Housekeeping: projects now listed in the sidebar

I’ve updated this site’s sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. to include a list of projects that affect multiple contributor teams and are being discussed mainly on this blog. My hope is that this will make it easier for people to follow communication centered around certain initiatives, as we continue to use this site for both weekly team updates and topics/project that affect many teams.

The links just take people to a list of all the posts associated with a project-specific tag, so it’s not terribly complicated. To keep this list relevant and useful, those leading cross-project initiatives should tag their posts consistently, and add the name of the initiative to that sidebar 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.. This can be done retroactively as well, of course.

I considered making another sidebar widget for easy links to all the weekly updates from each team, but I don’t know if that would be useful or not. If you have a strong opinion on the matter, please share your thoughts in a comment on this post! If there’s a project that I’ve missed (as yet I’ve only added a few, that I’m personally working on), please also comment below. 🙂

Rocio Valdivia 7:39 am on August 6, 2019

Thanks for this @andreamiddleton!

And +1 to add a link to the weekly updates, I think that can be a good way to discover what other 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/ teams are doing 🙂
Timi Wahalahti 3:31 pm on August 6, 2019

+1 for easy team update links!

My hope is that this will make it easier for people to follow communication centered around certain initiatives, as we continue to use this site for both weekly team updates and topics/project that affect many teams.

Would it be reasoned to create new 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/. for initiatives and discussion that affect many teams and the WordPress project as a whole, leaving this P2 just for team updates? Now, this P2 contains pretty different content and important discussion can get buried under regular team updates.
- Andrea Middleton 6:00 pm on August 6, 2019
  
  I thought about that, and I’m uncertain whether that approach would be wise. This site already has a lot of eyes on it, which saves time and effort in building a contributor audience. If we’re talking about things that affect multiple teams, in the place that multiple teams tend to check, then presumably we’re facilitating teams learning about those initiatives/projects without adding another site they need to check regularly.

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