February 2022 Team Sprint

The Training team is using the Sprint method to determine what we are working on and to determine our timeframe for delivery.

What is a Sprint?

Sprints are fixed length events of one month or less to create consistency. A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.

https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-a-sprint-in-scrum

Sprint Goals

Learn Content

We are currently using 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. to manage and keep track of the status of each piece of content on Learn (lesson plans, video workshops and courses). Every piece of content has its own Trello card. The Trello lists represent our Development Workflow, each list contains a card that explains how to use that list.

Types of themes:

• BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. theme: a theme made for FSE using HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. templates and theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML., allowing one to manage all parts of their site with blocks.
• Universal theme: a theme that works with both the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. and the Site Editor.
• Hybrid theme: a classic theme that adopts a feature(s) of FSE, like theme.json or the template editor.
• Classic theme: a theme built with PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. templates, functions.php, and more that does not work with Site Editor.

See FSE Program: Answers from Round Three of Questions for information about the types of themes.

Please keep this in mind when creating and revising content for Learn WordPress.

WordPress 5.9 RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. Needed:

Topic	Lesson Plan	Workshop
Anatomy of a Theme	Trello card Lesson Plan @ironprogrammer
Build a Sitemap for a site	This should be compared to sitemaps already in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Trello card Lesson Plan @azhiyadev Reviewed by @aurooba @webtechpooja
Choosing a Theme	Should clarify the 4 types of themes Trello card Lesson Plan	Should clarify the 4 types of themes Trello card Workshop
Creating a block pattern		Rename from Registering or include both terms Trello card Workshop
Customizer Tagline		Describe how to modify taglines in FSE Trello card Workshop
How to use WordPress Block Patterns	Update to include Featured patterns, wordpress.org/patterns & https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/35773 Trello card Lesson Plan	Update to include Featured patterns, wordpress.org/patterns & https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/35773 Trello card Workshop
Intro to common plugins	Review what plugins are common/popular now, remove mentions of Codex Trello card Lesson Plan @aurooba reviewed by @gudrun
Intro to CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site.	Review how to do this in block themes Trello card Lesson Plan @ reviewed by @gudrun	Include how to do this in block themes – are there areas of CSS that exceed FSE to include Trello card Workshop
Introduction to the Customizer	Mention that this is for Classic and Hybrid themes Trello card Lesson Plan	Mention that this is for Classic and Hybrid themes Trello card Workshop
Managing Widgets	Widgets without customizer in block based themes Trello card Lesson Plan	Managing widgets in classic themes needed Trello card
Setting up a dev environment	Needs to follow lesson plan and workshop formats Lesson Plan
Template Hierarchy	Revise for FSE inclusion Trello card Lesson Plan
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.	consider diagraming this in light of the query loop block Trello card Lesson Plan
Theme Troubleshooting	This will need to be updated to reflect when we have a new lesson plan created about using the styles. Lesson Plan
Troubleshooting basics	update to include Site Health, pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party and native to core Trello card Lesson Plan	Workshop Part 1 Workshop Part 2
W3 total cache	broken images, follow lesson plan format Trello card Lesson Plan
Webfonts	keep an eye on https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/09/28/implementing-a-webfonts-api-in-wordpress-core/ Trello card Lesson Plan
What Are Google XML Sitemaps	I think we should go with Site Kit as that is maintained by Google, and revise the whole article Trello card Lesson Plan
What Is A Theme	Include types of themes, see above Trello card Lesson Plan
What is Contact Form 7	adhere to lesson plan format AND import images from 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/ Trello card Lesson Plan
What Is Wordfence Security	Trello card
What Is Yoast SEO	update this to follow lesson plan format Trello card Lesson Plan
What to include in functions.php	Review for FSE Trello card Lesson Plan
What you can do with WordPress	Remove references to WordPress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ Trello card Lesson Plan
WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Areas	This needs to be updated to also include block based themes Trello card Lesson Plan

WordPress 5.9 New Content Needed:

Topic	Lesson Plan	Workshop
Block Theme Comment Block	Trello card	Trello card
Block Theme Template Hierarchy	Trello card	Trello card
Build a site using a block theme (Twenty Twenty Two)	Trello card	Trello card
Child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/. for block themes	Trello card Lesson Plan @arasae	Trello card
How to set site icons and logo (without Customizer)	Trello card @azhiyadev	Trello card
Difference between reusable blocks, block pattern, templates, template parts	https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson-plan/difference-between-reusable-blocks-block-pattern-templates-template-parts/ @webtechpooja Reviewed by @arasae @rkohilakis @west7 @courane01 @azhiyadev	Trello card
Duotone	Trello card Lesson Plan @webtechpooja	Trello card
Gallery Block	Trello card Lesson Plan @courane01	Trello card
Managing widgets in block themes needed	Trello card	????
Searching Openverse	Trello card	Trello card
Searching and submitting to the photo directory	Trello card	Trello card
Creating a front page in block themes	Trello card Lesson Plan @kemmy99	Trello card
Submitting a block pattern to the directory	Trello card @wes7	Trello card @wes7
Submitting photos to the photo directory	Trello card	Trello card
Template Tour	Trello card Revise Lesson Plan	Trello card
Theme.json	Trello card @arasae	Trello card
Using theme.json with classic themes	Trello card	Trello card
Using widgets in block themes	????	Trello card
Using WordPress in other languages	Trello card Lesson Plan	Needs to reflect the language switcher update Trello card Workshop
What is flex layout and how to configure with block themes	Trello card	Trello card
Query loop	Trello card	Trello card
Featured patterns	????	Trello card
Dimensions in featured images	????	Trello card
How to edit a template part renamed to Using Template Parts	Trello card Lesson Plan @wes7	Workshop @rkohilakis
How to create a template part This was merged back into Using Template Parts	Trello card Lesson Plan @rkohilakis	@rkohilakis
How to use the template part focus mode This was merged into Using Template Parts	Trello card Lesson Plan @rkohilakis	@rkohilakis
Site Editor		@wes7
Template Editor		@wes7

Courses Needed

General

1. Contributor courses

5.9

1. User FSE – Part 2 @west7
2. User FSE – Part 3 @west7

Learn Functionality

1. Style a print-friendly style sheet (transcripts and lesson plans)
   • https://github.com/WordPress/learn/issues/155
2. Integrate speaker feedback tool
3. Google Slides block for Lesson Plans The team is carrying out an audit of the Slides Plugin to ascertain the level of maintenance required and amount of work needed to fix the bug @binarygary @alexstine @danilong
4. Updates to handle course, lesson & quiz flows
5. Automatically recognize contributions on Profiles
6. Fix quiz button styling to match other buttons
7. Learner recognition on WordPress.org profile
8. Use consistent templates and styles across post types
9. Styling for the Details Summary block
10. Modify workshop archive ordering
11. New page showing version-specific content
12. Add new Header

Training Team Goals

1. Team Goals to be delivered by March 2022
   1. Use GitHub Projects in LearnWP repository for managing team activity
   2. Implement a Faculty program (like Community Deputies, name to be determined)
   3. Brainstorm and discovery for the creation of a Needs Analysis
   4. Plan promotions with the Marketing Team
   5. Create Instructor/Facilitator resources portion on LearnWP
2. Ongoing
   1. Fix 404 errors on Learn
   2. HelpScout rotation
   3. Meeting notetakers rotation

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Upcoming Meetings

• Tuesday 17:00 UTC Team meeting, weekly
• Wednesday 11:30 UTC APAC friendly team meeting, weekly
• Friday 11:00 UTC Office hour, weekly
• Friday 14:00 UTC Coffee hour, weekly

You are welcome to join the team at any time! If you are new to the Training Team, please introduce yourself in the #training channel before the meeting (or anytime!) and feel free to join us in the meeting and participate as you are able.

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Training Team Mission

The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.

Getting Involved

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects. Here’s what you need to know to get started.

Team Links

1. Getting Involved:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/
2. About The Team:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/about/ 
3. Our Team Blog:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/ 
4. Learn WordPress:- https://learn.wordpress.org/
5. What We Are Currently Working On This Month:- https://make.wordpress.org/training/category/sprint/
6. Our Content Roadmap:- https://trello.com/b/BsfzszRM/wordpress-training-team-lesson-plan-development 
7. Learn WordPress Issues Log:- https://github.com/WordPress/learn
8. Our YouTube Channel:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxqNA0WORZXWurEP6cNV6w