Tag Archives: Showcase

Sé Reed 8:23 pm on May 15, 2023
Tags: , performance lab, plugin dependencies, rollback update failure, Showcase, ,   

Day 8: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks

It is Day 8 of the #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks campaign, twenty days of celebrating WordPress and the WordPress community leading up to the 20th Anniversary of WordPress!

Do you have more questions about how to participate? Let us know in the #marketing Slack channel or on the FAQ page.

Prompt 8/20

Blog: Tell us about the strangest, most interesting, or otherwise noteable place you’ve done WordPress-related things. Post your response on a WordPress website and link it in the comments.

Develop: Test a WordPress Feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins like Performance Lab, Rollback Update Failure, or Plugin Dependencies. Leave feedback as an issue or make a pull request and link to it in the comments (or just let us know which one you tested.)

Design: Create a new color palette for WordPress. Share a screenshot or image of your palette wherever you like (website, social media, digitial art account, etc.), tag it #WP20, and post the link in the comments.

Photograph: Submit a photo from the year you started contributing to WordPress (or this year if you are starting now). Submit it to the WordPress Photo Directory. Once it’s approved, share the link to your photo in the comments (or post it on social and link to that).

Contribute: Read about and share your input and ideas for upgrading the WordPress Showcase component of WP.org. Provide your feedback on the related Project post, the Marketing post, or on the GitHub issue and link to your feedback in the comments.

Note: You can share context in your comment if you like, but don’t forget to include the link as specified in each prompt.

If none of these actions work for you, feel free to make your own WordPress-focused action. Anyone who shares at least one action as a comment on a #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks post before or on May 27 will have the achievement acknowledged by the 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.

Previous Prompts

Contributors to the #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks campaign include: @ninianepress, @ngreennc, @nomadskateboarding, @santanainniss, @sereedmedia, @courane01, @meaganhanes, @costdev, @felix, @joen, @boogah, @quizzycal, @tobifjellner, @annezazu, @psykro, @flixos90, @rmartinezduque.

#fromblogstoblocks, #performance-lab, #plugin-dependencies, #rollback-update-failure, #showcase, #wordcamp

Jonathan Pantani 9:05 pm on April 19, 2023
Tags: Showcase   

Revitalizing the Showcase 

Submission guidelines on highlighting the best of what you can do with WordPress

Highlighting the potential of what can be built with WordPress is both a testament to the incredible power of creating on WordPress and a testimonial that even the most noteworthy of brands are powering their content with WordPress. As the Make Marketing team updates the content of what’s in the Showcase, the team should aim to elevate and maintain the integrity of the platform. Read more on the efforts to reinvigorate the Showcase.

This is an excellent opportunity to get involved in a way that helps shape how others, especially those who aren’t intimately familiar with WordPress might come to view the excellent work that brands with their teams or designers, developers, and marketers are doing while utilizing WordPress.

In order to fix the aforementioned issues, allow Showcase to reach its fullest potential, and make moderation sustainable, I’m proposing the following steps be taken:

  1. Limit the 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/ Showcase to 100 entries. Unlike the Photos Directory, websites aren’t static, they change frequently. Staying on top of which sites are still running and still using WordPress has been an ongoing and growing issue. Limiting the Showcase to the 100 most sites resolves this issue and also guarantees that the showcased sites are also fresh, demonstrating the latest and greatest WordPress possibilities. Bonus: Develop a script to automatically unpublish any sites still running on an old version within 30 days of a new release.
  2. Get details and data. The showcase should be more than just ‘shiny and new’ or a collection of Fortune 500 companies. Digging in and getting details like how the website was created will help answer the question of “Why is this in the Showcase?” 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. data that helps to answer this question will be prioritized throughout the curation process.
  3. Reduce categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. noise. Have fun with tags. The Showcase previously used an arbitrary collection of tags for navigation. Rather than carry that forward, there is an opportunity to simplify navigation through the use of select categories. Tags can then be used to arbitrarily group sites by technology, theme, host, etc. This will help keep the collection of sites and add some quirk and joy as well.
  4. Update the submission form to include additional metadata. While the Showcase has previously used single-sentence site descriptions, the hope is to expand entries to tell more of the story behind the sites. Adding form fields for the site creator, country of origin, and story (background) gives visitors insight into how these sites are built. These fields can also make the content creation process easier.
  5. Maintain and manage the list. While each site on the Showcase will embody the spirit of what it means to be powered by WordPress, some brands’ notoriety will underscore the breadth of what’s possible with WordPress. Keeping such sites as evergreen — or pinned — will be in the best interest of visitors. Innovation is also a key way of keeping the showcase fresh and some entries will help balance the showcase with evergreen content and user-generated submissions to help show off the beauty of WordPress.
  6. Create credibility and trust. Adopting a policy that refreshes a portion of the showcase, rotating through new various sites, allows the WordPress Project to stay true to values like fostering creativity and innovation on the platform. When the Showcase exemplifies what’s possible, the Project will live its values. Brands that might make sense from a name recognition point of view might be best represented on /enterprise rather than the showcase.

What’s next?

Sharing some of these thoughts with you and listening to your observations and ideas is a critical step in making the Showcase a valuable and successful brand asset. The project will only benefit from its collective community voice as it works to show off some of the excellent work that’s being done out in the wild world wide web!

So what do you think? Do these guidelines capture a strong way of revitalizing the Showcase? Please share your thoughts and ideas. Or join in the discussion on GitHub.

#showcase

Meher Bala 11:59 am on June 2, 2021
Tags: , , , , , , , Showcase   

Notes: Global Marketing Meeting 26 May 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. 
    1. The meeting discussions on the Marketing team on Slack can be found at this Slack thread
    2. Meeting led by: @webcommsat
    3. Meeting notes: @yashwardhanrana, @meher and @webcommsat
    4. Follow up actions: projects and actions group 
  2. Attendees Slack Thread
  3. Welcoming new contributors – New Attendees Welcome Thread

@nalininonstopnewsuk covered 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) and inclusion support today. If anyone has an accessibility issue or needs some help with using one of the contributor tools, please let us know.

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

Continue reading →

#5-8, #contributor-onboarding, #fse, #lean-wp, #onboarding, #onlinewpmeetup, #people-of-wordpress, #showcase

Meher Bala 9:56 pm on May 25, 2021
Tags: , , , , , , Showcase, ,   

Notes: Global Marketing meeting 19th May 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. 
    1. The meeting discussions on the Marketing team on Slack can be found at this Slack thread
    2. Meeting led by: @webcommsat
    3. Meeting notes: @ugyensupport, @meher, @webcommsat, @cbringmann
    4. Follow up actions: projects and actions group 
  2. Attendees Slack Thread
  3. Welcoming new contributors – New Attendees Welcome Thread

@meher covered 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) and inclusion support today. If anyone has an accessibility issue or needs some help with using one of the contributor tools, please let us know.

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

Continue reading →

#case-studies, #contributorstory, #fse, #marketing, #onlinewpmeetup, #people-of-wordpress, #showcase, #wceu, #wpdiversity

Abha Thakor 10:46 am on January 29, 2020
Tags: Showcase   

Notes: Global Marketing Team 22 January 2020

These notes focus on key items from the meeting and to assist with asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues, please do join the discussion threads and tasks on 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. after the meeting and send your updates.

The meeting discussions 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/ can be found at: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1579705290124300

Attended: @harryjackson1221, @michellefrechette, @simonasNaudzius, @darls, @timbb, @Fayazgabol, @OGlekler, @nullbyte, @mta1, @passioniate, @maedahbatool, @carike, @megphillips91, @siobhanseija, @kashifgabol, @sharaz, @JillianMaxwell , @adityakane, @webcommsat.
If you have contributed to the meeting and we do not have your 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/ ID please contact the notetaker for the day.

Welcome to new contributors joining today @sharaz and @JillianMaxwell

Notetaker: @JillianMaxwell

New Contributors

Provide a list of new members joining us today.

Successes of Past Week (WordPress Wins)

Project: WordPress Showcase 

Task lead: @harryjackson1221

Trello Card: https://trello.com/c/wQJwSmfT 

Update

  1. Great meetings on the Showcase work during this past week. Thanks to everyone.
  2. Summary can be found via 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 Post https://make.wordpress.org/marketing 
  3. Next Steps: Comments from P2 posts will be used to encourage contributions from everyone, and figure out how to best move forward.

Project: Proposed 2020 Content Marketing 

Task lead: @Megphillips91

Update (More on this task in the projects section of the notes)

  1. Personas and Journey Mapping meeting with Cathi Bosco from WordPress Governance Project planned for next week. 
  2. 91 topic suggestions for a proposed 2020 content marketing strategy. @Carike is managing the spreadsheet and tracking the status. 

Project and Task Updates

Summarize any updates from Task Leads that are discussed here.

Project: proposed Content Marketing Plan

Task lead: @MegPhillips91 

Trello Card: https://trello.com/c/AxoJHcsM  

Topics

  1. Sign up to attend the Personas Meeting with Cathi Bosco (Now Scheduled for Wednesday 29 Jan 2020, 14:00-15:00 UTC) 
  2. Example of Content Planning/Audit tool added to the Marketing Google Drive. The tool helps set measurable goals, buyer personas, buyer journeys content ideas, and content schedule. Used to plan before implementing or creating content. 
  3. Prospective channels and how to take this forward are being discussed. Meg, Yvette, Abha and others to meet to explore this further In the next few weeks.
  4. Content Planning tool may be helpful in the pitch and development of this proposal, showing the structure, goal and required work needed to complete the proposed goals.

Scheduling Doodle poll for meeting on personas and journey from the experience of the WordPress Governance Project https://doodle.com/poll/58z6xa86xu5gvytq 

Content Topics Suggestions: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yHPXIYazN8hu7hIVhtHaJuOuq0jGiBGd1iVvEeoR1Iw/edit#gid=329469429 

Content Planning/Audit Tool: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dxmWW2zvnKWH54hrtMkcyKVQZ3VTN8-Q/edit#gid=1394574761  

[Note: this is in development and proposal stage, and will come back to the Marketing Team as a more in-depth proposal before it is taken out for wider consultation. Thanks to Meg for leading on developing this task and encouraging contributions from the marketing team. ]

New Business

Topic: Discuss the overlap between goals of the showcase and the proposed content marketing plan

Question: How do these work together towards the same goals?

  1. Showcase End Goal: Real-world examples of solving problems businesses run into using WordPress. 
  2. Proposed Content Marketing Strategy: wider reach potentially. Showcase is a subset of the overall WordPress strategy. 
  3. Not competing initiatives – rather complement each other. 

Background note: The Showcase is an existing project which has been through the process and project as a whole including resourcing. It is a main feature of the WordPress.org.

Topic: 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. Vienna 

Question: Who will be attending the Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ from the Marketing Team?

  • @nullbyte and @OGlekler will be attending the event. Further information has been requested from WordCamp Vienna and the German speaking marketing team on what they have prepared.
  • A request for what may be needed and examples of suggested tasks have been sent in December to WordCamp Vienna via the Contributor Events marketing sub group. The take up will depend on The camp’s plans and resources available as with all camps, and as many attendees are expected to be German speaking, any plans by the German speaking marketing team.

Topic: WordCamp Asia 

Question: Who will be attending from the Marketing Team?

Request: @adityakane from the Community Team

Call For Contributors: @harryjackson1221Currently looking for contributors to help or take part on the contributor day. Please note, you will need a Contributor Day ticket.

Next Steps: @harryjackson1221 and @webcommsat to talk about incorporating the work on contributing events marketing sub group and linking in with WCEU. TGhere will be multiple languages to be considered for WordCamp Asia.

Next meeting

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 15:00 UTC, in the Marketing Channel Slack.

Thank you everyone who has joined, attended and updated the meeting, or contributed asynchronously in the last few days.

#showcase