Promote WordPress Slack community on website

[adamwoodnz]

We're always looking for more engagement with the community; more feedback on features and tools from end users. Slack is the place where these discussions can happen, but we have no call to action to attract end users on the home page, or even the Make home page.

From personal experience I can say that some users do not know that WordPress Slack exists, or how to get onto the platform.

https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ is not linked anywhere as far as I can see.

Some places we could consider adding links:

• Header, under Community
• Footer link
• Footer social icon link
• Home page community section
• Make home page

[jasmussen]

As part of this, the instructions page could be vastly improved. In terms of appealing to participation, this is a wall of text to read in order to participate. If all of that material needs to be there we could potentially collapse some sections. I also wonder if there are any alternatives to Slack 😱 that might affect this.

[courtneyr-dev]

Noting that after the Contribute survey, there's a link to Join This is a helpful guide containing resources from LearnWP in many languages to help overcome the common barriers to using the Chat page to join (alias email).

[sereedmedia]

Hi @adamwoodnz! yes to all this!

we just made the join page that @courtneyr-dev linked on wednesday!!

check out WordPress/Marketing-Team#290

would LOVE to link this up from the main site and/or the front page of the make site.

[sereedmedia]

additional related Marketing team github tickets:

WordPress/Marketing-Team#292

WordPress/Marketing-Team#280

[adamwoodnz]

Thoughts on linking to this new Join page from a design perspective @jasmussen?

[jasmussen]

That seems a great instinct 👍 👍

Do you need any design for this? I would think this page can get fairly far with just an editorial lead, but I'm always happy to help if you need better logos or screenshots or things like that.

One nitpick, the last paragraph on that page would look better if not centered.

[adamwoodnz]

Do you need any design for this?

Maybe not design as such. Guidance on which place(s) would be best to add links or CTAs is really what's required if we're happy with the destination I think. Not sure who is best to advise, @ndiego?

Some places we could consider adding links:

• Header, under Community
• Footer link
• Footer social icon link
• Home page community section
• Make home page

[ndiego]

Any thoughts on this one @dorsvenabili?

[sereedmedia]

Note: The first page in the Contributor flow is this one: https://make.wordpress.org/contribute/ and it has the editorial content @jasmussen mentions.

The "Join" page is currently second in that flow. A Slack directory would be the third (i.e. now that you're got your WP accounts, here is where to find the conversation for your team.)

As a side note: While I greatly value the contributor access that is preserved by having this page on make.wordpress.org, it would actually benefit from a translation standpoint from being on the main site.

[sereedmedia]

One nitpick, the last paragraph on that page would look better if not centered.

@jasmussen the last paragraph is now left-aligned.

[StevenDufresne]

I think one of the simplest things we can do is call it out in the footer. I don't think it undermines any of our other support/onboarding flows.

Option A

Option B