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 โpull requestโ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ triage: Biweekly on Thursdays 07:00 UTC
For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted onย Learn.WordPress.org.
Note takers, please remember to wait until the Tuesday following the meeting to publish the notes. This allows team members time to read and provide asynchronous comments.
After publishing the notes, please comment in the meeting agendaโs 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 โpull requestโ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue with the link to the notes and then close the issue.
Training Team 2024 Half Year Reviewย is out! Letโs celebrate another 6 months of goals and projects accomplished! Please read through the post and share any additional thoughts in the comments.
Do we need a separateย LearnWP Topic Vetting boardย for vetting topics? The teamโs dynamics have changed since then, so letโs reevaluate. What is the value of having a dedicated board for topic vetting? Could we add back a column at the left of theย LearnWP Content- Development boardย for issues waiting vetting?
According to @bsanevans Last year, SMEs struggled to find relevant issues to vet due to all topics being in a single column, leading to a backlog of 100+ issues. The topic vetting project board, with its categoryCategoryThe 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. tabs, made it easier for SMEs to locate their issues. Now, only 5 issues are waiting to be vetted, a significant improvement from last year. This change allows us to consider reverting to a single column in the content development project board. The backlog was primarily due to Training creating many new issues per release, but this process has paused, making the vetting board more manageable.
@piyopiyofox closed all Lesson Plans and Tutorials unless requested to be converted into a Lesson. The team could benefit from an editorial calendar for release-related content and a general checklist to vet other content for relevancy and priority.
@webcommsat consider using the Dev Blog model for idea planning and discussion, though the emoji thumb voting might not work due to more people involved in training. Using GitHub for planning could be effective. We can 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. the existing board for ideas and adapt some Dev Blog practices for training. This could also aid in cross-mapping and linking published items, which is increasingly important. I already consider training when reviewing new Dev Blog ideas and posts.
At 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 theyโve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. EUโs 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://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., the team began creating thumbnails for Learn content, but many more are needed. @zoonini is hosting an online workshop next week to continue this effort. Click the link above to sign up and join the Thumbnail-a-thon!
Updates from last weekโs dev-squad triage session
@zooniniย will be leading this transition and will let the team know of next-steps soon.
As of today, weโll be closing the Faculty application form.
New team meeting section โ โContributor Updatesโ. Although the Faculty program is ending, the โFaculty Updatesโ section in team meetings has been valuable. We want to continue this tradition and invite all training team members to share their current issues or projects.
Starting next week, the โFaculty Updatesโ section will be renamed โContributor Updatesโ and all 2,655 Training Team members are invited to share their updates.
@piyopiyofox has been cleaning up the Topic Vetting Board by closing non-Lesson, non-Learning Pathways, and non-Online Workshop issues. We will next close similar issues in the Content Development Project board.
Suggestion to pause new Tutorial Presenter applications.Weโre temporarily closing the Tutorial application form due to spam. Weโre focusing on updating the content creator application process while keeping the Online Workshop facilitator application form open for vetted submissions. Please share any questions or thoughts in the threads above.
Props: Special thanks to all the contributors who created thumbnail graphics for the new Learn WordPress site during and after WCEU Contributor Day. A particular shout-out to @sumitsingh and @bsanevans!
Props: @agiljulio for his work on creating the final video lessons for the Beginner developer learning pathway.
Learn WordPress Thumbnail creationย ( From @zoonini ) The thumbnail creation project needs more help, and itโs fun to do! These graphics are used for courses, lessons, and tutorials on the new site. Check out examples in the Featured Courses and Courses sections on the new site, which can be previewed here. Join our โthumbnail-a-thonโ online workshop on June 25 at 17 UTC to learn how to create themโno graphic design skills needed!
New learner satisfaction surveys on Learn WordPress contentย ย ( From @zoonini ) The Training team plans to add anonymous satisfaction surveys to Learn.WordPress.org courses, aiming for an average score of at least 4 out of 5. These surveys will measure satisfaction, gather improvement suggestions, assess skill confidence, and collect optional testimonials Hereโs the draft survey. Survey results will be regularly reviewed, and feedback will be shared with content creators. Please provide feedback on the draft survey by July 3.
Open Discussions
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 theย #trainingย Slack channel at any time.
For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted onย Learn.WordPress.org.
Meeting recap notes are one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team, and you can find details on how to write notes on thisย handbook page.
Looking for feedback
The Training Team has had anย Administration project boardย 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 โpull requestโ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ for a couple of years. With the majority of project tracking now happening on the team blog, team reps are planning on cleaning out the board, leaving just the meeting agenda and handbook feedback items. Are any team members still actively using this board?
Looking for volunteers
@Jonathanย andย @westnzย started triaging the Tutorials inย this spreadsheet, marking those that the team should keep, modify, or retire. There are still over 100 Tutorials that need triaging. Feel free to add your thoughts directly in the spreadsheet, or comment here if you need assistance.
Other News
Ourย WordCamp Europe 2024 Contributor Dayย post is now up for contributors to review. You can participate either in person or online, so click this link to find out how to contributeย Try and get a group photo.
Join our June Content Creation Coffee Hours! Itโs a great chance for anyone working on or interested in learning pathway content to meet, discuss projects, ask questions, or find new content to work on. Meetings alternate between two time zones each month.
Check out these informal discovery and Q&A sessions about the Five for the Future program at WCEU this week for companies interested in joining. Sessions are on Saturday, June 15, at 9:00 AM and 3:15 PM, meeting at the Community Booth. The location might change based on attendance. Spread the word and refer to the newly published Five for the Future Handbook for more information. Thank you!
A new handbook page on Video Best Practices has been published, featuring an embedded online workshop. For the list of resources, please share any other free video editing software you recommend for their excellent performance.
What have you been working on and how has it been going?
@lada7042 created a lesson on the Group 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. and worked on video editing and publishing. She encountered issues but received assistance from @westnz.
@piyopiyofox began as a Guide in the Guide Program, onboarded @Jamie Madden as a new co-rep, and is actively involved in the content maintenance proposal while creating a half-year goals post.
@westnz has recently created two new lessons for the Intermediate user learning pathway and is involved in the Guide program.
@devmuhib recently co-hosted workshops on โWordPress Support Engineer Roles and Responsibilitiesโ and โTraining 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 theyโve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe Contributor Day Onlineโ with @jagirbahesh. He is actively managing HelpScout tickets, onboarded two new content creators this week, and is currently triaging GitHub issues related to content translation.
@zoonini is currently coordinating a thumbnail creation/replacement project, matching guides with new contributors, and overseeing the Faculty program retirement proposal. She is also involved in coordinating marketing and communication plans for the site relaunch and recently hosted an online workshop with @westnz on recording impressive demos.
Anything youโve accomplished since the last meeting?
@westnz is completing work on the custom post-type video.
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 theย #trainingย Slack channel at any time.
We got some input from a Marketing team member last week. Please continue to contribute to this conversation byย providing your thoughts on the post by June 13th.
The team has had an administration project board for a couple of years. With the majority of project tracking now happening on the team blog, team reps are planning on cleaning out the board, leaving just meeting agenda and handbook feedback items.ย Are any team members still actively using this board?
Faculty program retirement
Weโd like to share a proposal to retireย the Faculty program in its current form. This proposal was already discussed within the Faculty group, and since the overall consensus was to go ahead with retiring the program, weโre now sharing the proposal with the whole team before we move forward with any of the suggested steps.
@bsanevans has proposed the below plan to the team and team agreed on that. Below are the @bsanevans proposal:
Firstly, we wanted to give a huge thank you for all your hard work in keeping things running so smoothly. Thanks to you all, weโve been able to set up team processes, catch up on a backlog of tasks, and set ourselves up for future success.
Over the past while, weโve observed that the Faculty program is due for a rethink. For example, many folks in the Faculty group are no longer active on the team at all, and there are many roles that are under-used and difficult to recruit for. As well, thereโs a level of administrative overhead thatโs somewhat complicated, and having to be part of the Faculty program may be seen by contributors as a barrier to doing certain types of work on the team. Finally, the now-established Guide Program serves as a welcoming path for people to get more involved in the team.
Weโve been thinking of ways to streamline things to make the team run more efficiently. In turn, this should free up time to focus more on higher-impact areas.
In thinking things over, weโd like to suggest retiring the Faculty program in its current form. We propose the following steps:
Add a new area in the handbook, outlining the history ofย Learn.WordPress.orgย and the Training team. This section would also include the names of past team reps and Faculty members, so that folksโ contributions are visible and recognized in the context of the Training teamโs history.
Shift the work done by the current Faculty Admin group to a smaller group of administrators, starting with the team reps. Additional admins will be added over time, while the current admin needs of the team are reassessed. We will likely look for Training team members who have made consistent contributions over the last 6-12 months.
Update the handbook to remove the Faculty Program section.
Feedback on sharing experienced content creator processes with the team
@psykroย andย @west7ย have identified a need for content creators to view their content creation process. They plan to add the following links as additional resources to the โCreate a Lessonโ page. They are also considering creating an informal video recording of these processes to support visual learners.ย We welcome any feedback or concerns you might have regarding this plan.
To simplifyย Learn.WordPress.org, two content types will be gradually phased out: tutorials and lesson plans. As a first step, before launching the new site some outdated tutorials are going to be unpublished. A redirect will be added for each one, to send visitors to the most relevant alternative content.
@west7 andย @psykroย have already started going through all existing tutorials to note whether they should be kept, deprecated (unpublished), or updated.
We are looking for volunteers to continue going throughย the rest of the tutorialsย to indicate the status of each (keep/deprecate/update) and a potential redirect URLURLA specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a websiteโs URL www.wordpress.org.ย If you are available, please make edits directly to the spreadsheet.
Note that some of this content is in languages other than English, but you could use an online translation tool to translate the tutorial title to help determine whether itโs still relevant or has a more up-to-date equivalent tutorial or lesson.
You can participate either in person or online, so click this link above to find out how to contributeย ย 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 theyโve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. EU 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://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. will be happening on June 13th.
The WordPress Projectโs Video Thumbnail Generator
The WordPress project has a new handbook pageย on how to create video and event thumbnails.ย Going forward, please use this thumbnail generator for all thumbnails that need to be created for Courses, Lessons, and Online Workshops.
When using the generator, please first watch the walkthrough video shared onย the handbook page. Iโll also link the video here:
All Online Workshops going forward should use the same pale blue template as this image. This is also notedย in our handbookย
This is a big process change for the team. So donโt hesitate to ask questions in this channel as you get used to using the thumbnail generatorย ย
After WordCamp Europe, I will be absent from the team for three months, taking a sabbatical from work and WordPress contributions. Iโll be back from September 25th, though, so donโt worryย
While Iโm away,ย @digitalchildย will be stepping in as interim team lead. Please see the post above for more details.
This is an opportunity for anyone working on learning pathway content or anyone interested in learning pathway content to meet, discuss what content they are working on, ask questions, or find content to work on for the learning pathways. Currently, we alternate meetings between two time zones each month.
Jonathanโ13 June 2024 @ 14:00 UTCย (The Zoom link will be shared the day before the session and again on the day of the session, just before it begins.)
We found out this week that the Learn news letter wasnโt sending to subscribers until nowย ย Thanks toย @adamwoodย for identifying this issue, and fixing it in preparation for the site relaunch.
One exciting development is that a theme switcher now lets you preview the new theme on the production siteProduction SiteA production site is a live site online meant to be viewed by your visitors, as opposed to a site that is staged for development or testing., with all its data. You can try it at:ย https://learn.wordpress.org/?new-theme=1
Open Discussion
First of all, thank you toย @lada7042@zooniniย andย @west7ย for adding additional meeting topics onย the GitHub agendaย beforehandย ย Each week, if anybody else has topics theyโd like discussed, feel free to add it to the agenda so we can dedicate space for it within the meetingย
And finallyโฆ Was there any other topic folks wanted to bring up today?
Itโs just one more week until WordCamp Europe startsย ย I canโt wait to present all the exciting things the Training Team has been doing with Learning Pathways and the site redesignย
And with that, Iโll close this weekโs meeting. Thanks to everyone who attend live, and to everyone who attended asynchronously. See you all next week!ย
You can see all meetings scheduled onย this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk throughย our onboarding programย to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in theย #trainingย Slack channelย at any time.
For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted onย Learn.WordPress.org.
Our WordCamp Europe 2024 Contributor Day post is now available for review. You can participate either in person or online. Click this link to learn how to contribute.
The Training Team Reps are preparing a survey for our Meetup.comย Online Workshop group. We will email this survey through MeetupMeetupAll local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for โWordPressโ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. to better understand the types of workshops participants are interested in for the future.
We have a new handbook pageย on how to create video and event thumbnails for Learn WordPress and our Online Workshop group.ย Going forward, please use this thumbnail generator for all thumbnails that need to be created for Courses, Lessons, and Online Workshops.
Props: @zoonini and @fcoveram for creating the video best practices handbook page, and together both are creating the video for our new thumbnails and handbook page.
Props: @sumitsingh for his hard work on publishing 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 theyโve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 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://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. Post.
May 27th update: Thumbnail generator work is complete, and development progresses with the landing page receiving its first update with the new design.
Open Discussions
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 theย #trainingย Slack channel at any time.
For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted onย Learn.WordPress.org.
Meeting recap notes are one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team, and you can find details on how to write notes on thisย handbook page.
Looking for feedback
Would love everyoneโs feedback with the introduction of the Learning Pathways.
What content are we obligated to leave on Learn? Ex. Classic editor
Until what version do we need to support?
@bsanevans suggests revisiting Learning Pathways annually to ensure they remain current. He believes that content irrelevant to 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 should be removed, noting that the classic editor was removed from the coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. over five years ago. By reviewing WordPress version usage stats, and focusing on content for versions 6.4 and 6.5, which cover over 70% of installs, we can keep Learn up to date with the majority of use cases.
@psykro suggests yearly updates for Learning Pathways and every six months for newer features like the Site Editor and Interactivity APIAPIAn API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. until they stabilize. He agrees that content related to features removed from the core should be removed. For WordPress versions, he proposes using a 5% usage baseline to determine content support, ensuring we cover versions 6.4 and 6.5 but also older versions if their usage exceeds 5%.
Trainingโs 2024 goals โ we asked this question last week and didnโt get any feedback. I added a multiple-choice option if that is easier.
Weโd like to send out a survey to the 10,000+ members of theย Meetup.comย Online Workshop groupย to get their input. What do folks think about these three questions?
What is currently working well with Online Workshops?
What would you like to see changed with Online Workshops?
Do you have any suggestions for future Online Workshop topics?
@Kathryn Presnerย has published a new page in the Resources section of the handbook calledย Video Best Practices, which replaces the previous video and sound information in theย Creating a lesson page. This is intended as a starting point to help content creators create good-quality video recordings for lessons onย Learn.WordPress.org.
Looking for volunteers
Is this the volunteer project you have been looking for? We are looking for someone/or several people to triage theย spreadsheetย of all the available tutorials and recommend which ones to keep, modify or deprecate. There are only 255.
Thank you to the following team members for volunteering to be 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 theyโve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2024 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://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. Training Team Contributor Table
Updates from last weekโs dev-squad triage session
Last weekโs Dev squad session was postponed by a week due to member unavailability. With no new bugs or PRs to triage, the focus was on reviewing and testing open PRs.
We invite developers familiar with the Learn WordPress codebase to help us finalize these PRs.
Other News
Learn redesign update:
Fromย @adamwoodย This week we made good progress, finalizing some technical decisions and shipping some important pieces:
The Learning Pathway taxonomyTaxonomyA taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. was created, allowing Courses to be classified as one of 4 Learning Pathways (designer, user, developer, contributor), and thereby be included on the new home page and taxonomy pages.
Props:ย @Prem Tiwariย has joined our team as an Administrator and Content Creator. With his expertise in 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 and knowledge of GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses โblocksโ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ Blocks, he aims to assist in training team members.
Props:ย @Emmanuelย for reviewing his first pieces of content.
props:ย @magicroundaboutย for his excellent reviews of some of my recent lessons.
As we near the tentative launch date of July 2024, we need volunteers to help with creating a marketing campaign for Learning Pathways.ย @abhanonstopnewsukย volunteered last week, and it would be great if we could have another 2 people or so join. Please comment in this thread if youโd like to help outย
What have you been working on and how has it been going?
@west7creating lessons for the Intermediate learning pathway. Making steady progress.
@bsanevans has been launching the second course cohort with 17 participants and great engagement. @Jonathan had a successful call with them last week.
@cnromandigital is still working on the Intermediate Theme Dev LP: she just released 3 Template videos and working on publishing 5 lessons in the Global Settings and Styles module.
@Jonathan is working with @cnromandigital on Intermediate Theme Developer lessons. Itโs been fun to switch my mind to themes for a bit.
@Kathryn Presner has been co-facilitating the second-course cohort with @bsanevans and @Jonathan. They are preparing for next weekโs Guide program workshop and planning Juneโs workshop on the new Video Best Practices handbook with @west7. She is also volunteering for marketing efforts around the new Learn siteLearn siteThe Training Team publishes its completed lesson plans at https://learn.wordpress.org/ which is often referred to as the "Learn" site. and finalizing the video thumbnail generator for team use.
@lada7042 is recording lessons for the intermediate learning pathways and preparing a presentation for next weekโs WordCamp Montclair.
Is there anything youโve accomplished within WordPress or in your personal life?
Can other Faculty or Training Team members help you in some way? Please reach out to the team repsย @lada7042,ย @piyopiyofox, @bsanevansย or any of the other members for help. That is what is awesome about this community.
Open Discussions
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 theย #trainingย Slack channel at any time.
Thank you for joining the Training Team 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 theyโve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2024 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://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.! Weโve prepared activities for both new and experienced contributors to join in on the day. See the schedule for WCEU Contributor Day here.
We are excited to announce that we will be hosting online events during Contributor Day, allowing those who couldnโt attend WordCamp Europe to participate remotely. You can join us for online contributions by following the MeetupMeetupAll local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for โWordPressโ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. link below. Stay tuned for scheduled events!
Please Note: For registering for Slack, be sure to log in usingย yourusername@chat.wordpress.orgย as your email address. Not your normal email address.
Training Team Mission
The WordPress training teamย helps people learnย 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, viaย learn.wordpress.org.
Thanks for joining! Please walk through our brand-new Onboarding Program. This will give you an overview of the team, help you set up the accounts you need to contribute, and even walk you through your first contribution!
We expect the onboarding program above to take 30-60 minutes. Once youโve completed onboarding, jump into these other activities to continue contributing!
Review published content and submit feedback
WordPress software continues to grow and new features get added all the time. Reviewing published content and updating content is important in keeping the Learn WordPress website current. Follow the team guide about reviewing published content to leave feedback about any content below. (Reviewing older content would be helpful!)
Have a look through the Learn WordPress website. Are there any topics you feel would be great to add to the website? Come add your topic ideas to our 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 โpull requestโ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repository from the button below:
Thanks for joining! Depending on your interests, there are a few ways you can get involved. For each of the tasks below, the team handbook should help you with process specifics. But if you have any questions, feel free to reach out!
In preparation for theย relaunch of Learn.WordPress.org and Learning Pathwaysย scheduled for July, we need to create a large quantity of small graphics โ called thumbnails โ to serve as featured images for each course, lesson, and tutorial. This will create a visually appealing site that will entice learners to dive in and get started on their learning journey.
Content Creation
Are you interested in creating content? If so, then creating content related to WordPress 6.5, WordPress 6.5.2 and WordPress 6.5.3 releases are our priority today.
Are you interested in translating content? If so, then translating content related to the Localization Foundation project is our priority today. Do you speak Spanish, Japanese, German, French, Hindi, or Italian? Come help us localize content for either these five or our 8 other languages. There are a few courses about onboarding contributors specifically that will help in the WordPress mentorship program:
Are you interested in editing content? If so, then reviewing content waiting to be published is our priority today.
Start by finding a piece of content to review in our content development board. This GitHub view has filtered all content waiting for reviews before it is published. Follow the teamโs Guidelines for reviewing content and leave your reviews right there in GitHub.
Subject Matter Expert
Aย subject-matter expertย is someone who has extensive knowledge in a particular field or area and can provide advice, guidance, and direction in that subject. If you would like to help vet topics, please visit the Vetting Topic Ideas handbook page.
Triage Developer Issues
Are you a developer interested in working on issues for the Learn website? If so, then working through our Website Development project board is our priority today.
Start by reviewing issues โIn Reviewโ. Any help you can provide regarding issues โIn Progressโ would be great, too. But in general, any attention you can give to any issue would be much appreciated.
If there are enough interested Developers, then we can also create a developer-focused working group so that they can focus on related issues.
Cross-team collaboration opportunitiesย ย
Discuss or share ideas of how the Training Team could collaborate more with other Make WordPress Teams such as Marketing, Documentation etc.
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Looking for feedback
@Ben Evans Received notice from the Sensei LMS 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 team that they will no longer be able to provide the following two features that were discussed at 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 theyโve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US in summer 2023. For context, these were featuresย #trainingย had requested as part of our content type consolidation efforts around the site relaunch happening this year.
Adding an instructor notes section to lessons
Adding lessons to multiple courses
Based on this information, Iโd like to discuss next steps with the team.
Feature 1, I think weโll will want to work withย #metaย to still create this feature as part of the site redesign. But this should probably be done with as minimal custom development as possible to reduce future maintenance overhead.
Feature 2 is something I propose we reassess and consider alternatives for. Technically, I think Learning Pathways could still be launched without this.
The lesson page is getting a makeover too.ย Learn Designย (post by Joen) Please add your comments to the post.
I am updating the wording in theย Training team contributor badgeย reviewing section to make it more clear and add a link to the review template. I noticed under copyediting/reviewing there is wording โYou should successfully move pieces of content from the โReview in Progressโ stage to the โPublished or closedโ stage 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 โpull requestโ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/.โ
Do we want the reviewers to publish or close an issue?
Is it the authorโs responsibility to publish or close an issue?
Thoughts? Should the wording be removed?
Looking for volunteers
Guides program We currently have a couple of folks still waiting to be matched with a guide, but no guides are available. What are some ways we could attract more guides, ideally in a variety of time zones? A general call for new guides already went out a few weeks ago in theย #trainingย channel, but no one stepped forward, so other ideas are very welcome.
Reviewers needed to review lesson videos. See Come & Contribute section
Updates from last weekโs dev-squad triage session
Here is the link to the thread inย #meta-learn. Looks like they had a good turn out.ย
ย We have 0 issues 2 weeks in a row with 0 issues.
Contribution Acknowledgement
@Ben Evans give props to @Laura Adamonis and @Destiny for being great co-team reps Heโve been away for a couple of weeks with travel, but theyโve supported him with his tasks around that.
@sierratrย โ Completing his first lesson for the Intermediate learning pathway which is currently being reviewed. @lada7042ย โ Creating a second lesson related the Site Editor and Styles/Style Book. @ervanyuffrizalย โ Contributing his amazing video editing skills to the Training Team @ironnyshย Completing a second script about accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both โdirect accessโ (i.e. unassisted) and โindirect accessโ meaning compatibility with a personโs assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)
If you have topics youโd like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue.
@Ben Evans ย like to bring this recent GitHub update to folksโ attention:ย #training. Content Creators, (includingย @faculty-content-creatorsย ). Going forward, please use theย //publishย automation command whenever closing out issues for content youโve publishedย ย This will help us track our content creation stats better
@devmuhib When he receive tutorial presenter application in Help scout, by default the close button is pre-selected. So, when he reply it get closed. he trying to change this to active, instead of โclosedโ state but due to settings is not available Now the @piyopiyofox will look in to it.
@Jonathanย and @westnz will run Content Creator Coffee Hours again this month.
They will share the Zoom links closer to the time.
@lada7042 want to host a Reviewers hour that we get together and review several lessons.ย she might have to do a early morning and then an evening. Looking for suggestions on times?
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Looking for feedback
Is anyone going to speak about Learn WordPress or the Training Team this month? Or applying to speak?
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 theyโve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Asia 2024 Contributor check-in
I canโt believe that WordCamp Asia was already a month ago! I wanted to check in on our new 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://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. folksโ how are you all doing? Is there anything youโve been contributing to lately, or do you have any questions about how to keep contributing to the team?ย
Updates from last weekโs dev-squad triage session
The Training Team developer squad meets every other Thursday at 07:00 inย #meta-learn. You can learn more about the dev squad and what it does inย this handbook page.
@Jamie Maddenย shared the following notes from last weekโs meeting:
1 PR draft and no new PRs.
New Issues
1 content issue was mislabelled as awaiting triage and added by the 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 โpull requestโ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ bot to the Learn WP Website Development Project board
1 new issue related to Gujarati Local Content Linked to Docs File instead of the Gujarati localized site.
1 Style updates for sensei to fix radio buttons and a PR was created ready for review for next session.
Testing of wp-now PR has started
@Muhibul Haqueย has accepted to host dev squad triage on the 11th of April.
Our March team update is now available for review in theย Training Team Update โ March 2024ย post โ this gives a rundown of our team goal progress, projects, and overall team health.
A new handbook section on the interim co-rep process is being created and should be available later today
Your Team repsย @Ben Evansย andย @Destinyย will be away on a business trip next week and will have limited availability.ย @Laura Aย will be holding down the fort for the team.
Come and Contribute
Weโre trying something different with this section this week. We will only highlight the areas of contribution that are of the highest priority, and thread the others to ensure focus.
The team would like to prioritize using GPLGPLGPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a โcopyleftโ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD license and the MIT License are widely used examples.-compliant plugins, so at the moment weโve highlightedย Polylangย andย TranslatePressย as two possible options
TranslatePress seems to be theย better optionย between the two.
Ben raised this question with members of 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 who are working on the Learn redesign, who indicated we would need to first have a more public community conversation around it, as it would mean installing the 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 on the .org infrastructure.
Our next steps will be to hold that public discussion with Meta.
I want to say again that any team member can get involved and contribute to our projects and goals. If any of them interest you, please donโt hesitate to lend your expertise and thoughts.ย
Open Discussions
@flixos90ย has come to the team with a topic for open discussionย which Iโll summarize below
Members of the WordPress Performance Team have been working on an introduction to gathering WordPress performance data in the field. This is provided inย this Colab, as the Colab format is a great fit for this kind of content, since it allows providing BigQuery queries that can be run directly inside of it, and the results can be presented alongside the queries. Colab covers both potential coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. use-cases as well as plugin or theme use-cases.
Felix is wondering whether it could be included or embedded in another area more dedicated to this kind of resource, such asย learn.wordpress.org.
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Design has also created thumbnail templates to be used across multiple media assets used in the WordPress project. For the Training Team specifically, these would be used for course/lesson featured images on Learn, videos uploaded to YouTube, and Online Workshop thumbnails added to Meetup.com. The team would start using these thumbnails as part of the redesign work currently happening on Learn.
Please take a moment to generate thumbnails using the provided template and provide your feedback in the comments by April 19th.
Follow the instructions below to download the Figma file to your computer and generate images there.
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We have a few Online Workshops scheduled this week that were planning on highlighting the changes introduced in WordPress 6.5. Since it wonโt be released yet, the workshops will be using theย WordPress Beta Tester pluginย to introduce features that should be arriving next week.
@piyopiyofox will be drafting up a handbook page that explains how the team can pull in an interim co-rep when there are instances of prolonged absence from a current team repTeam RepA Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. (1 month +). This allows for redundancy and continuation of team management when there are folks out for long periods.
Come and Contribute
Here are some areas contributors can quickly dive into and contribute to the Training Teamโs goals. While we have step-by-step guides linked in the handbook below, feel free to ask questions in Slack any time, and team members would be happy to assist.
@bsanevans thanked @cnormandigital, @davouid, and @sareiodata for testing three potential translation plugins for Learnย website. Also, thanks go toย @psykroย for managing the testing process. Thanks toย @devmuhib whoย volunteered last week to draft the Contributor Learning Pathway for the team. @piyopiyofox gave props to @voboghure for publishing their first notes last week.
@cnormandigital, @davouid, and @sareiodata tested three different plugins and @sareiodata from TranslatePress offered premium license for testing. @piyopiyofox is going to contact with Polylang team if they offer premium license too.
@devmuhib has volunteered to start drafting what this might look like,ย If anyone would like to assist Muhibul with creating the first draft. @freewebmentor has also volunteered to support @devmuhib.
@bsanevans has reached out to the design team. Theyโve said they should have a completed design ready for the Training Team to check by the end of this week.
We havenโt heard back from them yet, so letโs hope we hear from them in the next day or two.
Faculty Updates
@devmuhib โ Engaged in validating content feedback, clearing HelpScout tickets, contributing to learning pathway content, and assisting in content translation.
@zoonini โ Facilitated onboarding of a new guide, Prem Tiwari, matching them with a mentee and also pairing two individuals with another guide. Conducted an online workshop titled โUntangling Templates.
@freewebmentor โ Facilitated multiple team meetings to discuss ongoing tasks and projects. Translated over nine tutorials into Hindi, expanding accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both โdirect accessโ (i.e. unassisted) and โindirect accessโ meaning compatibility with a personโs assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility). Successfully acquired my first mentee as a guide.
@sumitsingh โ Engaged in onboarding new contributors as guides. Reviewed meeting notes for project alignment. Approved Hindi translation strings and verified tutorial translations into Hindi. Provided assistance to team members.
@cnormandigital โ Conducted testing for the Polylang 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. Worked on the Intermediate Theme Development Learning Path lesson focused on โPatternsโ and prepared for the upcoming lesson on โStyle Variations.โ
@annezazu โ Went through the current open for review courses to see what I could help give feedback on andย opened an issue aroundย tips & tricks for patterns but closed it after learning about another piece underway that Iโll review!
@jdy68 โ Reviewed the tutorial โBuilding a home page with a 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. themeโ within the mentorship program, ensuring its quality. Proceeded with publishing the tutorial. Initiated the translation of the tutorialโs transcription into French.
@eboxnet โ I am going through a few abandoned translations in Greek and trying to get them finished.
@chaion07 โ After returning from WC Asia 2024, Iโm dedicated to developing a series of Online Workshops focusing on โHow to Lead a Table at a Contributor Dayโ, starting with the Design Team.
@digitalchild โ Working on getting our first Saigon WordPress meetupMeetupAll local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for โWordPressโ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. started again. Starting to review pathways content.
Open Discussions
And finally, open discussions! Does anyone have any topics theyโd like to discuss with the team today?
Do folks have any ideas for how we can make our meetings more engaging?
@devmuhib โ suggested to pull traffic from Youtube. @gusa โ As a participant or lurker in several channels, it seems like participation (sync and async) is down across all teams (that have regular meetings). Think implementing some of the recommended action items in thisย Five for the Future proposal.
@digitalchild โ I think one of the reasons is that the time is too early/late for some people. I noticed there was a decline in participation since moving to the current timeslot. @manukk โ Maybe we can pass on an email reminder to all members of the group in slack till the count comes up. @digitalchild โ Email reminders can be quite intrusive and if people havenโt opted in for it then we canโt send them.
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