Hello from the Training Team!
Here’s our monthly roundup of updates, highlights, and ways to get involved. Let’s celebrate the work accomplished last month and look ahead together!
📌 Highlights
Here are some important updates from the Training Team!
- 🧳 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/ was a blast, both in live appearance in Mumbai, and in online session. Here is the recap post that summarize all the important things from that memorable event – https://make.wordpress.org/training/2026/04/17/wordcamp-asia-2026-contributor-day-recap/
- 🏫 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. Theme Development Course Cohort – learning program focused on Block Theme Development started in April and we are currently on Week 4 of the program. Learn more about this hands-on course, and feel free to leave comment or suggestion in our 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/ chanel or 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3381
- 🏕️ Workshops are live again: Thanks to our @piyopiyofox, two very interesting sessions where conducted –
- Session 1: Using AI-Powered Tools for Creating WordPress Learning Materials
- Session 2: Using AI-Powered Tools for Creating WordPress Learning Materials
If you missed the live sessions, go to wordpress.tv and watch the recording – https://wordpress.tv/2026/04/30/using-ai-powered-tools-for-creating-wordpress-learning-materials/
⚒️ Training Team Activities in April Overview
- We held 4 Training Team meetings. Weekly meetings continued to be facilitated by team reps.
- We also decided to put the Coffee Hour on hold until further notice.
- We held our first Training Team office Hours on April 18th, and scheduled the next for the Maz 23rd. You can find the Training Team Office Hors meeting recap here – https://make.wordpress.org/training/2026/04/20/office-hours-meeting-recap-18th-april-2026/
You can read the meeting recap notes for weekly meetings on the Training Team blog.
📋 Project Status
| Project | Number of Active Tickets |
| 🔍 Content ready for review | 9 |
| 🐛 Feedback awaiting validation | 21 |
| 🧪 Topics awaiting vetting | 4 |
| ✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix | 25 |
| 👀 Translations ready to review | 6 |
📋 Project Update
| Task Type | Completed |
| 🧯 Closed feedback tasks | 37 |
| 📖 Translated content | 11 |
| 🖊️ Translation in progress | 8 |
| 🪚 Workshops completed | 2 |
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 GitHub. Your efforts power the Training Team forward. 🙌