Training Team Meeting Recap – 23rd June 2026

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 34 attendees: @abduremon, @palak678, @vanpariyar, @rjekic, @dilip2615, @rfluethi, @csheba, @mosescursor, @andrewssanya, @nikola93n, @pravin1996, @ravigadhiyawp, @sonaliprajapati, @psykro, @sumitjavia, @vishitshah, @jenish1234, @ibrahimkh4l33l, @makanikaran, @huzaifaalmesbah, @nitspatel, @pooja-n, @freewebmentor, @vasantrajput, @rithika3, @devmuhib (async), @sumitsingh (async), @valeriewandeler (async), @sibokul (async), @ranupatel11 (async), @harshjadav003 (async), @ursha (async), @jagirbahesh (async)

Newcomers: @wpircles, @bollullera1, @mhrifat, @kaushik1111

Meeting hosted by: @rjekic

Note Taker: @andrewssanya

Note Reviewer: @VasantRajput

Welcome! Please post in the #training channel or reach out to a team member to help you with contributing. Resources to check out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program.

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note taker roster:

Important note: If anyone needs to know more about note-taking and needs guidance in creating a Recap Note Post, they can DM @VasantRajput. He will guide you for a Recap Note and he will review & publish your Recap Post.

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: Create Thumbnails for Learn WordPress Lessons #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    • Identifying outdated or irrelevant issues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 :crossed_swords:

Updates from last week’s Triage Squad session

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Other News

Come and Contribute

This week’s contribution focus area

Contribution Acknowledgement

  • Badges awarded
    • Training Contributor badge is awarded to @valeriewandeler, but since she is not here in this moment, @Rico can come to the stage and pick it up for her! Let’s give a round of warm applause for them!
  • Give Props:
    • @mosescursor:
      • Props to @Rade Jekic for leading today’s meeting
      • Props to @SAndrew for his countless efforts in progressing in the training contribution
      • Props to @tt-admins for supporting the new members, especially when I was away

Project updatesS

  • We successfully wrapped up our 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 Development Course cohort last week, 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 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. 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. If you want to guide or to be guided, just leave a message in the #training channel and someone will help you

Upcoming Online Workshops

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Open Discussions

  • If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue.
    • @andrewssanya: I’m working on the Thumbnails and aim is to complete them.
    • @psykro: @rjekic, I just wanted to follow up on our chat at WCEU with Sebastien from Polylang. I think you mentioned the only outstanding issue to sort out is this https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3277?
      • @rjekic: Yes, I started (re)testing everything, and I will inform you and Sebastien soon. Thank you for the support!
      • @psykro: Awesome, thanks. PingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me if you need any support with anything. And if I don’t reply in 24-48 hours in 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/, feel free to DM me here, as I sometimes miss a GitHub notification in all the noise from other repositories
  • What’s your plan in 2026 related to WordPress?

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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