The WordPress training team creates downloadable lesson plans and related materials for instructors to use in live environments. If you enjoy teaching people how to use and build stuff for WordPress, immediately stop what you’re doing and join our team!
Regardless of your skill set, you can help! We need people to write, copyedit, test, audit, connect, and review our lesson plans. Find out how to get started.
We hope you take an interest in the team’s work and continue to bring your skills and passion to the team by joining us in our SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel and attending the weekly meetings.
Choose a card from the “Lesson Plan Backlog” list on the TrelloTrelloProject management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. board
Add yourself to the card (“Add Member”)
Find the lesson plan’s repo on GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/
Fork the dev branch to your own GitHub account
Create a branch on your personal repo, name it dev- + your username (i.e., the dev-{username} branch)
Do your writing on the README.md file in that branch (or you can do it elsewhere and copy it in later) and save your work with descriptive commit messages
If images need to be updated or re-created, place them in the /images/ folder and use a relative link (i.e., /images/filename.png) to include them in the README.md file
Creating slides is not a priority at the moment
When you are done working on the lesson plan, submit a pull request back to the wptrainingteam repo’s dev branch
Choose a card from the “User Lesson Plans Ready for Drafting”, “Theme Lesson Plans Ready for Drafting”, or “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 Lesson Plans Ready for Drafting” lists on the Trello board
Add yourself to the card (“Add Member”)
Drag the card to the “Lesson Plan Drafts in Progress” list
Find the lesson plan’s repo on GitHub
Fork the dev branch to your own GitHub account
Create a branch on your personal repo, name it dev- + your username (i.e., the dev-{username} branch)
Do your editing on the README.md file in that branch (or you can do it elsewhere and copy it in later) and save your work with descriptive commit messages
If images need to be updated or re-created, place them in the /images/ folder and use a relative link (i.e., /images/filename.png) to include them in the README.md file
Creating slides is not a priority at the moment
When you are done working on the lesson plan, submit a pull request back to the wptrainingteam repo’s dev branch.
Choose a card from the “Lesson Plans Ready for Copyediting” list on the Trello board
Add yourself to the card (“Add Member”)
Drag the card to the “Lesson Plan Copyediting in Progress” list
Find the lesson plan’s repo on GitHub
Fork the dev branch to your own GitHub account
Create a branch on your personal repo, name it dev- + your username (i.e., the dev-{username} branch)
Do your editing on the README.md file in that branch (or you can do it elsewhere and copy it in later) and save your work with descriptive commit messages
If images need to be updated or re-created, place them in the /images/ folder and use a relative link (i.e., /images/filename.png) to include them in the README.md file
Creating slides is not a priority at the moment
When you are done working on the lesson plan, submit a pull request back to the wptrainingteam repo’s dev branch.