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.
Today is May 27, 2023 and the 20th Anniversary of WordPress! It is also the final day of #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks, our campaign celebrating 20 Years of WordPress and the WordPress community. Thank you to everyone who has participated or will participate, and to all of you who make WordPress in a million different ways, every day.
WordPress was officially launched on May 27, 2003. Four months earlier, future WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg had posted about “The Blogging Software Dilemma” on his b2 blog, which caught the attention of WordPress’s other future co-founder Mike Little. Code was forked, a name was bestowed, and a beautiful open sourceOpen SourceOpen Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project was born.
Check out more WordPress history in Milestones, the WordPress book
Prompt 20/20
Blog: Sign the WordPress birthday card! Wish WordPress a happy birthday in the comments below.
Develop: Sign the WordPress birthday card! Wish WordPress a happy birthday in the comments below.
Design: Sign the WordPress birthday card! Wish WordPress a happy birthday in the comments below.
Photograph: Sign the WordPress birthday card! Wish WordPress a happy birthday in the comments below.
Contribute: Sign the WordPress birthday card! Wish WordPress a happy birthday in the comments below.
Note: You can share context in your comment if you like, but don’t forget to include the link as specified in each prompt.
Share a comment on this post or any of the Previous Prompts to have your participation in #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks acknowledged by the Make WP 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.
