In addition to the primary dashboard, this page offers additional information and context on the information shared in the Community Team dashboard.
Learning Pathway Enrollment Rate
The Training Team is heavily focussed on its new Learning Pathways that the team has worked on, out of which, the following have launched:
This metric showcases the percentage of users that completed the course, after enrolling in the same. Here are the completion rates for the four published Learning Pathways as of August 2024:
12.17%
Beginner WordPress Developer Completion Rate
(Out of 1289 enrollments)
22.57%
Beginner WordPress User completion rate (Out of 1847 enrollments)
18.42%
Intermediate WordPress User completion rate
(Out of 267 enrollments)
11.19%
Intermediate Theme Developer Completion Rate
(Out of 297 enrollments)
Course Enrollment Rate
This metric showcases the rate of the users enrolling in the courses versus the rate of users visiting course pages.
There has been an impressive increase in course enrollment rate in recent months, especially after the Learn WordPress redesign launch.
- The completion rate for Beginner WordPress Developer has remained steady but slightly decreased from 13.80% in June to 12.17% in August.
- The percentage of Beginner WordPress users increased slightly from 21.59% in July to 22.57% in August.
- Conversely, the percentage of Intermediate WordPress users decreased from 26.62% in July to 18.42% in August
Learner satisfaction rate
The learner satisfaction survey on the “course complete” page asks: “How useful did you find this course/Learning Pathway?” In August, the breakdown of responses for Learning Pathway courses was as follows:
90.3%
Average satisfaction rate (101 responses)
91.2%
Beginner WordPress User satisfaction rate (75 responses)
85.3%
Intermediate WordPress User
(15 responses)
93.3%
Beginner Developer
(6 responses)
88%
Intermediate Theme Developer
(5 responses)
The average satisfaction rate is 90.3% (- 101 responses)
Video retention rate
The combined retention rate of Tutorials and Learning Pathway courses continued to increase, reaching a new all-time high of 50%, a 9.3% increase from July. Unique viewers also increased to 24,936, compared to last month’s 14,332:
Learning Pathway courses alone had a retention rate of 57%, compared to 52.7% in July, with 20,769 unique viewers, compared to last month’s 10,232:
Learn Tutorials had a retention rate of 21.2%, with 5,826 unique viewers. As an older content type, this indicates that our newer content and learning pathways are experiencing higher demand:
To-Date Published Content Updates (in 2024)
265
Tutorials
30
Courses
571
Lessons
21
Number of Languages Represented
Content Contributors
Training Team 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ Statistics (January – August 2024)
- 1167 Commits
- 43 Authors
- 449 Pull Requests
- 54 Authors
- 2310 Issues
- 290 Submitters
Training Team GitHub Contributor Growth
The Team has had excellent activity thanks to its well-defined processes. This is clearly visible in the clear spike in new and active contributors around 2022-2023.
209
Total Contributors in 2024
512
Total Contributors since Team Inception
Training Team Community Structure (past five years)
This panel shows the evolution of the community structure split by project based on onion analysis.
- CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.: those contributing 80% of the activity.
- Regular: those contributing the next 15% of the activity.
- Casual: those contributing the last 5% of the activity
Most 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. projects have a higher number of casual and regular contributors, which is expected. The Training Team had higher levels of Core activity earlier, but is now showing a higher percentage of casual contributors, showcasing a diverse contributor team.
Note: In this visualization, classification as core, regular, and casual is done for the whole dataset (WordPress GitHub Organization) and when filtering by project (Training in this case)