How We Work Together

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The Training team uses the Sprint method to determine what we are working on and to determine our timeframe for delivery. To find what the team is working on visit our Blog or Content Trello Roadmap.

Meetings Meetings

The Training Team meets weekly to coordinate tasks and review progress. We meet regularly in 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/., an online chatroom. A few times per year we hold our meeting by video conferencing.

  • Join the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The 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/ Slack channel #training where we communicate with each other. To get up and running on Slack go to make.wordpress.org/chat/ for information.
  • Attend our next weekly chat Tuesday 16:00 UTC or office hours Friday 10:00 UTC on our Slack channel. That is a great way to find out what we are working on and how you can jump in.
  • Meeting agendas and recap notes are posted on our blog. Commenting there is encouraged!

When writing Agenda or Recap notes, the team has a reusable 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. for each with important details to welcome new contributors. We even have a guide that you can follow.

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Organizing Tasks Organizing Tasks

The Training team is using the Sprint method to determine what we are working on and to determine our timeframe for delivery. 

What is a Sprint?

https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-a-sprint-in-scrum

We use a shared Trello board to manage our current projects, progress, and needs. You can see what the team is currently working on and items that are available and need a hand.

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Our Development Workflow Our Development Workflow

All lesson plans follow our development workflow which is outlined below:

  • Links to Support and Developer Docs
  • Finalise Description and Objectives
  • Marketing Communications Resources
  • SEO Review
  • Review Related Material on Learn Review
  • Draft Lesson Plan
  • Instructional review
  • Copy edit
  • Style guide review
  • Final review
  • Publish

See our How to Guides or view our Content Trello board for more detail on each step.

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Lesson Plan Repository Lesson Plan Repository

Our lesson plans and supporting materials are written and stored in Learn WordPress.

Got an idea for a lesson plan, go to Learn WordPress.

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Submitting Issues Submitting Issues

If you have a theme or functionality related issue, please submit it to https://github.com/WordPress/learn/issues/.

If you have ideas for Edit Flow functionality, please submit it to https://github.com/Automattic/Edit-Flow/issues.

Issues relating to the lesson plan, use Report Content Errors to let us know.

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