Currently, we have four courses in development. Here is an overview of what is being worked on and relevant links to follow if you want to learn more.
Block 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. Development Course
@mburridge is continuing to build out the course in Sensei week by week and has recently completed the draft copy of module 2. He has started adding content to Module 3. The intention is to get at least the text part of the course done by the end of August.
We are discussing how we could add video content to the course once the text part has been finalised. Finally, he has a clear plan about how he wants to incorporate activities and assessments to support learners on their learning journey. Follow the Github 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/ Issue for further details.
Github Issue: Block Development
Two Block Theme Development Courses
@psykro and @arasae are in the process of researching and refining the outlines for these two courses, with a focus on course 1. @arasae has completed her course outline, and is in the process of completing rough drafts for the first two modules. She is identifying places as she writes where subject matter experts may weigh in as a super simple way to contribute to a course in progress. @psykro has published his draft outline and is in the process of converting that outline into GitHub issues for content creation. They continue to meet weekly with theme developers to help fill in any gaps in their content creation process.
Github Issues:
Create a Low Code Block Theme
Extend a Low Code Block Theme
You can also find out more about this course in a post titled Block Theme Development Course – Update which was added to the Make WordPress Training page.
Create your First App with Gutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ Data Course
@adamziel has made solid progress and moved over all five tutorial parts of the handbook to Sensei. He will now start adapting them to the course format.
Follow any updates on Github.
Github Issue:
Create your First App with Gutenberg Data
How can you get involved?
We welcome any contributors to share their ideas for relevant courses you would like to see on the Learn platform or to get in touch about creating your own course. The more people that get involved, the better learn.wordpress.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/ will be.
