Learn Workshops: Revisiting the content wishlist

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As part of the beta launch for Learn WordPress, the Learn WordPress Working Group compiled a number of ideas for workshops/videos and course content on the Learn siteLearn site The Training Team publishes its completed lesson plans at https://learn.wordpress.org/ which is often referred to as the "Learn" site..

It’s been a while since we re-visited this list and many topics in the wishlist have already been incorporated into workshops. Likewise, I know I have personally received workshop ideas or requests from discussion group attendees looking to grow in a specific area of their WordPress skills. I imagine I’m not the only one!

Having a wishlist of workshop items – and, potentially, courses – can also help new contributors get involved. A clear list of content needs and wants for Learn WordPress workshops acts as a list of actionable items for folks to get involved more easily.

With that in mind, I’d like to propose two actions:

Review the Content Wishlist tab in this Google spreadsheet. What other ideas can, or should, be added to this list? Is there anything that should be removed, i.e. because it’s covered by another resource on the site? One thing I’ve noticed in particular is that we have a lot of “Beginner” content but not a lot of “Intermediate” or “Advanced” content on the list. New ideas there may help to encourage a wider variety of workshops.
Re-visit the existing format. Is the Google spreadsheet helpful, or is there a more visible format we can switch to? For example, a highlighted P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. post, TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing., a Google spreadsheet with a link in the Training blog sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme.. Likewise, it might be useful to include prioritization or categorization to help sort workshop ideas.

I see many benefits to keeping these calls for ideas open on a rolling basis, so anyone can add suggestions at any point. With that in mind, feel free to add workshop ideas directly into the Content Wishlist tab and/or leave a comment on this post with input, suggestions, or feedback on the format or any other related ideas.

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Erica Varlese 5:32 pm on March 30, 2021

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Hari Shanker R 9:18 am on March 31, 2021
Thanks for putting this together, @evarlese! I’m really excited about getting new content on Learn, and I would love to see all of these workshops on Learn and for ways for folks to share these ideas to us!
- I reviewed the content wishlist, removed some existing ones (that already have been published to Learn), and added some new suggestions too.
- While a spreadsheet is not the best of tools it’s the most practical one for folks that want to suggest ideas. To make it easier for folks to suggest ideas, perhaps we could even link a Google form to it. In terms of tracking how these ideas are implemented, maybe we could move them to a trelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. board to see where they are at, probably?
- Erica Varlese 6:05 pm on March 31, 2021
  
  Thank you so much for sweeping through the spreadsheet, Hari!
  
  I’m intrigued by the idea of a form! Actually, I wonder if there’s a good way to use the Workshop Presenter Application to gather ideas so it’s all in one place.
  - Hari Shanker R 4:42 pm on April 5, 2021
    
    Ha, that’s an excellent idea! In an ideal world, the Workshop Presenter Application form can be used to accept suggestions as well.
    
    In the meantime, what do you think about building a simple Google form that adds suggestions to a spreadsheet? Perhaps we could add a zapier integration to add new suggestions to a TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. board as well? (Best of both worlds).
- Hari Shanker R 3:37 pm on April 7, 2021
  
  Closing the loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. on this: I’ve decided to give it a hand by trying to create a Google form for storing content suggestions. My goal is to help link it with the existing content planning sheet and to possibly link it to TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. as well. I hope to have the form ready by the end of the week, and will try to get the Trello integration up and running by next week.
  - Erica Varlese 1:17 pm on April 8, 2021
    
    This will be great – thank you so much for tackling it, Hari!
  - Hari Shanker R 2:55 pm on April 9, 2021
    
    Thank you, @evarlese!
    
    I have gone ahead and prepared a Google form to accept responses: https://forms.gle/zVFh9Sx4gUDrHJpS6
    
    Feel free to share any suggestions on the form. If y’all are okay with it, we can consider adding it to the Learn WordPress workshop contribute page as well as the workshop submission form, and in handbook pages, as required.
    
    If required, I’m also happy to play around with Zapier to see how we can embed this into the Training TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. board so that we can find a way to track incoming suggestions? (Or would that be overkill?)
Hauwa Abashiya 3:37 pm on April 1, 2021

Thanks, @evarlese. I agree that whilst not ideal, using the spreadsheet to capture the information is easy to setup. I like @harishanker idea of a form. We could have a form to capture an idea for both lesson plans and workshops. This then populates a spreadsheet and a card is created in TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. or any other tool when it is ready to be worked on. I’m aware that not everyone finds Trello accessible so alternatively, we can create a post on P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. and use that to track the progress of the workshop or lesson plan. The link to the post can be added to the spreadsheet for easy reference.
- Erica Varlese 3:09 pm on April 5, 2021
  
  I think it’s because you mentioned it in the meeting last week, but I really like the idea of using the team blog to store these ideas and I’m a little stuck on it 😀
  
  From what you’ve shared, it sounds like there’s some benefit to collecting ideas for both workshops and lesson plans, likely in the same place. For lesson plans, would those need to be stored in the Training team TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing.?
  
  I also like the idea of automating the process in the future, if it’s possible to get something like the WordCamp application tracker.

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