You are part of a community, use it!
WordPress Slack channels:
- #campusconnect: For questions and updates related to WordPress Campus Connect events and the broader education program community. Weekly Office HoursOffice Hours Defined times when the Global Community Team are in the #community-events Slack channel. If there is anything you would like to discuss – you do not need to inform them in advance.You are very welcome to drop into any of the Community Team Slack channels at any time. are held here.
- #wpcredits: For questions and updates related to the WordPress Credits program.
- #training: For questions related to Learn.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/ courses and the WordPress Training Team.
- #community-events: For broader community event questions and general Office Hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 09:00 UTC.
The Education Handbook: The central documentation hub for all WordPress Education Programs resources, including this playbook, facilitation guides, and program-specific documentation.
The Monthly Education Buzz Report: Published at https://make.wordpress.org/community/ — covers updates, highlights, and news from across all three WordPress Education Programs monthly. Following it is the simplest way to stay current without monitoring multiple channels.
Learn WordPress: The home of all self-guided courses in the program and the broader WordPress training library. If you have a question about a topic you are teaching, the answer is often in a lesson here.
The WordPress Training Team: If you want to contribute to developing new courses or facilitation guides, this is your starting point. The team is open to new contributors and actively needs people who can create and review learning content.
What Comes Next
The WordPress Facilitator Training Program is new. The topic library is small. The credential pathways are just beginning. This is not a finished system. It is a starting point.
Here is where it is heading.
More topics. As new courses are developed and facilitation guides are created, the program grows. WordPress covers an enormous range of skills and knowledge areas. Every topic that gets a well-designed course and a strong facilitation guide is another topic that can be taught by community facilitators anywhere in the world.
More credentials. The AI Leaders micro-credential at https://wordpress.org/news/2026/02/ai-leaders-credential/ is the first WordPress FoundationWordPress Foundation The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software. Find more on wordpressfoundation.org.-backed micro-credential, and it signals a clear direction. As the credential model matures, facilitators who have built expertise through the program will be positioned to earn credentials that translate directly into career opportunities.
More paid teaching opportunities. Institutions, companies, and bootcamps that want to teach WordPress topics need qualified people to teach them. As the facilitator program grows and more facilitators build track records, the connection between program participation and paid teaching opportunities becomes more concrete. The program is laying the groundwork for that market to develop.
A global facilitator network. Right now, facilitators working through this program are relatively isolated from each other. Over time, the community infrastructure exists to bring them together: shared 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/ channels, peer consultation, collaborative resource development, and mutual support across a global network of WordPress educators.
The program grows when facilitators use it, share what they learn, and contribute back to it. You are not just a beneficiary of the program. You are a builder of it.
A Final Note
Open sourceOpen 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. works because people show up. They contribute their time, their knowledge, and their energy to something they believe in without knowing exactly what they will get in return. And what comes back — almost always — is more than they expected.
Facilitating a WordPress workshop for the first time is an act of open source. You are giving something to a room full of people who will leave knowing more than they arrived knowing. Some of them will go on to build things, contribute things, and teach others. The ripple is real, even when you cannot see it.
You do not need to be the most experienced WordPress user in the room to do this well. You need to know the material, trust the structure, and show up for the people in front of you.
That is it. That is the whole program.
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