Add additional verticals to the verticals drop down

[autumnfjeld]

Description

This analysis of user selection of industry verticals pbxlJb-2pM-p2 shows that the top 10 selected verticals are EXACTLY THE SAME as the ones in the drop down list--with the exception of "Arts & Entertainment" bumping "Travel Agencies & Services" out of the top 10. I think we are influencing users. I'd like to update the list and include more verticals and then check the metrics.

HYPOTHESIS: the verticals we suggest in the drop down list will always be the top selected verticals.

All the verticals in the list should be supported/whitelisted (so may need to whitelist these, ensure there are images.

New verticals:

1. Science
2. Fashion & Style
3. Real Estate
4. Sports
5. Home & Garden
6. Pets & Animals

Dev Tasks

• [x] update the list to show 16 verticals per the new ones above
  • [x] D89106-code
  • [x] https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/pull/68697
  • [x] https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/pull/68698
• [x] We should have images for the six verticals @autumnfjeld can add images, or I think we might be able to use existing
• [x] Add entry to Ship table
• [x] Follow up with metrics check in a week to see if top 16 verticals matches the updated dropdown list

References

• pbxlJb-2pM-p2
• code
  • vertical-store.php wpcom/wp-content/lib/verticals/vertical-store.php?r=a7dbfe5f

Testing

• Go to wordpress.com/start
• Confirm additional verticals are showing
• Ping @autumnfjeld for testing

[autumnfjeld]

@Automattic/ganon Moving this to top of Ready for Dev. I was debating to update the list to 15/16 verticals or maybe more, like 20. Anyone have any opinions on this?

[arthur791004]

I think 15/16 verticals are enough, and we could increase to 20 later if we want 🙂

Here is the image count of each vertical. I think we might need to add more images to the Fashion & Style vertical as it only has 8 images and the others are from its parent vertical.	Vertical	Image Count
Science	14
Fashion & Style	15 (7 of them are from its parent vertical)
Real Estate	13
Sports	19
Home & Garden	14
Pets & Animals	17

I think we are influencing users.

I think we could also shuffle the top verticals to eliminate the influence of the order, what do you think?

[autumnfjeld]

I think we could also shuffle the top verticals to eliminate the influence of the order, what do you think?

Great idea!!!

I'll add more Fashion images.

[autumnfjeld]

And just double checking , these six verticals area already whitelisted because they are top level verticals ya? Oh except Fashion & Style is not top level.

[taipeicoder]

We should also add this to the FTME Change Log / Ship Table.

[arthur791004]

Shipped and added to the Ship Table! We could follow up with metrics next week

[autumnfjeld]

Are you volunteering to follow up? 😃 Then you post a comment to pbxlJb-2pM-p2. Simple check in tracks trends that I am guessing will show these 16 are now the top.

[arthur791004]

Sure!

[arthur791004]

Post a comment pbxlJb-2pM-p2#comment-1923 to show the metrics with newly added 6 verticals 🙂

[arthur791004]

Close as it's completed