This week’s meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026, at 07:00 UTC. The meeting will be held on Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/, in the #training channel. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the meeting by commenting in Slack threads during the meeting and throughout the following days. Meeting notes will be published by the following Tuesday to also incorporate these asynchronous conversations.
This week’s meeting will be hosted by @rjekic.
1. Intro/Welcome
Welcome to all new teammates who joined the Training Team this week!
2. News
- Meeting Note Takers
- Looking for feedback
- Looking for volunteers
- 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:
https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3428
- We currently have 530 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- Identifying outdated or irrelevant issues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-organized
- Updates from last week’s Triage Squad session
- Other announcements and news
2. Come and Contribute
3. Contribution Acknowledgement
4. Project updates
- We successfully wrapped up our 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 Course cohort, with eight students participating throughout the program. It was a great learning experience, giving participants hands-on exposure to modern WordPress theme development.
- Building on this momentum, we are excited to launch our next cohort focused on Plugin 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. Development next month. We look forward to helping more students expand their WordPress skills and explore new opportunities within the open-source ecosystem.
- @vasantrajput is mentoring a few students in the Training team Guide program.
5. Upcoming Online Workshops
6. Contributor Updates
- What have you been working on, and how has it been going?
- Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
- Do you have any blockers?
- Can other contributors 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 post.
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.
