Training Team Meeting Recap – 2nd September 2025

This meeting followed this meeting agenda in GitHub. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. account, you can set one up.)

Introductions and Welcome

There were 33 attendees:: @dilip2615, @getsyash, @vasantrajput, @ravigadhiyawp, @dhruvang21, @rjekic , @clk87, @muddassirnasim, @devmuhib, @nikunj8866, @mohkatz, @vishitshah, @mosescursor, @jojo256, @andrewssanya, @utsav72640, @rfluethi (async), @noruzzaman (async), @rraventos (async), @bigod (async), @valeriewandeler (async), @benazeer (async), @mebo (async), @zeelthakkar (async), @sonaliprajapati (async), @sumitsingh (async), @jagirbahesh (async), @jaydipgoswami (async), @studionashvegas (async), @nishitajoshi (async), @sibokul (async), @rithika3 (async), @quitevisible (async)

Newcomers: @arnasklim, @studionashvegas, @arnasd, @joesimpsonjr, @amyelizdal, @samirankakoty, @aaronosmond, @bandicootmarketing, @jcacevedo13, @gabijakal, @bullseyechris, @jdavidkennedy, @aestrada88, @lunadwivedi, @tomd1009, @lucyc, @paupaupau555, @jairanganathan, @ahadyoast
Note taker: @vasantrajput
Meeting hosted by: @devmuhib

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1. News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note-taker roster:

Looking for feedback

  • We’ve had a lot of discussions around the certification process, but now it’s time to move things forward. We’re considering issuing certificates specifically for course cohort students. Unlike automated course completion certificates which can sometimes be misused cohorts are different. In a cohort, students must actively participate in regular classes, complete assessments, and pass an exam before earning a certificate.
    • We’d love your feedback to refine this process and move ahead. You can find more details here: #3247

Looking for volunteers

  • We’re planning to organize local workshops to make the sessions more engaging and inspiring. Whether you’re a first-time speaker or an experienced presenter, if you feel confident covering a WordPress-related topic, you’re welcome to participate. You can also choose to co-host a workshop by teaming up with someone who already has speaking experience at different events.
    • If you’re interested in volunteering for this task, simply leave a comment, and we’ll provide the necessary instructions to get started.

Update for last week’s triage squad

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Other news

2. Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

Good first issues for developers

Validated feedback awaiting fix

3. Contribution Acknowledgement

Badges Awarded

Give Props

Let’s give props! Do you have someone from the team you want to celebrate? 

4. Project updates

  • We finished Week 3 of the 6-week cohort titled “WordPress 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. Editor Basics“. You can find more details here.
  • Planning to arrange local workshops.

5. Upcoming Online Workshops

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6. Contributor Updates

  • What have you been working on and how has it been going?
    • @mohkatz: We’re working on translating a few documents into mainly Luganda and Kinyarwanda, and also Swahili, almost done with WP Credits presentation translation and a few others and we will submit soon hopefully in the next few days. Also planning on translating some more and helping review and edit any errors or typos in existing ones in English. As well as plan for supporting and organizing local training Meetups in Jinja and support or co-host any workshops here.
  • Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
  • Do you have any blockers?
  • Can other contributor or Training Team members help you in some way?

7. Open Discussions

  • If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue. Slack Thread


You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.

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