Sumit Singh 6:24 am on December 9, 2025
Tags: contributor days ( 45 ), training ( 311 ), Training-team ( 214 ), WordCamp Asia

WordCamp Asia 2026 Contributor Day

Thank you for joining the 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. Asia 2026 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor 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! We have organized activities for both new and experienced contributors to participate in throughout the day. See the schedule for WC Asia Contributor Day here.

We’re thrilled to announce that we will be hosting online events during Contributor Day, enabling those unable to attend WordCamp Asia to participate remotely. Join us for online contributions via the 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. link below. Stay tuned for the event schedule!

Join the online events on Meetup – Once the coordinator is confirmed, we will add the event link for our upcoming online Meetup.

Table Leads : Once conformed by WC Asia team then we will update name here.

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/. Monitor: Rade Jekic (@rjekic), Muhibul Haque (@devmuhib), Sumit Singh (@sumitsingh)

Online Coordinator: Still looking.

Note: We are currently looking for an Online Coordinator and Slack Monitor.

How can I best prepare?

You can prepare for Contributor Day by ensuring you’ve got these starter tools ready:

Your WordPress dot org account and username
Joined the Make WordPress Slack instance and the #training team channel
Set up a GitHub Account
Connect your GitHub account to your WordPress profile.

Instructions for preparing in advance can be found here: Welcome to the Training Team! If you are a developer, check out these Dev-squad guidelines.

Please note: For registering for Slack, be sure to log in using yourusername@chat.wordpress.org your email address. Not your normal email address.

Training Team Mission

The WordPress training team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through synchronous and asynchronous learning as well as downloadable lesson plans for instructors to use in live environments, via learn.wordpress.org.

I’m new to the Training Team!

I have experience working with the Training Team!

I’m new to the Training Team!

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!

Getting Started – The Training Team Onboarding Program

We expect the onboarding program above to take 30-60 minutes. Once you’ve 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!)

Courses

Lesson Plans

Submit new content topic ideas

Browse the Learn WordPress website and let us know if there are any topics you think would be valuable to add. Share your topic ideas in our 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 using the button below:

New GitHub Issue: Topic Idea

I have experience working with the Training Team!

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!

Content Creation
Content Translation
Content Reviews
Triage developer issues

Content Creation

Are you interested in creating content? If so, then creating content related to WordPress 6.9.

Content Translation

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? Join us in localizing content for these languages, along with 8 others. We also have courses focused on onboarding contributors that will assist in the WordPress mentorship program:

You can learn how to get started in content localization on this handbook page.

Content Reviews

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 team’s Guidelines for reviewing content and leave your reviews right there in GitHub.

Subject Matter Expert

A subject-matter expert 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 “In Review”. Any help you can provide regarding issues “In Progress” 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 opportunities

Share your thoughts or ideas on how the Training Team can collaborate more effectively with other Make WordPress Teams, such as Marketing, Documentation, and others.

Before you leave…

We’d love to hear about your accomplishments from the day. Before you leave the table, please fill out the Contributor Day Attendee Feedback Form and reply to the appropriate thread in Slack.

Contributor Day Attendee Feedback Form

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Please share the contributions you made today. (Links are helpful, too!)

How was your experience? Please share any feedback to make future Contributor Days even better.

#contributor-days, #training, #training-team, #wordcamp-asia

Chetan Prajapati 2:17 am on March 18, 2023
Tags: contributor days ( 45 ), WordCamp Asia

Contributor Day Recap – WordCamp Asia 2023

Contributor dayContributor Day Contributor 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/. started on 17 February 2023, 9 AM at ICONSIAM, Bangkok, Thailand. The day started with our Table Leads Benjamin Evans (@bsanevans) and Chetan Prajapati (@chetan200891) introducing the Training Team to attendees. Around 20 people joined the Training table that day, with more than a dozen new contributors joining the team for the first time. Here’s what we achieved:

New members completed the team’s onboarding program, and then went on to continue contributing to Learn WordPress in their interest areas.
Destiny Kanno (@piyopiyofox) hosted a Training Team Contributor Day Online Session and 5 people attended.
New content translations were started for Japanese, Arabic, and Khmer.
New reviewers for Tamil content translation were recruited.
2 training page handbook pages were updated.
The Individual Learner Survey was promoted both individually and with Marketing.
The team hosted its second brainstorming session for Training Team 2023 Goals Setting. Notes from this session include:
- Create a dev road map for the 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..
- Get involved with the redesign work happening on Learn.
- Figure out a method to manage localized content translation.
- Nurturing the Locale Ambassadors program (making sure people who show up have people they can connect with).
- Create a Learn newsletter for learners.

Here is a summary of folks who attended, and some other contributions they worked on:

Courtney Robertson (@courane01) – Cross-collab w/ Marketing on Individual Learn Survey & crafting social media content promoting Learn WordPress. Brainstormed ideas on elevating Learn WordPress resources to 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. organizers.
Jamie (@digitalchild) – PR Submitted. Add My Course link #1353 – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/pull/1353
Tepken Vannkorn (@vannkorn) – Khmer (Cambodian) Translation – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/1357
Sam An Mardy (@S-mardii) – Khmer (Cambodian) Translation – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/1356
RIO (@scaltinov) – Japanese Translation https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/1355
Tetsuya Yoshida (@tetsu8yoshida) – Japanese Translation https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/1354
Nada ElSharkawy (@NadaElSharkawy) – Arabic Translation – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/1351
Mark-Andrew (@nomadskateboarding) – Triaging learns Content Error Reports
Dhanendran Rajagopal (@dhanendran) – Posted and issue https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/1352
Dilip Bheda (@dilipbheda) – Fixed an issue https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/1178
Cross-team collaboration with Marketing and Docs

We are thankful to 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. Asia organizers, our 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. Pooja Derashri (@webtechpooja) who also attended, and especially all contributors who participated that day – both in-person and online.

Memories

Benjamin and Chetan giving opening remarks on-stage at WordCamp Asia 2023 Contributor Day

9 contributors sitting around the Training Team table at WordCamp Asia 2023 Contributor Day

Bonus: Here are 5 past and current Training Team reps who were able to catch a group photo together!

#contributor-days, #wordcamp-asia

Kaito Hanamori 12:58 am on February 13, 2023
Tags: contributor days ( 45 ), learn-wordpress ( 133 ), Training-team ( 214 ), WordCamp Asia

WordCamp Asia 2023 Contributor Day

Thank you for joining the Training Team 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. Asia 2023 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor 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/.! We’ve prepared activities for for both new and experienced contributors to join in on the day.

We plan on hosting some online events during Contributor Day, too, so that people who couldn’t attend WordCamp Asia can still participate remotely! Please follow this post to receive a notice once these online events are scheduled.

Whether you’re new to the team or an experienced contributor, we’d love for you to answer our Individual Learner Survey. This survey will help us identify the needs of WordPress learners and help shape the goals for the team.

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I’m new to the Training Team!

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Training Team Mission

I’m new to the Training Team!

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!

Getting Started – The Training Team Onboarding Program

We expect the onboarding program above to take 30-60 minutes. Once you’ve completed onboarding, jump into these other activities to continue contributing!

Review published content and submit feedback

The 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!)

Courses

Tutorials

Lesson Plans