Triage Squad GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/ triage: Biweekly on Thursdays 07:00 UTC
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.
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.
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Identifying outdated or irrelevant issues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:
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!
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 BlockBlockBlock 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 PluginPluginA 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
N/A
Open Discussions
If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue.
@rjekic: Yes, I started (re)testing everything, and I will inform you and Sebastien soon. Thank you for the support!
@psykro: Awesome, thanks. PingPingThe 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 GitHubGitHubGitHub 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?
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Date: June 27, 2026 Time: 14:00 to 15:00 UTC (local time) Platform: Zoom Recording: internal, not published Moderator: Sumit Singh (@sumitsingh) Note-taker: Rico F. Lüthi (@rfluethi)
This session had three participants. The items in the Recommendations section are therefore explicitly recommendations, not team decisions. Please share feedback by the next weekly Tuesday meeting, as a comment on this post or in the #trainingSlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel.
Participants
Name
WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/ profile
Ibrahim Nasir joined for the first time. He is a Support Engineer at Proper Fraction LLC, has been active on WordPress.org since 2019, and works mainly in the Support team. His experience can help the team with organizational questions.
Context
The session focused on two things: an open review of participation and of how the meeting formats are scoped, and a joint pass through the Office Hours issues in the WordPress/Learn repository. There are around 526 open issues in total; seven of the Office Hours issues were closed in this session. One observation from the group: many people attend the weekly Tuesday meetings, but many of them only read along. For the Office Hours, there is little feedback on whether the format works.
Topics
1. Meeting formats: Office Hours, TT-Admins, and the Tuesday meeting
The group discussed that the Office Hours should be cancelled if they do not reach higher attendance, and that the format is promoted too little at the Tuesday meetings and in the monthly reports. It is striking that the Triage meeting, which has not run for months, is mentioned all the time, while the Office Hours meeting is not. Office Hours without participants are effectively a TT-Admins meeting.
The proposal is to clearly separate the three formats, so it is obvious which topics belong where. The two additional formats (Office Hours and TT-Admins) are public and minuted, so everyone can take part and absent contributors can follow up asynchronously.
Format
Cadence
Purpose
Which topics belong here
Tuesday meeting (main meeting)
weekly
Central information and coordination for the whole team
Overall status, announcements, open proposals and votes, reports from Office Hours and TT-Admins
Office Hours
monthly, public, minuted
Substantive discussion and idea evaluation
Cross-cutting and strategic topics, new ideas and their viability, proposal preparation, open questions, onboarding topics
TT-Admins meeting
scheduled regularly, cancelled when not needed
Administrative processes and issue tracking
Issue triage and backlog maintenance, administrative decisions, responsibilities, operational work
A coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. task of the Office Hours is to evaluate new ideas together first (in a brainstorming issue) before anyone writes a proposal. Small-scale admin and triage work does not belong in the Office Hours; it belongs in the TT-Admins meeting. Whether the TT-Admins meeting and the Triage meeting are kept separate or merged is still to be decided. The split should be written up as a proposal (#3536), discussed, evaluated, and anchored in the handbook.
2. Collaboration instead of single proposals
Ideas should be evaluated together before anyone takes on the effort of a proposal. This is the core task of the Office Hours as a public, minuted space, and the reason a regular live meeting is needed despite fluctuating attendance: direct exchange is hard to replace asynchronously. Sumit shared the view that too few people confirm an idea and drive it forward.
3. Issue pass
Strategy: close completed and outdated tickets, and reopen on objection. Seven of the Office Hours issues were closed in this session. The regular cleanup of the backlog is a standing goal for the coming meetings. The individual issues are listed in the Action Items.
4. Badge system
The badge system feels intransparent to parts of the team. The plan is to collect ideas internally in issue #3487 first, turn them into a public proposal (#3539), and then build a work list with responsibilities and a clear checklist. Important to note: the official badges on profiles.wordpress.org are not assigned by the Training Team alone, but in coordination with the Community and MetaMetaMeta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. teams. The team can clearly define its own contributor recognition; changes to the official badges require coordination with the responsible teams.
5. 2026 goals
Instead of yearly goals, the team should set shorter goals (about three months), so newcomers see the current plans. The goals should be written using the SMART method (specific, measurable, attractive, realistic, time-bound) and stay connected to the team vision and the wider WordPress goals (#3475).
6. Organization and next meeting
If it is decided to continue the Office Hours, the next meeting will probably be on July 26, 2026, 14:00 UTC (#3535). Because Rico cannot attend the Saturday Office Hours in July, the group discussed whether the meeting could move to a Sunday (July 26) as an exception. Otherwise it should take place on Saturday, July 25. Sumit will clarify this.
Recommendations (for the team to confirm)
#
Recommendation
Consensus of attendees
1
Close all issues that have not been touched for a year; reopen on objection by the people involved
Yes
2
Set shorter goals (about three months), write them with SMART, and align them with the vision and the community goals
Yes
3
Add the Office Hours as a fixed item in the weekly meetings and minutes, mention them in the monthly reports, and promote them more visibly
Yes
4
Collect badge ideas, open a proposal, develop a checklist and responsibilities, and coordinate with Community and Meta
Yes, as a proposal
5
Next meeting probably Sunday July 26, 2026 (as an exception) or Saturday July 25, 14:00 UTC, pending Sumit’s clarification
Reach out to Nikola and Maria as a fallback for WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe
Host the BlockBlockBlock 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 workshop for Note Takers
Define badge-hunter filterFilterFilters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. measure
Migrate the Office Hours topic list into the Learn GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/
Date: probably Sunday, July 26, 2026 (as an exception), otherwise Saturday, July 25, 2026; Sumit to confirm Time: 14:00 UTC Issue:#3535 Moderator: open Note-taker: open
#13 Meeting formats: separate Tuesday meeting, Office Hours, and TT-Admins
#14 Office Hours topic collection: migrate the personal project board into the Learn GitHub
#15 Office Hours topics: let contributors prioritize so urgent items surface
#16 TT-Admins meeting and Triage: clear separation vs. merge
#17 Badge system reform: proposal, checklist, and responsibilities with Community and Meta
Get involved and resources
Everyone is welcome to contribute, whether or not they join the Office Hours. Please share feedback on the recommendations by the next Tuesday meeting, as a comment or in Slack.
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.
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 511 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)
Updates from last week’s Triage Squad session
N/A
Other News
Great news for local WordPress communities! You can now request a dedicated channel for your local community on Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. Check out the announcement and guidelines to get started:
Training Team WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2026 Contributor DayContributor DayContributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ Online event video has been published:
We successfully wrapped up our BlockBlockBlock 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 PluginPluginA 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.
If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue.
@organvlasti: I reviewed A handbook copy update proposal #3447 can even propose updates, if needed. Overall, it’s a good work and far better than what we currently have, much more informative and well put together.
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.
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.
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
We’re currently updating the Training Team handbooks and would appreciate your input. To help prioritise translation efforts, which content do you think should be considered high priority for translation?
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 and are making very good progress on 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 511 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. If you have any questions, please comment here
Updates from last week’s Triage Squad session
No meeting last week.
Other News
WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2026 has wrapped up successfully, and what an amazing event it was! It was truly inspiring to see @rjekic on stage representing the Training Team at such a big WordPress community event. One of our team members was part of this important session, and it was great to see the Training Team’s work being shared on the WordCamp Europe stage. You can watch the session here: https://www.youtube.com/live/FgEzLwnfhm4?si=0KUjM_aR9ZtUu8gC&t=7884
Also, a special thanks to @digitalchild and @nikola93n for managing the table lead role for the Training Team. Really appreciate your support and contribution. Thank you so much to both of you!
The German-Language Make WordPress Training Team is hosting the cohort Getting Started with WordPress, a structured course held entirely in German that begins with a kick-off on 14 July 2026 and runs for seven weeks, concluding with a certificate for participants. You can find all details and registration information on the event page.
@andrewssanya: Props to @rjekic@digitalchild and @nikola93n, for representing the #training team at WC Europe. Also thank you @lakshmananphp and @devmuhib for Course cohort – WordPress BlockBlockBlock 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 and bringing it to an end.
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 GitHubGitHubGitHub 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.
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.
The icebreaker question was: Are you going to attend WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2026 Contributor DayContributor DayContributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ online? Contributors shared a mix of responses, with some attending online, some attending in person in Poland, some helping with organization and moderation, and others not able to attend.
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
The team is still in the process of updating the Training Team handbooks and would appreciate input.
To help prioritize translation efforts, which content do you think should be considered high priority for translation?
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 the team will help you organize and start working on these important issues.
Also, the team started working on creating thumbnails for all lessons that need them. You’re very welcome to join 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 511 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.
There is also now a PR open to add the Activity Library to Learn WordPress, pending code review: Add the Activity Library to Learn #3496. Once launched, an online workshop is planned to share how contributors can create their own kits and use the kits that have been built.
Our colleagues from the WordPress Credits program said that they are looking for new mentors who will be prepared to work with the next generation of students. You can find more info and apply for this interesting role by visiting this link: Call for Mentors.
@mosescursor : Props to @tt-admins for continuous management of the training team.
4. Project updates
We’ve completed the BlockBlockBlock 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.
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.
The website is expected to go live in approximately 3–4 weeks.
To improve our organization, we have created a GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/ repository, which will be migrated to the German-language WordPress GitHub.
We are cleaning up and improving the overview of German translations.
And something VERY fresh from the German-Language Make WordPress Training Team:
We’re happy to present the new website of the DACH Regional Group (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). It’s the central place for our work translating Training Team content into German and our learning sessions in German. Have a look here: https://learn-wp-dach.org/
5. Upcoming Online Workshops
N/A
6. Contributor Updates
Contributors were invited to share:
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 another contributor or a Training Team member 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.
A fresh update was shared from the German-Language Make WordPress Training Team: the new website of the DACH Regional Group for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland is now live. It is the central place for the team’s work translating Training Team content into German and organizing learning sessions in German.
@VasantRajput raised a question about the new look of WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/ profiles, noting that while the updated profile view looks good, GitHub activity from issues created in the WordPress/Learn project used to appear in the previous profile activity view but does not seem to appear in the current latest view. He asked where this can be reported, which team would be best placed to look into it, and whether a ticket or issue should be created for follow-up. Contributors who know the right place to raise this are encouraged to share guidance in the meeting 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.
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.
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
We’re currently updating the Training Team handbooks and would appreciate your input.
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 conducted the 6th lesson of our course cohort “WordPress BlockBlockBlock 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”. It’s almost finished. Next week we are going to join a QA session to finish the cohort.
Upcoming Online Workshops
There is no workshop scheduled for this week.
Contributor Updates
What have you been working on and how has it been going?
@roblesloaiza: Hi @devmuhib, I would like to translate the entire WPCredits course into Spanish. I have already been adding translations; however, I would also like to support the project by reviewing those translations and integrating them into the course, since I am a GTEGeneral Translation EditorGeneral Translation Editor – One of the polyglots team leads in a geographic region https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. Further information at https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/glossary/#general-translation-editor for Costa Rican Spanish (es_CR). Could you please guide me on the next steps or let me know where I could receive guidance about the process to follow?
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?
Open Discussions
I am planning to organize a contribution hour where we can join together on a Zoom call and collaboratively work on resolving some issues live. What do you think about the idea?
@rjekic: This is a great proposal – I remember we had something called Study Hours that was a learning-together session. Great.
Since this will be more informal and spontaneous, there will not be any fixed official schedule like the Office Hours. We can simply announce it 1–2 days in advance and organize a session on any suitable day. Other admins can also host similar sessions if they are interested.
Have you noticed that WordPress recently updated the look of their user profiles? What are your thoughts on the new design?
@kpdaa: It is more informative and detail-oriented. Appreciate the new look.
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 that 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.
This was the second session in the new Office Hours format. Since not all participants were available on time and the Learn Zoom account was not accessible at the start, the meeting continued on a private Zoom account.
In terms of content, the meeting picked up the open topics from April 18. Sumit prepared a first version of the 2026 goals, which the team discussed both in substance and in process. The group also discussed how onboarding for new contributors can be made simpler and clearer. Several ideas came up, including improving the handbook and reviving the Guide Program. These topics will be explored in more depth and made concrete in one of the next sessions.
Participants
Name
WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/ Profile
The introductions were shorter than at the kick-off. Huzaifa Al Mesbah from Bangladesh introduced himself as a returning contributor to the Training Team. He has been active in the WordPress community since 2023, mainly in the CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and Test teams, and was recognized as a Noteworthy Contributor with WordPress 7.0. Huzaifa now wants to engage more in the Training Team, which is great news for us, as we welcome an experienced WordPress developer on board. From his perspective as a newcomer to the Training Team, he noted that many people attend the weekly SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ meetings, but the path into active contribution remains unclear.
Topics Discussed
1. 2026 Goals
Discussion:
Sumit prepared a first draft of the 2026 goals and gathered feedback from the team several times. Rico then wrote a revised version on top of that. Both documents will now be read together and consolidated into an official 2026 goals list.
Sumit emphasized that the goals also matter for external communication, for example when contributors at a WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. ask about the team’s focus areas.
We discussed that we are late with defining the 2026 goals. The problem, however, is not that we have no goals, but rather that we have too many, which creates the risk that none of them get achieved. In that context, we also discussed whether it makes sense to define goals on a yearly cycle at all. Experience shows that toward the end of the year we have other priorities than setting goals for the next year. What matters most is that we have goals everyone understands, with a clear purpose, a timeline, and concrete work for implementation. As an alternative approach, the group considered a longer-term goals list from which, for example, the three most important items are picked each quarter and worked on concretely.
For the wording, the goals will be formulated according to SMART criteria (specific, measurable, attractive, realistic, time-bound). The goals will also be aligned with our vision and with the goals of the broader WordPress community, so that they remain connected in content. After the internal evaluation, the consolidated goals list will be published on Make WordPress Training, so that the discussion and decision can happen across the whole team.
Outcome:
Two working documents exist: a first draft by Sumit (with many comments) and a version by Rico.
Both will be read, commented on, and merged at the next meeting by June 27.
The consolidated goals will be formulated according to SMART criteria and aligned with the vision and the community goals.
A model with a longer-term goals list, from which three quarterly priorities are selected for concrete implementation, will be evaluated.
After the evaluation, the goals will be published so that the discussion and decision can happen across the whole team.
Open questions:
Which content from both documents will be taken over?
Which three goals get the highest priority?
Which vision points and community goals should we use for the alignment?
Do we keep the yearly cycle or move to a rolling, quarterly model?
2. Training Handbook Revision
Discussion:
The main problems identified in April still exist: outdated content, a lesson order that is hard to follow, and duplicated titles with different content. Muhibul is working on critical sections. Rico proposed consolidating the handbook first and then translating in a targeted way. A good first step would be to revise the entry sections “About” and “Getting Started” so that they can be translated into different languages when needed. From a newcomer’s perspective, Huzaifa pointed out that the landing page should make the next sensible step clearer.
The group also discussed whether it makes sense to translate the entire handbook at all. A full translation would significantly increase the maintenance and update effort, because every change would have to be carried over to all language versions.
The group also discussed introducing a “Last Reviewed” entry per handbook page. Unlike the original publication date (“first published”), “Last Reviewed” shows at a glance when a page was last checked. This makes the maintenance need visible and manageable, instead of relying on the original date. Vasant added the example of WPForms, where documentation pages show not only the update date but also when the page was last reviewed and who is responsible. A similar display could increase the motivation of contributors to work on individual pages.
Everyone agreed that the handbook must again become a central rulebook that we follow. When content becomes outdated or no longer current, the handbook is updated first. The handbook is the most important rulebook for our teamwork.
Outcome:
Continue the inventory of outdated and duplicated content in the TT-Admins pool.
Prioritize the revision of the “About” and “Getting Started” entry sections so that they can be translated into other languages when needed.
Critically evaluate a full translation of the handbook, since it would significantly increase the maintenance effort.
Prioritize the revision of the handbook landing page.
Introduce a new “Last Reviewed” field instead of “first published”. Use the WPForms example as a reference for the display.
Anchor the handbook as the central rulebook: changes in how we work are reflected in the handbook first.
Open questions:
Who (role or group) takes over which inventory areas?
Who implements the “Last Reviewed” field technically?
Which additional displays (responsible person, review date) do we adopt from the WPForms example?
Which languages do we translate the entry sections into, and who maintains them?
3. Sensei and Learn WordPress Issues
Discussion:
Since the update to WordPress 7.0, Rade can no longer see or edit the templates on Learn WordPress in the Site Editor. Requests to the MetaMetaMeta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team have so far gone unanswered. Rico wants to understand why it keeps happening that the lesson order inside a learning path gets mixed up. Specifically, he wants to know what triggers it, how to prevent it, and how a repair looks if it happens anyway. Without that knowledge, no one wants to work with Sensei, which cannot be in the team’s interest. A direct contact with Sensei developers may be useful. The participants agreed that Sensei has been repeatedly problematic, but a migrationMigrationMoving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. is not realistic in the short term.
For the long-term maintenance of the extensive content on Learn WordPress, it is also essential to define the classification of lessons cleanly, for example through a field for the applicable WordPress version. Otherwise, the team will one day face a content base that is fully outdated and could only be deleted. This topic therefore has high priority.
Outcome:
Bug reports are collected and escalated to the Meta team.
A direct contact with Sensei developers will be sought, focusing on triggers, prevention, and repair of the lesson order issue.
Classification fields for lessons (for example WordPress version) will be defined and introduced with high priority.
Caching and Sensei issues will be addressed together with the Meta team.
Open questions:
Who from the Sensei team can contribute to the root cause analysis?
Which fields do we need at a minimum for the classification of lessons?
4. Onboarding and Guide Program
Discussion:
Huzaifa observed that 30 to 40 people attend the weekly Slack meetings, but many of them do not contribute actively. Rico noted that this impression may not be entirely accurate, because many activities of contributors are not immediately visible. They happen in GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/, in regional groups, and in other places. At the same time, there are surely people who only attend the Tuesday meeting and otherwise find no connection. To improve exactly this, the Guide or Mentor Program should be reactivated, so that no contributors are left who would like to do something but do not know what.
Outcome:
Reactivate the Guide or Mentor Program and promote it in the Slack channel and during onboarding.
Clear entry path on the handbook landing page.
Open questions:
Who takes care of reactivating the Guide or Mentor Program?
How are regional groups connected to the team?
5. Badge System Reform
Discussion:
The participants discussed the fundamental problem of the badge system. Badge hunters take up noticeable team time because they sign up for roles without bringing the basics along, and after receiving the badge, they are no longer active. Since this cannot be solved at the global level, the Training Team should develop its own pragmatic approach. This way, we avoid losing more time both through badge hunters themselves and through endless discussions about the badge system.
Outcome:
Collect concrete measures that the Training Team can implement on its own, without the Make team.
Communicate clearly to the whole team, with responsibilities and a timeline for the implementation.
Set up a review of the improvements in one year.
Open questions:
Where do we collect the suggestions?
Who takes care of turning them into a clear action plan?
6. Help Scout and Zoom Access for TT-Admins
Discussion:
The Zoom access was not available at the start of the session, because verification runs through Help Scout, and Help Scout access is only open to Team Reps. Muhibul explained that the Meta team has declined to extend the access, because the account also holds sensitive inboxes from other teams. Rade proposed a workaround: export the Help Scout tickets as a CSV, review them in the TT-Admins pool, and transfer only the relevant ones into GitHub issues. Rico pointed out that in his company a single Zoom account is shared with a passkey among ten people.
Outcome:
CSV export as an interim solution, with manual triage by TT-Admins.
In the medium term, talk with the Meta team about a leaner workflow.
The Zoom link will from now on be documented in the GitHub issue.
Open questions:
Who sets up the CSV export workflow?
How is responsibility for the Zoom account handled in the interim?
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Discussion:
A specific note-taker incident led to the proposal of a mandatory “Block Editor Basics” workshop. Sumit takes over the concept. Vasant complements it with a screencast tutorial for recurring TT tasks.
Outcome:
Sumit hosts the live workshop, records it, and publishes it on Learn WordPress.
Vasant creates a screencast tutorial.
Both formats are anchored in onboarding as a mandatory step before taking on the note-taker role.
Open questions:
Who handles the editing of the recordings?
Where do we publish the workshop, and how do we communicate the “mandatory workshop”?
8. Meeting Organization and Next Meeting
Discussion:
Starting with the next meeting, Sumit will take over the Zoom link preparation through the Learn account and document it in the GitHub issue. The moderator informs the Slack channel the day before the session and one hour before the start, and publishes the main topic in advance.
We all agreed that the Office Hours meeting must not turn into a Coffee Hours meeting, even though there is a clear need for social exchange. An Office Hours meeting needs detailed preparation: the tasks from the previous meeting are reviewed, and clear agenda items for the current meeting are set. Both are communicated in advance, so that participants can prepare and the meeting runs efficiently. The meeting concept serves as the reference.
Vasant proposed that the tasks decided at the meeting be communicated to everyone afterwards, with an invitation for several people to sign up per task and work on it together.
Outcome:
Sumit hosts the next meeting and provides the Zoom link.
The reminder routine becomes binding (day before and one hour before).
Meeting flow follows the published concept; adjustments are documented in the handbook.
After the meeting, an issue list is created with one issue per task, where people can sign up to work on it.
Next meeting: Saturday, June 27, 2026, 14:00 UTC.
Open questions:
Who takes notes on June 27?
Which tasks go into the issue list?
Decisions
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Decision
Consensus?
1
The 2026 goals will be consolidated from two working documents: a first draft by Sumit and a revised version by Rico. All TT-Admins comment on both by June 27
Yes
2
Three prioritized main goals will then be published as a blog post on Make WordPress Training
Yes
3
A separate TT-Admins meeting after the Tuesday Slack meeting
Yes
4
Sumit takes over the Zoom link generation through the Learn account and documents it in the GitHub issue
Yes
5
The Block Editor workshop becomes mandatory before the note-taker role
Yes
6
Vasant additionally creates a screencast tutorial for the note takers
Yes
7
After each meeting, an issue list is created with one issue per task; contributors sign up there themselves
Yes
8
The moderator follows the defined meeting concept; adjustments are made immediately and documented in the handbook
Yes
9
A “Last Reviewed” field will be introduced in the handbook, instead of “first published.”
Yes
10
Next Office Hours meeting on June 27, 2026, 14:00 UTC, moderation by @sumitsingh
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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.
Important note: If anyone needs to know more about Note Taking and need guide in creating a Recap Note Post then you can DM to @VasantRajput. He will guide you for a Recap Note and he will review & publish your Recap Post.
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:
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Project updates
We’ve completed the BlockBlockBlock 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.
The next meeting is scheduled for the 23rd of May. Come and join us, and help us shape the future of the WordPress Training Team.
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 GitHubGitHubGitHub 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
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.
Important note: If anyone needs to know more about Note Taking and need guide in creating a Recap Note Post, then you can DM @VasantRajput. He will guide you for a Recap Note, and he will review & publish your Recap Post.
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
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.
Looking for volunteers
Update Handbook: High Priority Content to Translate #3439
Are you ready to take your WordPress skills to the next level and start building your own BlockBlockBlock 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. Themes from scratch? Announcing the Training Team Cohort: “Block Theme Development in WordPress” – https://make.wordpress.org/training/2026/03/30/announcing-the-training-team-cohort-block-theme-development-in-wordpress/
The next meeting is scheduled for the 23rd of May. Come and join us and help us shape the future of the WordPress Training Team.
Upcoming Online Workshops
N/A
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?
@SumitSingh: I am working on making the ticket as per the shared feedback on the Help Scout ticket.
@VasantRajput: Working on a thumbnail generation project and also working to upload generated thumbnails to lessons, so next we will check again which lessons have a missing thumbnail and make a list of those.
@VasantRajput: Okay, thank you so much, @Andrewssanya. I will DM you for that. Planning is to update thumbnails as much as possible before WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2026
Open Discussions
If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue.
What’s your plan in 2026 related to WordPress?
Currently, no new topics have been raised, but asynchronous contributions are welcome via the Slack thread to continue the discussion.
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.
The icebreaker question was: What made you join the WordPress community? Contributors shared that they joined for networking, learning from the WordPress ecosystem, the flexibility and openness of WordPress, the supportive community, and the fun of being part of the community.
The team is currently updating the Training Team handbooks and would appreciate input. If you find any handbook page that is outdated, feel free to suggest an update.
The team currently has around 456 open issues. It would be great to get support in reviewing and reducing them.
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.
The Training Team managed to cover the WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Asia 2026 Contributor DayContributor DayContributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ both in the live session in Mumbai, India, and online. Read all about it in this P2P2P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org article: WordCamp Asia 2026 Contributor Day Recap
The next meeting is scheduled for 23 May. Come and join us, and help us shape the future of the WordPress Training Team.
5. Upcoming Online Workshops
N/A
6. Contributor Updates
Contributors were invited to share:
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 issue.
There were no open discussion topics raised during the meeting. If anyone has anything to add asynchronously, please reply in the meeting thread and the team can keep the discussion going.
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.