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!
- 🧳 The Training Team started a big project: finding outdated content in the Training Team handbook and updating it. Feel free to learn more about it and join us. You can find us in the #training channel on 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/.
- 🏫 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 ended on June 7th. We’re currently reflecting on the experience and gathering our thoughts, and we’ll share a more detailed report soon.
- 🏕️ The Training Team had two table leads at 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. Europe 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://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ event and hosted the online Contributor Day. You can find more info in this P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org post – WordCamp Europe 2026: Contributor Day Recap
⚒️ Overview of the Training Team Activities in June
- We held 5 Training Team meetings. Weekly meetings continued to be facilitated by team reps.
- We held our third Training Team Office Hours meeting on June 27th and scheduled the next for July 26th. You can find the latest Training Team Office Hours meeting recap here – https://make.wordpress.org/training/2026/06/28/office-hours-meeting-recap-27th-june-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 | 12 |
| 🐛 Feedback awaiting validation | 35 |
| 🧪 Topics awaiting vetting | 4 |
| ✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix | 27 |
| 👀 Translations ready to review | 8 |
📋 Project Update
| Task Type | Completed |
| 🧯 Closed feedback tasks | 17 |
| 📖 Translated content | 42 |
| 🖊️ Translation in progress | 12 |
| 🪚 Workshops completed | 1 |
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, or 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/. Your efforts power the Training Team forward. 🙌