There is no shortage of places to make a WordPress profile. That is a good thing. The people who build, teach, organize, design, support, and obsess over WordPress should not have to squeeze their whole community life into one platform.
WPFolks and The WP World are both trying to make the human side of WordPress easier to find. They just come at it from different directions… and they work better together than apart.
What WPFolks is building
WPFolks is a people-first community space: make a profile, share activity, discover other people, and join the conversation. Its premise is refreshingly direct. WordPress has excellent places for software, documentation, tickets, and planning. What it has often lacked is an obvious home for the people doing the work.
That makes WPFolks especially useful when you want the present tense of WordPress: who is talking about something now, who is building in public, and who you might want to meet next.
What The WP World does differently
The WP World starts with a different question: where has this person shown up in WordPress, and what connects them to the wider community?
A Presser profile is not just a bio. It can connect a person to events they attended, communities they helped lead, businesses they work with, sponsors, talks, achievements, recaps, and the people around them. Event pages are built to be useful before you travel and interesting after you get home: side events, nearby places, Wapuu art, schedules, practical context, and the local community all belong in the same picture.
That is the difference between a feed and a map. A feed helps you catch the moment. A map helps you understand the territory.
Why signing up for both is the smart move
Use WPFolks to meet people and keep up with the conversation. Use The WP World to deepen the connection: see the events and places around them, discover the overlap in your WordPress paths, and build a more useful record of your own.
Neither needs to replace the other. In fact, the best version of the WordPress ecosystem has room for multiple good doors into the community. WPFolks makes it easier to find the people. The WP World gives those people, their history, and their real-world connections somewhere to live.
Start with your people
If you have not joined WPFolks, make a profile and see who is already there. Then claim or refresh your Presser profile on The WP World. And try the new Friends feature while you are at it. A giant global community gets much more useful when it starts to feel like a group of familiar faces.
WordPress is better when its people are easier to find… and even better when the connections between them are not lost.