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MicroProfile.io WordPress site

The https://MicroProfile.io site has been revamped to the WordPress (WP) platform for easier use and maintenance. To provide feedback on how to improve the new site, please use the GitHub issues tab above to enter your requests/suggestions.

Interviewing New MicroProfilers OutReach

JOIN THE FUN: As of June 2019, Onboarding Interview to introduce and welcome new MicroProfilers to our ecosystem is possible.

https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-marketing/wiki/Interviewing-New-MicroProfilers

What is a WP-Contributor:

Contributor: is somebody who can write and manage her/his own posts but cannot publish content

https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

List of the Editors, who volunteer to get your content published:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q0Xw4XJcoVq1V5vPWe9KR__WKoGc0e-X5cD3tnBsIKw/edit

About WordPress Timezone

Set time is UTC- Coordinated Universal time

About Contributor's blog & video posts

Everyone in the community is encouraged to submit blogs and videos to MicroProfile.io. Two process are described below.

NOTE for the new Contributor: If this is the first time submitting content, please write a git issue:

• https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-marketing/issues ** Subject of issue: Request to be added as a WP MicroProfiler New Contributor. ** Content of issue: Contributor's first and last name and preferred email as the content on your email request. ** Do keep in mind that group emails won't gain access to MP Wordpress

NOTE for the WordPress sessoned Editors: If choosing to help on any content submission git, please follow up directly on the respective issue.

NOTE for potential new Editors: as of 12/12/18 28 Contributors. You are most welcomed to help process. How? Write an issue asking to be added as an editor. ** https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-marketing/issues

Case 1: You plan to write and host your post on the MicroProfile.io site, i.e. blog post is NOT a redirect to another existing blog URL

1. Contributors are welcomed to make the best usage of drafting or droping the content directly in the MP Content folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yonVuzmgpH_Mr3WgoqQEYywoJJjOmKBD Doing so will ensure that copy/edit review is possible & happens in a 360 form directly via "Sugestive Mode" showing improvements Contributors approve before she/he imports to WordPress. If you choose to use the drive, go to step 8 instead of 2 first.

2. Confirm you can Log in to the WordPress console and enter your WordPress credentials (these were in an email you received when you were added to MicroProfile.io as a "contributor")

3. On the left margin of the console, click on "Posts->Add New"

4. Choose a category and enter tags on the right side of the screen in the “tags” box. (These are keywords related to the topic of your post).

5. Scroll down to the "Feature Image" widget and upload an image by clicking on the "Set feature image" link. The image should be between 1600px - 2000px wide and have a minimum height of 500px for best results.

6. Scroll down to the Page Header Image and add image to your post, specially if you are contributing a video, a clip from it is valuable.

7. When done entering your blog post, click on the “Submit for Review” button. This will effectively put the blog post on the WP blog inbox for all WP admins. As a writer, you are done at this point.

8. Open an issue at the respective MP Github project requesting the new post review. Please, your WordPress post link created and any other relevant information related. You can find the respective MP Github project by using the following link:

• https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-marketing/issues ** OR https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-marketing/projects/2

9. Available Editors review your blog and approval to post by reviewer or a peer Editor is contengeant on "suggestive edits". If your post needs copy/editing, you will receive a notification so that you can edit your post with the necessary corrections and re-submit.

Case 2: If blog post is a redirect to another URL (post content is not hosted at WP MP.io)

1. Log in to the WordPress console and enter your WordPress credentials (these were in an email you received when you were added to MicroProfile.io as a "contributor")

2. On the left margin of the console, click on "Posts->Add New"

3. In the "Enter title here" text field of the screen "Add New Post", copy and paste the title of the existing post

4. Right sidebar: "Format" box. select "Link"

5. add your URL for your blog post to "Link settings" (below content section)

6. Paste the first three lines of your blog post right below the URL you pasted in the previous step.

7. On the right side of the screen, select a category and add tags to the post. Tags are keywords related to the topic of your article.

8. Scroll down to the "Feature Image" widget and upload an image by clicking on the "Set feature image" link. The image should be between 1600px - 2000px wide and have a minimum height of 500px for best results.

9. Scroll down to the Page Header Image and add image to your post, specially if you are contributing a video, a clip from it is valuable.

10. Click on the “Submit for Review” button. This will effectively put the blog post on the WordPress blog inbox for all WordPress admins. As a writer, you are done at this point.

11. Open an issue at the respective MP Github project requesting the new post review. Please, your WordPress post link created and any other relevant information related. You can find the respective MP Github project by using the following link:

• https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-marketing/issues ** https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-marketing/projects/2

The next steps apply to the Editors.

12. As an Editor, log in to WordPress console.

13. Click on "All Posts" on the left margin of the console and click on the appropriate blog post to review

14. Editor reviews the blog post for compliance to criteria (see "Criteria for approving blog posts" section below). If the post needs re-working, change the "Status" of the post to "Draft". This will send the post back to the writer to correct and re-submit. Editor needs to follow this with an email to the writer with details on what needs to be corrected. If the post satisfies the compliance criteria, then continue to the next step.

15. At this point, to approve for immediate or future scheduling, click on the "Publish" button

Criteria for approving blog posts

The following are some of the criteria that the editor will use when reviewing your submitted blog post:

• Ensure the content of post is relevant and applicable to Microprofile

• Check that post has the author name

• Check that post has a “Page Header Image”

• The image should be between 1600px - 2000px wide and have a minimum height of 500px for best results.

• Check for grammatical errors - Editors can fix this

• Check for TMs and copyrights - Editors can fix this or send back to author to fix