One of the most consistent things I hear from educators, community organizers, and WordPress professionals who want to bring WordPress education to their institutions and communities is some version of the same question: where do I start?
They have the knowledge. They have the motivation. What they often lack is a clear, structured pathway to go from “I could teach this” to actually teaching it.
The WordPress Facilitator Training Program is our answer to that question.
What It Is
The WordPress Facilitator Training Program is a free, open, community-powered program that equips people to teach WordPress topics to others. It is designed for anyone who wants to facilitate WordPress learning: campus educators, community organizers, freelancers, developers, designers, or anyone else who knows WordPress and wants to help others learn it.
There is no application process. No gatekeeping. No prerequisite credential. The resources are free, openly accessible, and built around the spirit of open source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL.: knowledge is not a scarce resource, and the more people who can teach WordPress well, the better WordPress is for everyone.
The program has three components:
- Self-guided courses on Learn.wordpress.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/ that build the knowledge facilitators need to teach a given topic
- Facilitation guides that provide a practical, session-by-session framework for delivering 2 to 3 day workshops, written for people with no prior teaching experience
- The WordPress Facilitator Training Program Playbook, which orients facilitators to the program, explains what is in it for them, and gives them everything they need to get started
What We Have Built
The first topic available in the program is Leading WordPress Education Programs: a 9-module, 41-lesson self-guided course covering open source foundations, WordPress basics, contribution pathways, and all three WordPress Education Programs (WordPress Credits, Campus Connect, and Student Clubs).
The course is now publicly available on Learn.wordpress.org at https://learn.wordpress.org/course/leading-wordpress-education-programs/ and is currently published and we welcome any and all feedback!
Alongside the course, we have developed:
Why This Matters
WordPress Education Programs are growing. Campus Connect events are happening at institutions around the world. WordPress Credits is bringing university students into the contributor community. Student Clubs are forming on campuses that never had a WordPress presence before.
Sustaining and scaling that growth requires more than a central team. It requires a distributed network of facilitators who are confident, prepared, and equipped to bring WordPress education to their communities independently.
The WordPress Facilitator Training Program is the infrastructure for that network. It is how we go from a program that depends on a small number of people to one that can grow wherever there are people willing to teach.
It also creates a genuine opportunity for facilitators themselves. Institutions, bootcamps, and companies increasingly need qualified people to deliver WordPress training. Facilitators who build a track record through this program position themselves for those opportunities. And as the WordPress ecosystem continues to develop credential pathways, such as the AI Leaders micro-credential piloted earlier this year at https://wordpress.org/news/2026/02/ai-leaders-credential/, facilitators who complete the relevant courses will be positioned to earn credentials that carry real professional value.
Where It Is Headed
The topic library is just beginning. The first course covers WordPress Education Programs. Future topics will draw from the broad range of WordPress skills and knowledge areas already represented on Learn.wordpress.org, as well as new courses developed specifically for the facilitator program. Every new topic that gets a well-designed course and a strong facilitation guide is another topic that community facilitators anywhere in the world can teach.
If you have expertise in a WordPress topic and are interested in contributing a course or facilitation guide, the WordPress Training Team at https://make.wordpress.org/training/ is the right place to connect.
We Want Your Feedback
The Leading WordPress Education Programs course is publicly available now and under active review. If you explore it, we would genuinely love to hear what you think. A few questions we are actively looking for input on:
- Is the course content clear and accessible for a beginner-level educator?
- Are there topics or lessons you feel are missing or underrepresented?
- Does the course give you enough to feel prepared to facilitate a workshop on these topics?
Beyond the course itself, we are also interested in feedback on the program structure:
- What topics would you most like to see added to the facilitator program?
- What would make this program more useful to you in your context, whether that is a campus, a Meetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook., a bootcamp, or a company?
- Are you interested in participating in an internal dry run of the 2-3 day workshop? If so, please note that we are actively looking for volunteers for this step.
Please share your feedback in the comments below or reach out in the #campusconnect channel on WordPress Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/
Get Involved
The WordPress community has always grown because people show up, share what they know, and help others do the same. This program is an extension of that. We are building something that should not belong to one team or one organization. It should belong to the community.
We are just getting started, and we would love to have you be part of it.
Thank you to @webtechpooja @devmuhib @peiraisotta @clk87 for helping review and provide feedback on various parts of the program.
