommsat will be doing a demo showing what we have been building with your feedback, and the issues it is hoped to help solve. This live demo will be in September 2021.

4. Tasks, Working Groups, and Team Celebration

4a) Community – WPDiversity

  • Thank you to those who amplified the #WPDiversity Allyship event and Online Meetups on social media.  
  • There is another Diversity Workshop this Friday, from 5.00PM – 6.30PM UTC which we’re currently promoting.

#OnlineWPMeetup

  • There is a Mega MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. tomorrow, which will cover topics like Developing for the 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. Editor and Full Site Editing. It’s included in this week’s roundup! 
  • Actions: thanks to @afshanadiya, @mcihelleames, and @ugyensupport for volunteering to help with drafting social. Please liaise with @lmurillom

Actions

Please engage with and share:

4b) CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and FSE

Marketing Materials to support core and FSE

4c) Polyglots

  • The “WordPress Translation Day 2021” event is between September 1-30. 
  • We are looking for local teams, Meetup groups, or any translation contributors to host mini-events during the month of September 2021. Read this post for more details.

4d) Test Team

  • Call for volunteers: The Test Team is reviewing the testing instructions scattered across the Make blogs (and TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/., GitHub etc) to make sure that the instructions are correct, up-to-date, etc  
  • Anyone can start at any time to add links into the audit spreadsheet (referenced in the post). Team reps will be updated every few weeks about the progress
  • Read this post for more details.

4e) Training Team 

Update via: @azhiyadev

  1. Feedback requested on Learner Achievements on Profiles. This would show course completions on your .org profile in a new tab. Request for marketing to raise awareness of feedback wanted on this post.
  2. There will host at least one subtitling working session for content on LearnWP in the last half of September in conjunction with WPTranslatorDay. Date soon to be announced.
  3. We anticipate having an Introduction to WordPress course ready to promote near the end of September 2021 @arasae

5. Any other Marketing Team business

6. Forthcoming Diary Dates

Upcoming Diary Dates are in this dedicated post

NOTE: 

  • As mentioned in this slack thread, the Coffee Break from September 2021 will be twice a month. A lot of people are finding the current time too late or early for them. A Google Form has been created to help find a time to work for most people. Please fill in your preference timeslot in this form. Link to the form can be found in this slack thread. Form will be open 1 September 2021. There is also an informal coffee break drop-in after the main weekly meeting.

Thanks to @EidolonNight for volunteering to co-facilitate some of these coffee breaks.

#learnwp, #marketing, #wptranslationday

Notes: Global Marketing meeting 18 August 2021

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.

  1. Welcome, introduction
  1. These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to 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. 
    1. The meeting discussions on the Marketing team on Slack can be found at this Slack thread
    2. Meeting Agenda
    3. Meeting led by: @webcommsat
    4. Meeting notes: @yvettesonneveld
    5. Follow up actions: projects and actions group 
  2. Attendees Slack Thread

2. Contributors

A big thanks to everyone for coordinating and editing drafts from past meeting notes which will be up shortly in the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/.. As a few people are on personal holidays and others are unwell due to Covid, we have some delayed final notes on the P2 blog.Please do let us know if you can help.

Thank you to @meher, @lmurillom and @webcommsat for drafting and publishing last week’s notes.

A reminder to check the draft notes is circulated at the meeting every week. Please review and check your WordPress.org ID is listed on collaborations that you have actively contributed on, identify where we need extra contributors, and explore how we are having an input and impact onto the work assigned/requested from other teams.

Rota for drafting notes:

Actions

You can volunteer to contribute to notes for future meetings, please contact @lmurillom and @meher. Please note that the initial draft is needed by Friday 17.00 UTC each week to help with actions and follow-ups that might be needed. We are excited to continue to expand our contributors who are helping draft the notes!

4. Tasks, Working Groups, and Team Celebration

Global Social Media Promotions

Update via @lmurillom

Thank you to those who amplified the upcoming #WPDiversity Allyship event and Online Meetups on social media. If you would like to shadow how we write copy and plan posting on social, the document link is in the thread.

Actions

Please engage with and share:

We need some more hands! Please reply to this thread if you have experience writing copy for social media. 

Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11yAywSvulW9eGKrq1_v6biLdsvea_yr87nRo7yRHqOM/edit?usp=sharing 

A11yship event

Update from: @nalininonstopnewsuk  

There will be a second chance to attend the Allyship event later in the year.
@nalininonstopnewsuk: It is really valuable to help promote the importance of these events and work, so please do put yourself forward if it could be something you can help with. If more of the team members just reshare the post by clicking retweet, this would be a positive step. 

Actions

MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. Newsletter

Update via: @meher  

  • Read the Aug 2021 Meetup newsletter on this link.

WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., releases and FSE updates 

Update from: @chloebringman @dandoshin @annezazu

MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.

  • Thanks to @webcommsat for working with meta to resolve the @here access for team reps and update one of the posts
  • Actions:
    • @meherbala is looking into automated meeting reminders similar to what the WP Diversity team uses
    • As soon as some team members have access to the Update page, we will start publishing the monthly team updates again. When team resources are not as stretched, we hope to go back to weekly updates again

WordPress Translation Day 2021 updates 

Update from: @nalininonstopnewsuk

  • @nalininonstopnewsuk shared that several members of our team have volunteered to be in the organizing team of WordPress Translation Day 2021. 
  • If you are planning to hold a translation contributor event for your locale team, stay tuned for more updates

Training and LearnWP

Update from: @courtney and @Hauwa Abashiya

  • Please read Badges on profiles and share your thoughts. Would badges for completed courses help existing folks continue ongoing learning?  Would it help in hiring folks?
  • Please share your thoughts on Brand guidelines – particularly if you’re a 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/theme devs/owners
  • Captioning for accessibility – working on ensuring all videos on Learn have captions.  Next month a working session for translating (subtitling) this will happen during WP Translation Day as well.
  • Tentatively a course on getting started with WordPress will be released within just a few weeks. 
  • If you’re a Windows users, please help us out by testing setups for local development

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/

Update from: @webcommsat

  • We have had a couple of volunteers so far to help with writing wiki material to use GitHub for marketing and thanks to those. Meher and Chris will be in touch shortly. We wanted to make sure everyone who has experience of GitHub who wanted to volunteer could still do so and start people off together.
  • We have followed up with previous task coordinators on cards from TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. if they would like to continue coordinating those tasks which are still relevant. With covid pressures, many have responded saying they would like to but currently can not do so until the pandemic eases. They are happy to be involved in the task though. If you have a particular area of expertise and would like to go through a task in one of our drop-in sessions on this channel, please do so. 

4. Forthcoming Diary Dates

If you need 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) or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel on Slack. We will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

Upcoming Diary Dates are in this dedicated post

A reminder about our Google Calendar with meetings, collaborations and social activities

#learnwp, #marketing, #marketing-team, #onlinewpmeetup

Agenda: Global marketing meeting 25 August 2021

Update: Link to the meeting on Slack

This week the meeting will be abridged and last 30 mins due to people being away and the pandemic. It will take place 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/., at 14:00 UTC. This week’s meeting on Wednesday will be facilitated by @lmurillom and @vimes1984. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the agenda and last week’s tasks/ work.

  1. Welcome
  2. (i) Attendance (ii) New people and returners to the channel
    Get involved information
    Setting up Make WordPress Slack and WordPress.org accounts
    Examples of starter tasks
  3. Follow-ups, note taker recruitment, actions
    a) Notes links for review
    b) Notes group recruitment
    c) GitHub – we are moving tasks to this tool, and you can start following them there. There will be a demo in September.
  4. Updates relating to other Make Teams: 
    1. community (including WPDiversity)
    2. coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (including releases, FSE)
    3. polyglots – call for local events for WordPress Translation Day
    4. testing team – volunteers call for audit and update testing instructions on Make sites
  5. Any other Marketing Team business
  6. Diary dates

#marketing, #marketing-agenda, #marketing-team, #social-media

Agenda: Global Marketing Meeting 18 August 2021

Update: Link to the meeting 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/. after the meeting. 

The weekly meeting will take place in the Marketing channel on the Make WordPress Slack, at 14:00 UTC.

  1. Welcome
  2. (i) Attendance (ii) New people and returners to the channel
    Get involved information
    Setting up Make WordPress Slack and WordPress.org accounts
    Examples of starter tasks
  3. Follow-ups, note taker recruitment, actions
  4. Updates relating to other Make Teams: coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (including releases, FSE), polyglots (including WPTranslationDay), community (including WPDiversity), training and Learn WP
  5. GitHub 
  6. Any other Marketing Team business
  7. Diary dates

#5-8#marketing#marketing-team#social-media

Post meeting: calls for volunteers to share from other teams

#marketing

NOTES: Global Marketing Meeting – 11 August 2021

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.

1. Welcome, introduction, new contributors

  1. These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to 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.
    The meeting discussions on the Marketing team on Slack can be found at this Slack thread
    1. Meeting Agenda: https://wp.me/p72A3H-22B
    2. Meeting led by: @webcommsat @nalininonstopnewsuk @meher
    3. Meeting notes: @meher, @lmurillom and @nalininonstopnewsuk
    4. Follow up actions: projects and actions group 
  2. Attendees Slack Thread

Get involved – starter tasks for new and returning contributors, and those who have pledged to support the team and need assistance to get started.

2. Meeting Notes

A big thanks to everyone for coordinating and editing drafts from past meeting notes which will be up shortly in the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/.. As a few people are on personal holidays and others are unwell due to Covid, we are a little behind on finalizing and transferring Notes from google docs and will post updates in the coming weeks.

Thank you to @lmurillom for drafting and publishing last week’s notes and @webcommsat for preparing the agenda with the team and other Make Teams.

A reminder to check the draft notes is circulated at the meeting every week. Please review and check your WordPress.org ID is listed on collaborations that you have actively contributed to. We rely on this to update the final notes and to put them into our charts to show where we need extra contributors, and how we are having an input and impact on the work assigned/requested from other teams.

Rota for drafting notes:

Actions

You can volunteer to contribute to notes for future meetings, please contact @lmurillom and @meher. Please note that the initial draft is needed by Friday 17.00 UTC each week to help with actions and follow-ups that might be needed. We are excited to continue to expand our contributors who are helping draft the notes!

3. Action 

@webcommsat asked if anyone else has an action from recent weeks/months to update on, that did not come up later in the agenda under specific make teams. Please do feel free to add your updates in this slack thread.

4. Tasks, Working Groups, and Team Celebration

5.8 Social Media Pack Collaboration

Update from: @meher 

  • Read the social media pack published in this post
  • Thank you to everyone who contributed to this social media pack. The collaboration task is to create an HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. click to share links only for Twitter for each of the social posts mentioned on the pack. More details on this task can be found in this Slack thread.
  • @eidolonnight had some concerns about the click-to-tweet implementation. More details can be found in this Slack thread.
  • @webcommsat mentioned that as with amplification packs, the idea is that people will adapt the text for their networks. In terms of the click to share, this is something we are testing only to see if it can work and easily enable adaptation as there are new features  coming on Twitter and Facebook. More details can be found in this Slack thread.

Actions:

Other collaboration 

Update from: @webcommsat

Informal Media Monitoring 

Updates from the task group via: @webcommsat

  • It has been suggested that we create a form for this to populate the Google spreadsheet. 
  • More details for this can be found in this Slack thread.
  • @femkreations has volunteered to work on this task.

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/

Updates from the task group via: @webcommsat and @meher

  • GitHub WPMarketing homepage link
  • You will see that thanks to the feedback and testing we have updated names of repositories and with GitHub’s new functions it will lend itself even more to taking over the majority of roles of our TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. board that we have been changing due to ongoing changes in the free account. 
  • Thanks for all the reports of cards being deleted, which sadly we have no control over. But the GitHub setup will avoid a lot of this and we have done a lot of testing with those who need to give us information too, especially from CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
  • Thank you to @webcommsat and @vimes1984 for having a vision and setting up the WP Marketing Team GitHub. Also thank you to @OGlekler @lmurillom @femkreations @marks99 @tantienhime @nalininonstopnewsuk @vimes1984 and @webcommsat for attending and contributing to the Github meeting during the last week.
  • If you want to join any of the meetings and contribute or shadow someone, all details can be found in our calendar and our main #marketing Slack channel.

Internal actions spreadsheet:

  • continue to use this to help re-find messages on slack and information provided by other teams. If you love spreadsheets and want to help with this, come and join the projects and actions groups. Volunteers needed: two of our previous contributors are currently not able to give time due to the pandemic, and we would appreciate an extra hand as we work on how this integrates with how we use GitHub.
    More info and links at https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1628693861205500

Actions

  • We will be running live walkthroughs of GitHub starting next week and looking for volunteers to help write wiki content to help those less familiar with GitHub and aimed at specific tasks. 
  • We know from our tests that this proved to be more effective in helping people use and update the tasks rather than generic help information. 
  • Can you help with this? Please let us know in this Slack thread.

Social Promotions

Update from the task group via: @lmurillom

Actions

E) Any marketing and communications related updates from Core, Community, Polyglots, Training

Core team

Please share this later call on Full Site Editing. Thanks to @annezazu for highlighting.

Training Team 

Updates from the Training Team Reps via: @courane01

  • Who can Learn help – think of it like our audience/user type/customer avatarAvatar An avatar is an image or illustration that specifically refers to a character that represents an online user. It’s usually a square box that appears next to the user’s name.
  • We’d like to collaborate with marketing around the keywords for lesson plans. These plans will form the basis of other media content on the site. Each month we’ll have several new lessons. Ideally SEO research should be done in advance. Ex: Query loop lesson plan – what keywords are people using for this functionality? And GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ has renamed this already I think, so I’d expect the new name in 5.9.
  • Content audit plugin request – did we want to finish how that proposal is drafted?  Target audience: any devs (ideally existing dev teams) to help build this out. We met about this roughly a month ago – before the revision tool preview.
  • We’ve got an upcoming work day for captioning all the videos on Learn for 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). Would you like to help promote that?
  • The UX audit survey closes on the 13th.
  • APAC training team parallel meeting survey – likely starting this meeting next week
  • More details on the SEO phrases for Lesson plans can be found in this Slack thread.

Polyglots TeamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. & WPTD Team/ WordPress Translation Day 2021

Update from: @meher and @webtechpooja

Community Team/ Diverse Speaker Training Team Promotions

Update from: @nalininonstopnewsuk 

  • Please be part of that, and you can start by retweeting and resharing #WPDiversity WordCamp Facebook, WordCamp Twitter Post and LinkedIn
  • WPDiversity Allyship event on 19 August 2021
  • Please book to attend if you are a WordPress event organizer. You do not need any pre-existing knowledge. It is an important part of the project. 
  • Real inclusion does not happen by accident or automatically, and there are so many ways it can make a difference.
  • Thank you to @jillbinder @nalininonstopnewsuk, @webcommsat and @lmurillom who have worked on the Diversity update.

Actions

  • If you have questions about the event as a prospective attendee after reading the Community post and the event page, please let @jillbinder know. 
  • If this is an area you are interested in supporting, please contact @nalininonstopnewsuk in the Slack channel or on the p2 blog post. 

Community Team-led/ MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. Newsletter

Update from: @nalininonstopnewsuk  

Actions

Marketing Team/ People of WordPress deadlines

Update from task group via: @meher

A lot of people had volunteered for this task but we have not heard back from everyone. We do understand that there may have been job changes including outside the sector, impact from the pandemic, work crises or family demands. We appreciate letting the team know on tasks please and we will try and support anyone needing extra assistance on the task. We wish everyone well and hope they are safe.

Actions

  • We need volunteers for this task. If you have experience in writing and editing and can help us catch up, please do let us know in this thread or in coming weeks in the marketing channel on slack. Experienced copy-editor and image editing help will be particularly appreciated.

5. Any other business

A) Visual indicator for skills required for tasks

Anna: can we create or use an emoji to add to each task update on slack to show what skill levels were needed. This could work like the idea proposed for GitHub tooI and what was done by the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe contributor team this year.

Actions
Contributors needed to help create this working with the contributor ladder.

Contributors needed to help further with the GitHub board being developed and tested.

B) Returning more to pre-covid information provision for weekly meetings

Changes the team made in response to feedback and requests for help:

  • adding more info into our slack meetings in response to requests for this so that people can contribute async due to timezone issues made more difficult with home and work changes caused by the pandemic and lockdowns/ self-isolating
  • this also means that it can take a lot longer to run through the meetings
  • Solution proposed: we have piloted adding a lot more of the info into the agendas on the blog site and, where possible, asking task updates to add to the google doc ahead of the meeting. This also reduces any pressure people feel to type or dictate fast during the meeting. We would like to try and return to meetings completing within the hour and any big collaboration moved to the end of the meeting making it easier for people joining from other teams. Further details in meeting slack https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1628696923251000
    Feedback requested on solution: if this causes anyone a difficulty or if particular information would still be useful during the meeting.

4. Forthcoming Diary Dates

If you need accessibility or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel on Slack. We will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

Upcoming Diary Dates are in this dedicated post

A reminder about our Google Calendar with meetings, collaborations and social activities.

Agenda: Global Marketing Team Meeting, 11 Aug 2021

Update: link to the start of the marketing meeting on slack.


The weekly meeting will take place 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/., at 14:00 UTC. We publish a link to the Slack discussion on this post after the meeting.

Notes for 4 Aug 2021 can be read on this post.

  1. Welcome
  2. (i) Attendance (ii) New people and returners to the channel
    Get involved information
    Setting up Make WordPress Slack and WordPress.org accounts
    Examples of starter tasks
  3. Follow-ups, note taker recruitment, actions
  4. Updates on WordPress Release 5.8 and FSE (if available) and Collaborations
  5. GitHub updates
  6. Any marketing and communications related updates from coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., polyglots, training
  7. Updates on People of WordPress deadlines
  8. Any other Marketing Team business
  9. Diary dates

#5-8, #marketing, #marketing-team, #social-media

Share about WordPress 5.8 on social media

Do you use WordPress, are you enjoying the new release, or just want to spread the message of this awesome platform and its community? Then this post is for you. This is part of the resources created for you by the WordPress community to amplify the benefits and excitement of new features and developments. On this post and links, we are focusing on all things 5.8.

In this pack, you will find social posts you can share and adapt on Twitter and Facebook. You can also use them as a base for LinkedIn or even easier, follow the WordPress Marketing Team LinkedIn group and reshare our posts on the release directly with your networks.

If you would like images to use with your social media posts or blogs, we have an image library 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/ which has a selection of release graphics already sized to help you.

Link for the images for Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

Link for the images for Instagram

How can I use this pack?

Through this social media pack edition, we particularly want to support WordPress MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. groups and developers who want to highlight what’s new and share the buzz about release features. We are also gathering in examples of how people use the new features. You can share your favorite feature by just completing this short form.

We have segmented social posts into broad audiences to help you find and adapt messages for your networks. Thanks to everyone who has been involved from the Marketing Team and others including CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., Documentation, Design and Training. Thanks to all who have given feedback and input into previous social media posts and FAQs on releases.

You can also share with us where you search for information on WordPress latest features in this form.

Can I translate these social media posts to use in my local language?

Definitely! Many locales translate the news release post and HelpHub documentation into their languages, so there may be translated links already available.

On GitHub, we also provide a version of this pack in a format which can be more easily translated into other languages or used by anyone who might have an issue with using the format on this post from an 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) perspective.

Will you be updating these posts?

We have also sharing a document version of these social media posts since the release launched on 20 July 2021, and we will continue to add to it. We will periodically update this blog post with new social messages you can use and adapt. If you have suggestions to be included, let us know on the #marketing channel on the MakeWordPress Slack.

Are there other resources we can use in our Meetups?

Yes we have a slide template, quick resources links, and more which will be available on this page later this week.

(A) Audience: Users

This section is aimed more at users who may have a very limited technical knowledge, and are keen to know more.

Do you want to create your own website? Use WordPress! Why? It’s easy to use and it’s a robust platform that can grow to support the needs of your business. Find out how to do it with #WordPress 5.8. https://wp.me/sZhYe-tatum


WordPress should be the first choice for your next online project! Why? You can create a website yourself that can grow to meet your future needs. Explore the latest #WordPress 5.8 release. https://wp.me/sZhYe-tatum

Did you know you can build even the most complex websites — with shopping carts, event bookings and more — with #WordPress? Check out the latest 5.8 release. https://wp.me/sZhYe-tatum

42% of the top sites on the web already use #WordPress. And you can build a site without writing a single line of code. Discover the latest 5.8 release. https://wp.me/sZhYe-tatum

WordPress is free, and it’s easy to use. Plus, it can grow with your needs, showcase your offering, and be an efficient way to run critical back-office functions. Discover its latest features in the 5.8 release.
https://wp.me/sZhYe-tatum

Did you know that #WordPress 5.8 makes it possible to build a complex site without adding a single line of code for many tasks? It’s free, simple and easy to use. Plus, it can adapt to meet your needs. Explore the most recent release. https://wp.me/sZhYe-tatum

Did you know that #WordPress powers 42% of the top ten million sites on the web? Explore all the features in the latest 5.8 release and find out why it’s the leading CMS.
https://wp.me/sZhYe-tatum

Presenting WordPress 5.8! The platform is a smart, adaptable CMS to meet the needs of your growing business. Discover the latest features in #WordPress to help you. https://wp.me/sZhYe-tatum

530 volunteers contributed to #WordPress 5.8. A flexible and scalable website management system and a robust platform to grow your online business! Find out more about its new great features.
https://wp.me/sZhYe-tatum 

The latest #WordPress 5.8 brings you even more ways to express your ideas without the need to know how to code. https://wp.me/sZhYe-tatum

Does adding related posts at the end of a blog post sounds hard? It’s actually really easy to do with the new Query loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. 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. in #WordPress 5.8. Find out more https://wordpress.org/support/article/query-loop-block/

(B) Audience: Agency

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 / theme developers working at agencies

Full Site Editing opens a new way for plugin and theme creators to provide style options for editors. Check out the Global Styles and Global Settings APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.. #BlockThemes https://wp.me/p2AvED-nlc

Full Site Editing brings new #RESTAPI endpoints for block-based widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. management. #WordPress https://wp.me/p2AvED-nmb

Do you gather system info from your clients? New integration is available to consolidate this with Site Health. Add your own interface to Site Health in #WordPress 5.8 and make use of the tab navigation. https://wp.me/p2AvED-njh

Does your plugin create a custom post typeCustom Post Type WordPress can hold and display many different types of content. A single item of such a content is generally called a post, although post is also a specific post type. Custom Post Types gives your site the ability to have templated posts, to simplify the concept.? Find out how templates can improve your content layout in #WordPress 5.8.

Block and theme authors, your work just got a little easier. Styles from the front-end can be dropped in with very little to adjust. Admin and content styles will stay within their boundaries in #WordPress 5.8. #BlockThemes https://wp.me/p2AvED-nlK

Plugin developers rejoice! Avoid accidental overwrites from plugin updates with the new Update URI plugin headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. in #WordPress 5.8. https://wp.me/p2AvED-nam

Start using blocks everywhere with these new Block Editor API changes in #WordPress 5.8. #BlockEditor
https://wp.me/p2AvED-ni8

Speed up your #WordPress theme by only loading necessary block styles. Check out the new should_load_separate_core_block_assets filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. in WordPress 5.8. #WordPressThemes
https://wp.me/p2AvED-noF

Cut down on asset requests with this new option for #WordPress 5.8 theme developers. It allows you to only load styles for blocks you use. #WordPressThemes https://wp.me/p2AvED-noF

As Internet Explorer 11 usage falls below 1%, it’s time to say goodbye. #WordPress 5.8 begins phase one of dropping support for #IE11 plan. https://wp.me/p2AvED-nlQ

(C) Audience: First time / limited experience plugin or theme developers

Building blocks? Now there’s a better way to register block types in #WordPress 5.8. #BlockEditor
https://wp.me/p2AvED-ni2

Have your plugins run into an update merge conflict? The new Update Plugin URI header in #WordPress 5.8 will prevent similarly named plugins from overwriting your plugin. #WordPressPlugin https://wp.me/p2AvED-nam

If you are an experienced theme developer, rejoice, and start using theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML., price block-styles loading enhancements, query block and much-much more straight away in #WordPress 5.8! Stay updated! #WordPressDev https://wp.me/p2AvED-nlc

Specific features in WordPress 5.8

These are just some of the benefits of using the latest version of the software.

1. Duotone

Feel like going retro on your site? Play around with the new #duotone filters that come with #WordPress 5.8! https://wp.me/pZhYe-2GV

In the mood for pop-art style illustrations? The new #duotone filter for images in #WordPress 5.8 allows you to choose all sorts of striking color combinations. https://wp.me/pZhYe-2GV

With the new #duotone filter inbuilt in #WordPress 5.8, you can be sure that your images match your content’s mood. Try it now! https://wp.me/pZhYe-2GV

Have you seen the most eye-catching feature of #WordPress 5.8? It’s #duotone! Style your images with 1 click, without leaving the editor. Experiment with unlimited color filters & easily undo changes. https://wp.me/pZhYe-2GV

2. WebP

Want to spin up client websites faster? #WordPress 5.8 now supports the modern #WebP image format that makes images 30% smaller than JPEG or PNG. This makes websites load faster and use less bandwidth. https://wp.me/p2AvED-ne3

Be future-ready with next generation WebP support that makes your images smaller and load faster, making your site lighter in #WordPress 5.8. #WebP is supported in all major browsers, so most sites can start using them today! More info: https://wp.me/p2AvED-ne3

WordPress 5.8 helps you give your site visitors a better user experience by serving #WebP images, and improving your site load time. More info about #WordPress features https://wp.me/p2AvED-ne3

WordPress 5.8 helps you deliver visually rich content on your website without worrying about quality and page load speed using #WebP images. Check out the new #WordPress features https://wp.me/p2AvED-ne3

With #WordPress 5.8 you no longer have to worry about image loading speed on mobile. With #WebP image support, you get superb image performance optimization for a mobile-first user experience. https://wp.me/p2AvED-ne3

3. List view

The new List View feature in #WordPress 5.8 is great for building complex layouts. It lets you navigate between blocks, and gives you a quick overview of the nested block hierarchy. Explore how to use it https://wp.me/p2AvED-ng4

List view navigation is now in the Block Editor in #WordPress 5.8 and very useful when managing big articles and complicated layouts. Stay organized! WordPress is a great tool you need to work with content. Explore how to use it https://wp.me/p2AvED-ng4 #BlockEditor

4. Query Loop block

Does “Query to a database” sound complicated? #WordPress 5.8 makes it simple! Get creative and discover new ways to present relevant information to your audience. More info at https://wordpress.org/support/article/query-loop-block #BlockEditor

Now you can feature related content on your posts based on categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging., author or even keywords. What was only possible with complex functions, is now native to the #BlockEditor in #WordPress 5.8, your smart assistant in content creation! https://wordpress.org/support/article/query-loop-block

5. Widgets

Full Site Editing brings new #RESTAPI endpoints for block-based widget management. #WordPress https://wp.me/p2AvED-nmb

With the new block-based widgets editor in #WordPress 5.8, users have powerful new ways to customize their sites using the rich library of core and third party blocks. Learn more https://wp.me/p2AvED-nmb #BlockEditor

6. WordPress Pattern Directory

Check out the new WordPress Pattern Directory that was launched alongside WordPress 5.8!


How do people get involved with point releases and / or 5.9?

In WordPress 5.8, the release team shipped a bulk of the template editing tools. This will be the basis for Full Site Editing in a future release. The tools will be very useful for site maintainers and content creators.

You can still help test Full Site Editing for future releases. Join the dedicated 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/. channel #fse-outreach-experiment, everyone is welcome! This is the best way to get ready for WordPress 5.9.


Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this pack and Marcomms for the release. https://wp.me/sZhYe-tatum

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