Training Team Meeting Recap – 15th April 2025

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3130
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Attendees: @jagirbahesh @@muddassirnasim @utsav72640 @dilip2615 @hemant-ahir @vishitshah
@zeelthakkar @nikitad @digitalchild @nikunj8866 @surajswalstar @rjekic @logicrays @devmuhib
@shubhamsedani @rraventos @priyankagusani @ravigadhiyawp @snilesh @rfluethi @nishitajoshi
@sumitsingh @mosescursor @pratiklondhe @sonaliprajapati @noruzzaman @rithika3 @rinkuiihglobal
@pmbaldha (async) @benazeer (async) @dparthj (async) @snilesh @ketanniruke (async) @vasantrajput (async)

Newcomers: @broder474

Note taker: @hemant-ahir

News

Meeting Note Takers

Looking for feedback

We are currently receiving applications from students for the Guide Program — a specialized initiative designed to help new contributors learn how to contribute effectively to the Training Team. To support this, we are looking for a few experienced contributors to join as guides. Some of our previous guides are currently inactive, so we’d love to have fresh support. If you’re available and interested in adding value to this program, please share your thoughts or express your interest below.

Looking for volunteers

Need volunteer for WordCamp Europe.

Update for last weeks triage squad

On hold for now, if you would like to host a triage squad, reply to this.

Other news

  • We don’t have any other news this week. If you have any, please add it to the issue.

Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 2 issues that require vetting

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

  • Badges awarded: This week we’ve got two badges to award. @rithika3 & @rjekic Thank you so much for your contributions!
  • Props: @digitalchild gave props to co-team reps @devmuhib as he has stepped up while Jamie have been moving and downsizing our house. Thanks so much mate!

 Project updates

  • Updating handbook pages
  • Reactivating guide program
  • Thinking to reactivate coffee hour

Upcoming Online Workshops

WP-Cli নিয়ে সম্পূর্ণ গাইডলাইন – WP-CLI Complete Guideline

Workshops can be conducted to any language, not only limited to english. So, anyone interested can apply to host Workshops in Learn WordPress. If you have any ideas, feel free to ask in the channel to get feedback from the whole team.

Open Discussions

@rjekic : During feedback validation/fixing process, stumbled upon this issue.

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.

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Training Team Meeting Recap – 18th March 2025

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3118

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Attendees: @utsav72640 @muddassirnasim @nikitad @vishitshah @bhargavbhandari90 @benazeer @digitalchild @nikunj8866 @jhimross @Dhruvang21 @dilip2615 @hemant-ahir @devmuhib @rraventos @rjekic @nishitajoshi @faguni22 @monikamomi @rfluethi @rithika3 @sonaliprajapati @pmbaldha(async) @rinkuiihglobal @sumitsingh @pooja-n @vasantrajput @zeelthakkar @jagirbahesh(async) @shubhamsedani(async) @vasantrajput  @dparthj(async) @iconithemes(async) @chauhanraj754

Newcomers: @pmbaldha @monikamomi @76tagztech @hardik2221

Note taker: @dparthj

News

Meeting Note Takers

Looking for feedback

  • We currently don’t have any projects or posts looking for feedback.

Looking for volunteers

  • Last year 89 Tutorial posts were migrated to become lessons on the new Learn siteLearn site The Training Team publishes its completed lesson plans at https://learn.wordpress.org/ which is often referred to as the "Learn" site.. Unfortunately, these lessons are missing the WP.tv embed, and that means the wp.tv link must be added to each lesson via a 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.. We need volunteers to help re-add all the videos to each of these lessons. You can read the details details here.
  • At Learn WordPress, we develop a variety of educational content to support the WordPress community. Our current focus is on creating localized content to make learning more accessible and relevant. If you have experience translating content, this is a great way to contribute.
  • We need people to continue to create the materials where our existing team members left off. If you want to create a script, record the audio or the video, please get in touch.
  • Right now, we are in desperate need of people who can work on our existing and new content so that we can continue to provide new learning materials for our community. If there is anything you can do, please reply in the relevant threads.

Update for last weeks triage squad

  • Triage squad will be restarted in April.

Other news

Come and Contribute

We have various ways that you can contribute to the Training team. Including development, content creation, editing and more. We have various open issues available for you to get started.

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 2 issues that require vetting

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

Badges Awarded

  • No badges awarded this week. Keep up the contributions and join the team!

Give Props

  • Let’s give props! Do you have someone from the team you want to celebrate?

Project updates

We don’t have any project updates this week. If you have any please let us know.

Upcoming Online Workshops

We don’t have any upcoming workshops this week. If you would like to host a coffee hour or other kind of workshop, please let us know.

Open Discussions

We don’t have anything at the moment.


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.

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Training Team Meeting Recap – 4th March 2025

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3110
Slack Log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1741071666413869

Attendees: @rithika3 @muddassirnasim @digitalchild @sumitsingh @rahulmanek @nishitajoshi
@rraventos @shubhamsedani @hemant-ahir @benazeer @nazmul111 @devmuhib @dilip2615
@nazmulpcc @utsav72640 @rfluethi @logicrays @dparthj @vasantrajput @rinkuiihglobal
@tuba121 @chauhanraj754 (async) @zeelthakkar (async) @jagirbahesh (async) @huzaifaalmesbah (async)

Newcomers: @muddassirnasim @nazmulpcc @jaygumanid

News

Meeting Note Takers

Looking for feedback

  • Learn WordPress is a contributor-focused platform where various contributors create and share content. Often, contributors host their materials, such as slides or presentations, on personal platforms like Dropbox or Google Drive. This can sometimes lead to challenges when there are errors in the shared content, as the Training Team may not have access to make corrections or updates. We want to hear your feedback on this.
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Looking for volunteers

  • At Learn WordPress, we develop a variety of educational content to support the WordPress community. Our current focus is on creating localized content to make learning more accessible and relevant. If you have experience translating content, this is a great way to contribute.
  • We’re looking for editors to assist with githubGitHub GitHub 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue content updates. The ideal candidates will have had experience writing meeting notes as well as using Sensei LMS. Reply in this thread if you’d like to help out. If you have experience with Training Team activities and have been active within the team for the past six months, we encourage you to apply for the editor role. If you’re confident in your skills, don’t forget to submit your application!
  • We’ve created a snippet to promote Learn WordPress content across social media! Please help us spread the word by sharing this on your social media accounts so more people can join and contribute to the learning community. Let’s grow together!

Want to learn WordPress?
Join the largest contributor-driven learning platform and level up your WordPress skills today!

 Explore free courses, tutorials, and more at https://learn.wordpress.org/
#LearnWordPress #WordPressCommunity #WordPressEducation #WordPressTraining

 Update for last weeks triage squad

Triage squad will restart this month, if you would like to host or join please let us know.

 Other news

  • We announced our first deputy training team repTeam Rep A 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. today and our new program. I would like to thank and congratulate @Sumit Singh as our first deputy!

Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 2 issues that require vetting

Good first issues for developers

  • See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
  • We have # issues requiring development

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

Contributor Badge Awarded to: @rraventos
Team Badge Awarded to: @sumitsingh

Project updates

  • I continue to slowly work on the content maintenance project and hope to have a report ready this month.

Upcoming Online Workshops

No upcoming workshops. If you would like to host a workshop, apply today.
Your workshop could also be a study hour where you host a time for people to work and contribute together

Open Discussions

We don’t have anything at the moment.

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.

#meeting-recap

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Training Team Meeting Recap – 17 December 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3062

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Attendees: @psykro @nazmul111 @shivashankerbhatta @dparthj @sonaliprajapati @dilip2615 @pooja-n @devmuhib @rraventos @rfluethi @dapobabarinde @multanisadik @saif2002 @satishprajapati @freewebmentor @rithika3 @vanpariyar (async) @sumitsingh (async) @nishitajoshi (async) @ironnysh (async) @west7 (async) @digitalchild (async) @jagirbahesh (async) @zeelthakkar (async) @noruzzaman (async) @narenin (async) @huzaifaalmesbah (async) @chauhanraj754 (async)

Newcomers@rajeshkumarpadhy

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note taker roster:

Note that this is the last meeting for this year, and we will meet again on Jan 7.
Thank you to @rithika3 for taking notes for this week’s meeting.

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

  • The Tutorial → Lessons migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. is almost complete and we need some volunteers to finish it uhttps://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1733292076649269 If anyone can help with migrating tutorials to lessons, please comment on that thread.
  • Thumbnails for Learn – Help us make the final 70.
    There are 70 pieces of content on Learn.WordPress.org that still need thumbnails. Thank you to everyone who has helped so far. If anyone else as time to help create the final thumbnails, all the details are in that post. 
  • The Training Team is working towards updating the welcome modal in the 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. editor to include a link to Learn material. Discussions are happening in this GitHub thread. If you can help, please comment there.

Updates from last week’s Triage Squad session

  • As there was no one available to host the meeting last week, the triage-squad session has been moved to this Thursday at 07:00 UTC in the #meta-learn channel. This will be the last triage-squad session of 2024. It has also been suggested that triage-squad sessions move from bi-weekly for half an hour to once a month for one hour. I’d like to propose we kick this off in January, and have triage-squad sessions on the 4th Thursday of every month, for one hour.

Come and Contribute

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 2 issues that require vetting

Good first issues for developers

  • See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
  • We do not have any issues requiring development

Validated feedback awaiting fix

Contribution Acknowledgement

  • Let’s give props! Do you have someone from the team you want to celebrate? 

Project updates

  1. The third Learn WordPress Course Cohort: The cohort had it’s final call on Wednesday 11 December, 2024. I will be publishing the results of the feedback survey on on Monday, 23 December 2024
  2. Intermediate Plugin Developer course: content update: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2044#issuecomment-2547702130
  3. Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1
  4. Proposal: Segmenting Learning Pathway courses for better engagement

If anyone has any other updates for the above projects, please comment in a thread on the relevant message above. If there are any other project updates, please leave them in the comments on this thread.

Upcoming Online Workshops

Contributor Updates

Contributors, please leave any individual updates you’d like to share with the team in a :thread: on the relevant message:

  • 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 contributor or Training Team members help you in some way?

Open Discussions

  • If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please feel free to share them with us now.
  • I’d like to note that the we are planning two Training Team 2025 Goals Setting sessions for early 2025. You can read more about this process in the post on the Training Team blog

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.

#meeting-recap

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Training Team Meeting Recap – 10th December 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3055

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Attendees: @sumitsingh @freewebmentor @kaitohm @devmuhib @dparthj @multanisadik @pooja-n @dilip2615 @rfluethi @zeelthakkar @jagirbahesh @digitalchild @rithika3 @nishitajoshi @rinkuiihglobal @west7 @ironnysh (async) @chauhanraj754 (async) @quitevisible (async) @noruzzaman (async) @cnormandigital (async) @mebo (async)

Newcomers: @sandoba @maharshikush @parinpanjari @dinapal

Note taker: @sumitsingh

News

Meeting Note Takers

  • Dec 10 – @quitevisible , but due to not availability this post created by @sumitsingh
  • Dec 17 – @rithika3
  • Dec 24 – No meeting this week
  • Dec 31 – No meeting this week
  • Jan 7 – Volunteer Needed
  • Jan 14 – Volunteer Needed
  • Thanks for taking this week’s notes @sumitsingh

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

No projects looking for volunteers this week.

Triage Squad Updates

  • The next triage-squad session is scheduled for Thursday, 12 December, at 07:00 UTC.
    Due to a scheduling conflict, I won’t be available at that time. I’d like to find out if anyone else is available to host.
    Alternatively, we can reschedule this for next week, Thursday the 19th.
    I also suggest that this be the last triage session for the year, and we’ll pick it up again in 2025

Other news

Come and Contribute

We have various ways that you can contribute to the Training team. Including development, content creation, editing and more. We have various open issues available for you to get started.

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 2 issues that require vetting

Good first issues for developers

  • See Developing Learn WordPress for instructions on contributing to the Learn WordPress code.
  • We do not have any issues requiring development

Validated feedback awaiting fix

As you can see both our validation and awaiting fixes have plenty of issues that need help. A great place to start

If you are interested in contributing in any of these areas, but you need help getting started, please feel free to ask questions here in the #training channel.

Contribution Acknowledgement

Let’s give props! Do you have someone from the team you want to celebrate? 

@dparthj writes first recap notes post after completing #training-guide-program in 1 week only.

@devmuhib This is my first meeting as a Team RepTeam Rep A 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., and I’m grateful for the opportunity! A big thanks to @kaitohm and @digitalchild for helping in today’s meeting — it’s always a pleasure to contribute.

@22halomedia received the Training Team Contributor badge this week. Congratulations Joey!

Open Discussions

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.


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.

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Training Team Meeting Recap – 3rd December 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3047

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Attendees: @sumitsingh @digitalchild @dilip2615 @noruzzaman @devmuhib @dapobabarinde @dparthj @rithika3 @kaitohm @psykro @multanisadik @freewebmentor @jagirbahesh @nishitajoshi @zeelthakkar @rfluethi @ironnysh (async) @west7 (async) @pooja-n (async)

Newcomers: @kurotch321 @dparthj @hectorfg @pooja-n @umeshsinghin
@harshsrivasta10 @pratapvashi123 @asdxemedia @arsh999cg @gaurav3006
@sukhpreetuiux @shivamkumar1n2 @fabesoftservices @kiranchaudhary @deepprakashgoyal @abhishekchaurasiya @bhavinmandaliya @shivanshub

Note taker: @dparthj

News

Meeting Note Takers

Looking for feedback

Looking for volunteers

No projects looking for volunteers this week.

Triage Squad Updates

Other news

  • @digitalchild : I have been speaking to the lead team repTeam Rep A 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. for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps 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 about how we can get learn more into the program. Ivelina has asked for us to create a workshop proposal. There is also discussions about doing more advanced developer workshops as well. I think this is news and looking for volunteers at the same itme.

Come and Contribute

We have various ways that you can contribute to the Training team. Including development, content creation, editing and more. We have various open issues available for you to get started.

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 2 issues that require vetting

Validated feedback awaiting fix

As you can see both our validation and awaiting fixes have plenty of issues that need help. A great place to start

If you are interested in contributing in any of these areas, but you need help getting started, please feel free to ask questions here in the #training channel.

Contribution Acknowledgement

@kaitohm: @adamwood went through and triaged development issues in the Training Team’s GitHubGitHub GitHub 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repository this week, clearing out anything that was no longer relevant after the site relaunch. Thanks so much, Adam:clap::skin-tone-3:

@west7: Props to @flickimp and @benjamin_zekavica for completing voiceovers for following lessons :raised_hands:
Imran: The technical side of picking the right font
Benjamin: Einführung in WordPress (Introduction to WordPress)

Project updates

Upcoming Online Workshops

Open Discussions

We don’t have anything at the moment.


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.

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Training Team Meeting Recap – 26th November 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3030

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Attendees: @dapobabarinde @kaitohm @dilip2615 @noruzzaman @jagirbahesh @zeelthakkar @devmuhib @hardikgohil @psykro @digitalchild @ironnysh (async) @rfluethi (async) @sumitsingh (async) @chauhanraj754 (async) @rinkuiihglobal (async) @dparthj (async0 @west7 (async) @rithika3 (async) @nishitajoshi (async) @mebo (async) @pooja-n (async) @quitevisible (async)

Newcomers: @im3dabasia1 @rayhanuddin2020 @theumair07 @mrredflannel @ykbeili @rdhawladar @nithiyam @zeetechfairy @musabin @hardikgohil

Note taker: @dapobabarinde

News

Meeting Note Takers

Looking for feedback

We don’t have any new items looking for feedback this week

Looking for volunteers

  • Write a guest post on Do the Woo promoting Learn WordPress. @bobdunn-trainer invited the team to publish a guest post on Do the Woo to promote the new Learn WordPress website.  I think it might be great to have a couple of people work on this together. Who would like to volunteer?

Triage Squad Updates

No Triage squad Update this week

Other News

  • @sumitsingh and @kaitohm submitted issues to TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. (coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.) and GitHubGitHub GitHub 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ (GutenbergGutenberg The 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 ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/) for the Training Team Last week, @sumitsingh and I took the ideas from Brainstorm: Introducing Learning Pathways to users during onboarding and turned them into Trac/GitHub issues for developers to consider. Come follow these tickets as we aim to raise awareness of Learn WordPress in every WordPress install around the world 

Come and Contribute

We have various ways that you can contribute to the Training team. Including development, content creation, editing and more. We have various open issues available for you to get started.

Contribution Acknowledgement

This week, the Training Contributor badge was awarded to @22halomedia. Thank you for reviewing content for the team.

@psykro – I would like to give props to @agiljulio, @coquardcyr, @michelleblanchette and @erichmond for their continued commitment to working on the pluginPlugin A 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 developer learning pathway.

I would also like to give props to @lakshmananphp for doing such a great job facilitating the current course cohort.

@kaitohm – I want to give props to @digitalchild for noticing Project Thread: Content Maintenance Process Update Phase 1 has been stagnant for a while, and offering to continue that.

@lakshmananphp – Props to @psykro for the new lessons and co-hosting the cohort.

@west7 – Props to @quitevisible and @digitalchild for reviewing content.

Props to @kel-dc and @ervanyuffrizal for their fantastic work creating and publishing the Troubleshooting lesson!”

@devmuhib – I want to give props to @jagirbahesh and @zeelthakkar for helping me writing beginner contributor learning pathway.

Project updates

We have a few projects underway at the moment. I invite the leader of each project to share an update below.

Upcoming Online Workshops

We don’t have a lot of workshops scheduled for December, yet. Is anyone interested in facilitating any sessions?

Open discussions

@psykro – I’d like to share some (very recent) news

It looks like we’ve been given the go-ahead to have PolyLang installed on Learn.WordPress.org for translated content: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2284#issuecomment-2499828845

This conversation literally just happened today. I’ll be creating the PR to have the code merged this week. I’d therefore suggest that we start trailing this sometime next week, to iron out the process of translation

once I create the PR to have the plugin code merged, I’ll share it here so folks can follow along.

It will be great if we can enter 2025 with a defined process for creating and reviewing translated content.

@kaitohm –  I keep looking at all the ideas the team came up with in Drawing new learners to the new Learn.WordPress.org. There are so many great ideas there!

There’s one idea: Connect with community colleges and schools that could benefit from incorporating Learn WordPress into their programs.

I’m curious, does anyone in the team already have connections with any schools in their local communities?

@psykro – I have two young boys currently at school, so theoretically I have a connection to at least 1 school in my community. However, what I don’t have are the tools for how to connect with these schools, and what is required from each of them, their school board, the educational bodies, to figure out how to find out about implementing Learn WordPress into their programs.

And schools are different in different parts of the world. So while I have an option, I have no idea how to get started.

@psykro – So I recently met with a friend who’s the program mananger for an online coding school: https://codeyourfuture.io/. I feel like these are the types of places we need to be reaching, folks who are doing online learning, for high schoolers, folks who want a career change, army veterans etc.

@22halomedia – I’m an officer at a Metropolitan Community College programming club and will bring up in our next meeting the possibility of doing the learn.wordpress.org curriculum as part of our club activities.

@quitevisible – We homeschool our 2 youngest girls (13/14). This year, I created a WP site using an LMS to run my lessons. I teach 2 of the classes (Chemistry/Language Arts), but also added a beginner WP class to run alongside the Language Arts/Writing class.

Each of my girls have their own self-hosted WP website where they are learning to design and post their work. I embed the Learn WP videos in my lessons. They’ve mentioned that the videos really help – @westnz  seems to be their fave so far. So the material is also introducing WP to the next generation.

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Training Team Meeting Recap – 19th November 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3028

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/. Log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1728975628019459

Attendees: @dapobabrinde @digitalchild @dilip2615 @im3dabasia1 @rithika3 @nishitajoshi @noruzzaman @lakshmananphp @devmuhib @rfluethi @sumitsingh @west7 @kaitohm (async) @zeelthakkar @jagirbahesh @ironnysh (async)

Newcomers: @_dorsvenabili @sainathpoojary @alexreintech914 @degordons 

Note taker: @dapobabarinde

News

Meeting Note Takers

  • Nov 19 – @Dapo
  • Nov 26 – @Dapo
  • Dec 2 – Looking for volunteer
  • Dec 9 – Looking for volunteer

Looking for feedback

We don’t have any new items looking for feedback this week. 

Looking for volunteers

We have no items looking for volunteers this week either.

Triage Squad Updates

It seems like there’s no update from the triaging team this week

Other News

There doesn’t appear to be any other news this week.

Come and Contribute

We have various ways that you can contribute to the Training team. Including development, content creation, editing and more. We have various open issues available for you to get started.

As you can see, we’ve got a number of open issues available. If you are interested in contributing in any of these areas, but you need help getting started, please feel free to ask questions here in the #training channel.

Contribution Acknowledgement

Props were not shared this week

Project updates

We have a few projects underway at the moment. I invite the leader of each project to share an update below.

Upcoming Online Workshops

Open discussions

@psykro – I wanted to congratulate @Joey Brinkman for completing the training guide program. Joey has already started by completing a bunch of reviews of existing content, and reporting bugs to be fixed.

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Training Team Meeting Recap – 12th November 2024

Meeting Agenda: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3015

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/. Log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1731394880613569

Attendees: @kaitohm, @sumitsingh, @rithika3, @digitalchild, @nishitajoshi, @devshakhawat, @yoga1103, @dapobabarinde, @freewebmentor, @noruzzaman, @zeelthakkar, @rahuldsarker, @devmuhib, @rinkuiihglobal, @quitevisible, @west7, @chauhanraj754, @cnormandigital, @dilip2615, @jagirbahesh

Newcomers: @abcd95, @atachibana, @amarii, @orestissam, @athsof, @rjekic

Note taker: @noruzzaman

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note taker roster:

Looking for feedback

  • We have no items looking for feedback this week

Looking for volunteers

  • We have no items looking for volunteers this week

Other News

  • 2025 Training Team Representatives have been decided 
    • Our team reps next year will be @Jamie Madden (continuing) @Jonathan (new) and @Muhibul Haque (new) :clap::skin-tone-3: You can read more about them and how they got involved with WordPress in this post: Meet your 2025 Training Team Representatives
    • Usually, the team will have a poll as part of the selection process. However this year, there were only 2 people who accepted their nomination. As we were looking for 2 reps, we skipped the poll and both candidates were vetted directly. So, we were able to choose the next reps about 3 weeks quicker than usual 

Come and Contribute

We have various ways that you can contribute to the Training team. Including development, content creation, editing and more. We have various open issues available for you to get started.

Content ready for review

Feedback awaiting validation

Topics awaiting vetting

  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
  • We have 2 issues that require vetting

Validated feedback awaiting fix

As you can see we’ve got a number of open issues available. If you are interested in contributing in any of these areas, but you need help getting started, please feel free to ask questions here in the #training channel.

Project updates

Upcoming Online Workshops

The Learn WordPress Study Hours were popular last week! We had 10 people show up and many requested we have them regularly.

These are SUPER easy Online Workshops that require little preparation. If we could have a few facilitators rotate this every 2 weeks, they would make some great Online Workshop programming.

Open Discussions

  • @digitalchild: I have been thinking about this for a while. One thing that I think our content could be extended to is including real world use cases. For instance a course on how to setup a WooCommerce store. A lesson or online workshop on how to create a landing page or marketing site for your business .
  • @digitalchild: We already have the content on how to use WordPress and will have the marketing and SEO aspects covered so it would be good to take the next logical step
  • @digitalchild: I used to do a woocommerce start to finish 2 hour workshop once or twice a year at our local meetupMeetup All 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 ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. before Covid
  • @west7: We do have a few practical lessons planned for the Designer learning pathway.
  • @lakshmananphp: Can we include Learn WordPress online meetups/workshops etc in this widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user.? Allowing the users to show/hide via screen options
  • @sumitsingh: I am thinking to some improvement list of strategies that can boost contributions for the WordPress Training Team and help the community worldwide:
    • Clear Onboarding Process: Step-by-step guidance for newcomers.
    • Highlighting the Impact: Showing how contributions benefit the global community.
    • Success Stories: Sharing experiences and growth of current contributors.
    • Interactive Contributor Events: Regular live sessions for real-time collaboration.( Which is doing)
    • Recognition and Rewards: Public acknowledgments to appreciate contributors.
    • Mentorship Programs: Pairing new contributors with experienced mentors.
    • Flexible Contribution Options: Tasks for various skill levels and time commitments.
    • Outreach on Social Media: Expanding awareness through social channels.
    • Cross-Team Collaboration: Partnering with other WordPress teams for shared projects.
    • Centralized Resource Hub: Accessible resources and FAQs for easy support.
    • These strategies create a welcoming and engaging environment, making it easier and more motivating for people to contribute and make an impact.
  • @kaitohm: What do other folks think?
    • I think we can encourage new contributors to share their own contributions on social media. Then, we could share their posts on our channels. Having them talk about their own experience will make it more impactful.
    • Also, some people might prefer we don’t share information about them. So, having the new contributor post first let’s them make the decision.
  • @digitalchild: This is a great list we definitely need to promote and encourage contributions and collaboration.
  • @sumitsingh: Did you know?
    • Most of our contributors give their time, skills, and passion completely free of cost – no sponsorships, just pure dedication to growing the community! To all of you selfless contributors: thank you for everything you do!
    • One simple way we can give back is by sharing and celebrating their contributions on social media. A quick post, a thank-you tweet, or a shout-out goes a long way. Let’s show our appreciation and make them feel valued – after all, seeing their names out there is a small gesture that brings big smiles!
    • Let’s keep our community strong and connected by lifting each other up.

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.

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Training Team Meeting Recap – 5th November 2024

Meeting Agenda:  https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3012

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/. Log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1728975628019459

Attendees: @dapobabrinde @jagirbahesh @rithika3 @digitalchild @nishitajoshi @zeelthakkar @chauhanraj754 @noruzzaman @onealtr @rahuldsarker @kaitohm @sumitsingh @devmuhib (async) @rinkuiihglobal @psykro @ecre8 @rfluethi @cnormandigital (async) @west7 (async) @quitevisible (async)

Newcomers: @ruthraventos @Collins Kiprono @takayukister @Shahzeb Ahmed

Note taker: @dapobabarinde

News

Meeting Note Takers

Looking for feedback

We will be repeating the items we listed in last week’s meeting as they are still open for feedback.

  • Handbook page regarding creating quizzes/activities @cnormandigital has drafted a handbook page about creating quizzes/activities for content on Learn WordPress and is looking for feedback. 
    • Please leave feedback directly in this GitHubGitHub GitHub 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue: Feedback – Creating Lesson Module Quizzes/Activities section of handbook #2946
  • Looking for thoughts about how to add Facilitator Notes to Learn
    • Designers and developers are discussing how best to implement Facilitator Notes to Learn WordPress. The team will be concluding discussions and moving to implementation soon.
    • Join the discussion directly in this GitHub issue: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/pull/2927
  • Brainstorm: Introducing Learning Pathways to users during onboarding
  • Retiring the Subject Matter Expert (SME) role in favor of the GitHub Editors group (continuation to last week’s discussion)
    • The Training Team has tried using the SME role for two tasks: vetting content topics and assisting content creators. We’ve not seen SMEs vet content topics in a while. And we believe assisting content creators can be done in an editor capacity. To simplify team roles and remove friction, team reps recommend removing the SME role and relying on the GitHub Editors group instead.
    • What do folks think about this proposal?

If anyone has feedback on any of the above items, please feel free to leave them in the comments of the relevant blog post/GitHub issue or Slack thread.

Looking for volunteers

There are no specific projects looking for volunteers; however, if anyone has some time to help validate feedback issues, you can find more information on that here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1729582369593159

Triage Squad Updates

Issues triaged this week:

Other News

There doesn’t appear to be any other news this week.

Come and Contribute

There are various ways that you can contribute to the Training team. Including development, content creation, editing, and more. We have various open issues available for you to get started.

we’ve got a number of open issues available. If you are interested in contributing in any of these areas but need help getting started, please feel free to ask questions here in the #training channel.

Contribution Acknowledgement

@digitalchild, gave props to @psykro for running the triage squad solo last week while I was away.

@kaitohm, gave props to @psykro for running last week’s team meeting while both team reps were unavailable

@west7, gave props to @enkansah for completing the SEO: Part 1 lesson and also writing the script for Part 2.

@psykro, props to @michelleblanchette for her continued work on lesson content and for sharing regular progress updates, which are more valuable than gold.

Project Updates

Upcoming Online Workshops

We have a number of workshops this month, including the new format proposed by 

@Kaitohm

They’re open study sessions where folks will individually work through Learning Pathways on Learn, but at the same time. If you want to study along with other folks, this is a great opportunity to try something new.

We’re always looking for people to run new workshops. If you’re interested in running a workshop or co-hosting you can find more information in the Training team handbook – Online Workshops section.

Open discussions

@digitalchild, If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment.

@psykro, I wanted to note that I’ve completed the testing of PolyLang for Learn content translations, and my recommendation is that we move forward with the code review https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2284#issuecomment-2459070351.

@kaitohm, I just wanted to update the team on Nomination for 2025 Training Team Reps.

Current team reps have reached out to all those nominated, and we’ve heard back from those who have accepted their nomination. We’ll be posting next-steps on the team blog this week

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