Web Writers’ Collective

Visit the Web Writers’ Collective at WebWritersCollective.com

The Web Writers’ Collective (WWC) is an invite-only community for people who write on the web, organised over Signal, with a companion forum on Discourse for discussion and a community zine called Anthologies.

Useful pages:

• About: who we are, what we do: https://webwriterscollective.com/about
• Editing guide: how to contribute writing: https://webwriterscollective.com/editing-guide
• Community guidelines / code of conduct: https://webwriterscollective.com/community-guidelines
• Organisers: https://webwriterscollective.com/organisers
• Anthologies (community zine): https://webwriterscollective.com/anthologies
• Noticeboard: https://webwriterscollective.com/noticeboard
• Forum: https://webwriterscollective.com/forum

Send an email to contact@webwriterscollective.com to request an invite.

Tech stack

• Hugo static site generator (theme webwriterscollective lives in themes/webwriterscollective)
• Tailwind CSS v4 for styling, compiled via @tailwindcss/cli
• Netlify for hosting/deploys

Local development

Requirements: Hugo (extended not required, min version 0.146.0) and Node.js.

# install JS dependencies
npm install

# compile Tailwind CSS and watch for changes
# only when editing CSS
npm run watch

# in a separate terminal, run the Hugo dev server
hugo server

# to enable viewing drafts, run instead
# useful when addition new pages, notices etc.
hugo server -D

# finally, compile CSS for production
# only when editing CSS
npm run prod

To build a production CSS bundle: npm run prod. Hugo output is written to /public and is git-ignored.

Project structure

• content/: Markdown content (pages, anthologies, noticeboard posts, authors, etc.)
• themes/webwriterscollective/: site theme: Hugo layouts, Tailwind CSS source, static assets
• archetypes/: Hugo content templates for new content
• hugo.toml: site-level Hugo configuration

Notes for organisers

1. When a new theme has been decided for Anthologies and once a notice of the new theme has been published, please update /content/anthologies/_index.md with a relative link to the notice against the issue_notice field. All this does is update a link to the theme on the contribution guidelines but it may do more in future.
2. To update your organiser box use the {{< organiser [parameters] >}} shortcode. It takes several parameters specified as parameter="value" in any order.

Parameter	Notes	Compulsory?
name	Or pseudonym	Yes
website	Include https://	Yes
forum_handle	case-sensitive, leave out the @	Yes
pronouns	–	No
email	–	No
contact_page	–	No
signal_link	–	No
signal_handle	–	No
other_label_1	e.g. Bluesky	No
other_link_1	e.g. social media profile link	No
other_value_1	Optional, else shows Visit ↗	No

Additionally, you can have other_label_2 and other_label_3 (a maximum of three) along with their links and/or values.