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Introductions and Welcome
There were 28 attendees: @noruzzaman, @rithika3, @rjekic, @abduremon, @rfluethi, @ravigadhiyawp, @dilip2615, @pooja-n, @ishahinakhter, @makanikaran, @sumitsingh, @jenish1234, @harshjadav003, @mosescursor, @andrewssanya, @huzaifaalmesbah, @VasantRajput, @shivam, @vishitshah, @pravin1996, @mohkatz (async), @sibokul (async), @bigod (async), @valeriewandeler (async), @muddassirnasim (async), @sonaliprajapati (async), @jagirbahesh (async), @ursha (async)
Newcomers: @hurairah922, @mayank2000, @moazwaleed, @abdullah17, @axmh1985, @coreyhall93, @organvlasti
Meeting hosted by: @rjekic
Note Taker: @jenish1234
Note Reviewer: @VasantRajput
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News
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Looking for feedback
- We’re currently updating the Training Team handbooks and would appreciate your input. To help prioritize translation efforts, which content do you think should be considered high priority for translation? Feedback – Suggest High Priority Content #3400
Looking for volunteers
- Our colleague @devmuhib updated two handbook pages, which can be used as guidance:
- We need your help in finding all the content that could be updated and consolidated. We would love to have two groups of volunteers – one that will go through all the handbook content, and one that will check the courses. Please state your interest, and we will help you organize and start working on these important issues.
- Also, we started working on creating thumbnails for all lessons that need them. You’re very welcome to join us and contribute to this important and creative project. Here’s the issue with details on how to work on the remaining thumbnails:
- We currently have 465 open issues. It would be great to get support in reviewing and reducing their number. You can help by:
- Going through issues one by one
- Identifying outdated or irrelevant issues
- Suggesting fixes or next steps
- Adding comments where needed (before closing or updating)
- Let’s work together to clean up and keep the repository well-organised
Update for last weeks triage squad
Other news
Come and Contribute
This week’s contribution focus area
Contribution Acknowledgement
- Badges Awarded
- No badge awarded this week.
- Give Props
- Let’s give props! Do you have someone from the team you want to celebrate?
Project updates
- We’ve completed the 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. Theme Development learning pathway, but we’d still love your feedback to help improve it further – Block Theme Development Course Cohort Learning Pathway Development #3381
- The first Training Team Office Hours meeting is held on April 18th. Big thanks to @rfluethi for this great initiative and hosting the first Training Team Office Hours.
- Status Update from the German-Language Make WordPress Training Team
- The planned Guided Cohort has been rescheduled from April 14, 2026 to July 14, 2026 due to scheduling conflicts.
- The Self-Directed Cohort (German) will launch on April 21, 2026.
- Our website is expected to go live in approximately 3–4 weeks.
- To improve our organization, we have created a GitHub repository, which will be migrated to the German-language WordPress 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/
- We are cleaning up and improving the overview of German translations
Upcoming Online Workshops
Contributor Updates
- What have you been working on, and how has it been going?
- @sumitsingh: I am working on #training team goal 2026 and checking content feedback for learn or Training website.
- @andrewssanya: I’m working on a local content translation
- @bigod: Working on the German-Language Make WordPress Training Team Website
- Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
- Do you have any blockers?
- Can another contributor or Training Team members help you in some way?
Open Discussions
- If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue.
- Looks like we don’t have anything at the moment. If anyone has anything async, please reply in this thread, and we can keep the discussion going.
- And that concludes this week’s meeting. Thanks to all who participated in sync and to those who will in the future.
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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