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)

Bar chart showing overall Learn WordPress course completion rate in 2024.
The course completion rate for Learn WordPress hovers around 16% throughout the year. Data from May 2024 through August 2024.

Course Enrollment Rate

This metric showcases the rate of the users enrolling in the courses versus the rate of users visiting course pages.

Bar and line chart showing the distribution of Learn WordPress course viewers rate and course enrollment rate The viewer rate has gone up in 2024, with the enrollment rate spiking up to almost 60% as on August 2024.

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)

Bar chart showing Learn WordPress course feedback since learning pathway launch in July 2024.
Course Feedback/Learner Satisfaction remains high for Learn WordPress in 2024 from July through September.

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:

Line charts shows the video engagement rate in Learn WordPress videos in YouTube. It shows that retention rate is going high, almost peaking at 50% in August, showing high interest and engagement in these videos.
Learn WordPress video retention rate for Learning Pathways, from September 2023 through August 2024.

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:

Line charts shows the video engagement rate in Learn WordPress videos in YouTube. It shows that retention rate for Learning Pathway courses is going high, almost peaking at 57% in August, showing high interest and engagement in these videos.
Learn WordPress video retention rate for Learning Pathway Videos from September 2023 through August 2024.

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:

Line chart showing Learn WordPress Video Tutorials' retention rate. Learn Tutorials in contrast have a lower retention rate of 21.2% increasing demand for newer content types.
Learn WordPress video retention rate for Tutorial Videos from September 2023 through August 2024.

To-Date Published Content Updates (in 2024)

265

Tutorials

30

Courses

571

Lessons

21

Number of Languages Represented

Content Contributors

Bar chart showing Learn WordPress content contributors and their content.
Distribution of content contributors in the Learn WordPress Platform from January through August 2024

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)

Bar chart showing Training team GitHub commits.
  • 1167 Commits
  • 43 Authors
Bar chart showing Training team GitHub Pull Requests.
  • 449 Pull Requests
  • 54 Authors
Bar chart showing Training team GitHub Issues.
  • 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

Dashboard showing active contributors over time and growth analysis for the Training team.
Active Contributors’ analysis from January 2020 through August 2024.

Training Team Community Structure (past five years)

Bar charts showing the Core (80% of contribution activity), Regular (15% of activity), and Cawsual (5% of activity) contributors.
Contribution quantity and contributor type distribution from 2020 Q3 through 2024 Q3.

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)