The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.
If you enjoy helping people learn how to use and build stuff for WordPress, immediately stop what you’re doing and join our team!
Regardless of your skillset, you can help! We need people to write, copyedit, test, audit, connect, and review our lesson plans. Find out how to get started.
The Training Team meets weekly to coordinate tasks and review progress. We meet regularly in SlackSlackSlack 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.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/ Slack channel #training where we communicate with each other. To get up and running on Slack go to make.wordpress.org/chat/ for information.
When writing Agenda or Recap notes, the team has a reusable 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. for each with important details to welcome new contributors. We even have a guide that you can follow.
We then 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. Each task which could be a lesson plan, workshop or course has a corresponding card in 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. whereby all comments are noted on the card. The team is notified in Slack of any updates made in Trello.
All lesson plans follow our development workflow which is outlined below. No one person is expected or should do all the steps mentioned individually.
Topic submitted including outline of content to be presented
Instructional Designer reviews the outline
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 as demo or betaBetaA pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. test