Review published lessons and courses on Learn WordPress. Your feedback helps keep educational content accurate, up to date, and useful for learners.
- Reference: Guidelines for Reviewing Content — what to look for and how to provide feedback
- Connect: Join #training on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ and introduce yourself
Steps
- Complete the Getting Started guide. The Getting Started page includes an intro video about the Training Team’s mission, explains where the team communicates, and helps you identify the contribution area that suits you best.
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Complete the Content Creator Onboarding. Work through the Content Creator Onboarding page. It introduces the team’s content workflow and walks you through making your first contribution.
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Pick a lesson or course to review. Browse Learn WordPress and choose any published lesson or course. Reviewing older content is especially helpful, as the team works to keep everything up to date.
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Review the content. Work through it as a learner would. Note anything that’s inaccurate, outdated, unclear, or missing.
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Submit your review. Go to the Learn WordPress GitHub issue templates, select the Feedback template, and follow the directions to submit your findings.
Contribution checklist
- Getting Started guide and Content Creator Onboarding completed
- Reviewed a published lesson or course
- Feedback submitted via the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue template
What happens next
Your feedback will be picked up by an editor or content creator who can apply the updates. The Training Team meets weekly; check the meeting calendar for times. As you contribute, you’ll earn a Training Team badge on your WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ profile.
When you’re ready to start creating content, move on to Create Content for Learn WordPress.
Help
Stuck? Check the getting help guide. For Training Team questions, ask in #training on Slack.
Further reading:
– Training Team Handbook
– Learn WordPress Contribute Page
– WordPress/Learn GitHub repository — where the team tracks all content work
– Training Team Blog