Marketing & Design Team Updates
Summary
We held a meeting on June 23 to discuss current status and how to move forward.
- It was suggested that we should look into gaining an evangelist (or a few) to help us market ClassicPress.
- We came up with a few talking points that could be shared to help generate interest in CP.
– ClassicPress is stable and will not be making breaking changes
– WP without the GB mess and without the WP culture.
– we get security updates promptly
– the ability to make a difference in software that I use and perhaps fix those things that bother me
– there’s a great opportunity for developers. I think many developers are fearful that WP is going to take all that away. - We discussed fundraising to help offset marketing costs.
- We discussed other outreach opportunities: Reddit, WP Meetup groups, etc.
- We discussed the concept of adapting the WP Theme Developer Handbook for CP. Joy also suggested one for plugins as well.
- @1stepforward shared that he is working on a “CP for WP Users” page for the website
Action Items
- @BlueSkyPhoenix to contact Bridget Willard to see if she would be interested in evangelizing for us.
– STATUS: I contacted Bridget and she graciously declined. - @BlueSkyPhoenix to generate marketing content for the next few months to help generate interest in CP
– STATUS: I have been working with @Padraig and @1stepforward, who have created a great deal of valuable content that we’ll be able to use, both on the CP website and on social media. - @BlueSkyPhoenix to contact Scott to have the ClassicPress user added as a moderator on the CP subreddit
– STATUS: complete
A Doodle poll for the next marketing meeting is available here: https://doodle.com/poll/rnn968rv3m6siw77