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On June 14, I had the privilege to present the Training Team’s vision for Learn WordPress 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 they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2024. The presentation saw an engaged audience of 300-400 people in the main hall, with many more tuning in online. I wanted to document the feedback I received here for the team to consider as we continue improving Learn WordPress.
The presentation slides are available for download and reuse: Google Slides, PDF
Ideas from the community
Show Learn content in the WordPress dashboard.
Hosts would love for a way to show content right there without the user having to leave their site.
Provide Learn content in a way that hosts etc. can add/subtract modules as needed for their use cases.
Building a 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 was one idea as a way to achieve this.
Clarify how users can get help with the content.
Learn could show a call-to-action “click here for help” within content.
Offer a glossary so that users know what to call the things they’re learning.
There have been previous efforts to create a unified WordPress glossary (Slack conversation) which would be great to integrate on Learn for learners.
It’s now less than a month to Contributor Day at WordCamp Asia 2023! In preparation for the day, we’d like to invite you to share your ideas of what contributors at the Training Team table can get involved with on that day.
Below are some ideas to kick-start discussions. Feel free to comment on this post with your ideas, too!
This brainstorming is open until February 8th (Wednesday).
Team reps and table leads will consider all ideas and publish a post with a final plan by February 10th 13th.
Idea: We can label issues for contributors to work on with wcasia 2023 or similar before the event starts. This will allow us to create a dedicated view 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 ‘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/ to highlight issues for this event.
The Training team made a lot of progress at 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/. this weekend. We on-boarded several new members, completed several TrelloTrelloProject management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. Cards, and collaborated with the Design and Marketing teams to develop the plan for our front-end lesson plan site.
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 they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US 2018 Contributor Day. Image Credit @harryjackson1221
Call for Your Comments
One of the largest-scope discussions involved the development of our WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ front-end site. Currently, our dedicated URLURLA specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org is learn.wordpress.org, but a proposal was made to change to teach.wordpress.org.
The reasoning behind the proposal is that our content is— in fact— focused on how to teach WordPress topics, rather than learning. We’d like to open the discussion on this since it will be a rather large change. Please make a comment on this post with your feedback on the proposal so that we can discuss it in our upcoming meetings.
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 ‘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/ Restructuring
As we collaborated with the Meta team with the goal of translating our Lesson Plans in GitHub to the front-end, we reached the conclusion that a restructuring of our repositories will be needed.
In order for the front-end to be most easily kept up-to-date, as well as provide a mechanism for a final editorial review before content is published, a new master repository will be created with individual lesson plans as submodules within it. This will allow our current workflow to remain mostly unchanged, and the Team Leads can perform an editorial review before pulling into the master repo. @jessecowens has volunteered to spearhead this project.
We’re still looking for folks who have the time and expertise for a few vital roles in the Training Team:
Taking notes from team meetings.
HTMLHTMLHTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites.- and CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site.-proficient writers who can develop new Slide Decks for lesson plans.
Instructional designers or educators familiar with BloomBloom's TaxonomyBloom's Taxonomy is a way of writing lesson plan objectives using specific words so that the objectives can be measured. See https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/guidelines/blooms-taxonomy/ for more details.’s 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..
Wrangling the team’s style guide.
Priority Projects Moving into 2019
Finish the copy and design of the learn.wordpress.org (or teach!) and deliver it to 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.
Clean up the Training Team Handbook with the vision of creating a one-stop-shop for new contributors.
Identify priority lesson plans to highlight on learn.wordpress.org when it goes live.
