Hello, Training Team!
Here’s our monthly roundup of updates, highlights, and ways to get involved. Let’s celebrate the work accomplished this month and look ahead together!
📌 Highlights
Here are some important updates from the Training Team!
- 🏫 The first cohort from the Training Team has officially started – we finished Week 3 of this 6-week course titled “WordPress 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 Basics“. You can find more info here.
- 🏕️ 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. US 2025: our dear colleagues @jonathanbossenger and @westnz did a great job at WordCamp US 2025 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/. – together with all contributors at the Training Team table, they finished the Thumbnail Replacement Project!
- 🖼️ Collaboration with WP Campus Connect project: the Training Team started collaboration with the WP Campus Connect and WP Credits project. We managed to prepare a translation of the WP Campus Connect project presentation for 3 languages (Italian, Polish, and Spanish). More to come in next month!
- 🧭 Training Team Coffee Hour is live again! It is added to the Training Team meeting calendar, and it is held every Saturday at 13UTC.
⚒️ Training Team Activities in August Overview
We hosted 4 team meetings and 5 Coffee Hours from the Training Team. Weekly meetings were facilitated by team reps, and coffee hours by Training Team contributors. You can read the recap notes on the Training Team blog.
📋 Project Status
| Project | Number of Active Tickets |
| 🔍 Content ready for review | 9 |
| 🐛 Feedback awaiting validation | 12 |
| 🧪 Topics awaiting vetting | 3 |
| ✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix | 25 |
| 👀 Translations ready to review | 6 |
📋 Project Update
| Task Type | Completed |
| 🧯 Closed feedback tasks | 12 |
| 📖 Translated content | 9 |
| 🖊️ Translation in progress | 6 |
Huge thanks to all contributors—whether you took notes on a meeting, facilitated a meeting, translated or reviewed content, created content, hosted or co-hosted a workshop, helped us wrangle the tasks and issues in 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/. Your efforts power the Training Team forward. 🙌