We are continuing to make progress on our set of priority lesson plans. More details on this progress and all other things are available in this week’s meeting notes.

Progress on this priority group of plans is:

• Categories vs Tags – assigned
• Choosing and Installing Themes – assigned
• Content Editor Overview – assigned
• Famous 5 Minute Install/One-click Install – assigned
• Local InstallLocal Install A local install of WordPress is a way to create a staging environment by installing a LAMP or LEMP stack on your local computer. – in testing
• Managing Media – in testing
• Managing Menus – in copyediting
• Managing Post Formats – in testing
• Managing Widgets – assigned
• Managing Updates – assigned
• What to do when You Forget Your Password – in testing

Note: bolded plans are on schedule to enter copyediting within the next week or two.

User Plans that are Ready to Test:

• Backing up Your WordPress Site
• Basic WordPress Concepts
• Choosing and Installing Plugins
• How to Find Help with WordPress
• How to Install WordPress on a Server
• High Level Overview
• Intro to Common Plugins
• Managing Comments
• Managing Media
• Managing Post Formats
• Overview of the Dashboard
• Pages vs. Posts
• Settings Overview
• Theme CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.
• What is Akismet
• What to do when you Forget your Password

A full list of plans that are ready to test is located here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/testing-modules/lesson-plans-to-test/

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This week we have a lot of progress in terms of copyediting plans and collaborating on edits that have come out of the copyediting process. There are also a significant number of plans that are close to being ready for copyediting. More details on this progress and all other things are available in this week’s meeting notes.

Progress on this priority group of plans is:

• Categories vs Tags – assigned
• Choosing and Installing Themes* – assigned
• Content Editor Overview – assigned
• Famous 5 Minute Install/One-click Install – assigned
• Local InstallLocal Install A local install of WordPress is a way to create a staging environment by installing a LAMP or LEMP stack on your local computer. – in testing
• Managing Media – in copyediting
• Managing Menus* – assigned
• Managing Post Formats – in testing
• Managing Widgets* – assigned
• Managing Updates* – assigned
• What to do when You Forget Your Password – in testing

• these plans are on schedule to enter copyediting within the next week or so

User Plans that are Ready to Test:

• Backing up Your WordPress Site
• Basic WordPress Concepts
• Choosing and Installing Plugins
• How to Find Help with WordPress
• How to Install WordPress on a Server
• High Level Overview
• Intro to Common Plugins
• Managing Comments
• Managing Post Formats
• Overview of the Dashboard
• Pages vs. Posts
• Settings Overview
• Theme CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.
• What is Akismet
• What to do when you Forget your Password

A full list of plans that are ready to test is located here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/testing-modules/lesson-plans-to-test/

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We’ve tripled the number of lessons that are ready to test in the past two months (December and January). That’s halfway to our goal for our current focus! Also, that’s a little less than half for all Tier 1 lessons that we’re wanting to complete in Q1 of this year. More detailed analysis is available on our progress this quarter in a post on our tier 1 progress that we put up this week. More details on all of the things are available in this week’s meeting notes.

Progress on this priority group of plans is:

• Categories vs Tags – assigned
• Choosing and Installing Themes* – assigned
• Content Editor Overview – assigned
• Famous 5 Minute Install/One-click Install* – assigned
• Local InstallLocal Install A local install of WordPress is a way to create a staging environment by installing a LAMP or LEMP stack on your local computer.* – in copy editing
• Managing Media – in copy editing
• Managing Menus – assigned
• Managing Post Formats – in testing
• Managing Widgets – assigned
• Managing Updates – assigned
• What to do when You Forget Your Password – in testing

*these plans are new to the set of priority plans this week

User Plans that are Ready to Test:

• Backing up Your WordPress Site
• Basic WordPress Concepts
• Choosing and Installing Plugins
• How to Find Help with WordPress
• How to Install WordPress on a Server
• High Level Overview
• Managing Comments
• Managing Post Formats
• Overview of the Dashboard
• Pages vs. Posts
• Settings Overview
• Theme CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.
• What is Akismet
• What to do when you Forget your Password

A full list of plans that are ready to test is located here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/testing-modules/lesson-plans-to-test/

#training

The team’s focus is still on completing the first cohesive grouping of plans. We made quite a bit of progress on these plans and also finished up a few older outstanding plans this week. You can read about our status on these plans and in general in this week’s meeting notes.

Progress on this priority group of plans is:

• Categories vs Tags – assigned
• Content Editor Overview – in progress
• Managing Media – in copy editing
• Managing Menus – assigned
• Managing Post Formats – in testing!
• Managing Widgets – in progress
• Managing Updates – almost done
• What to do when You Forget Your Password – in testing!

User Plans that are Ready to Test:

• Backing up Your WordPress Site
• Basic WordPress Concepts
• Choosing and Installing Plugins
• How to Find Help with WordPress
• How to Install WordPress on a Server
• High Level Overview
• Managing Comments
• Managing Post Formats
• Overview of the Dashboard
• Pages vs. Posts
• Settings Overview
• Theme CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.
• What is Akismet
• What to do when you Forget your Password

A full list of plans that are ready to test is located here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/testing-modules/lesson-plans-to-test/

#training

The team’s focus is on completing the first cohesive grouping of plans. We made quite a bit of progress on these plans and as a team this week, which you can read about in this week’s meeting notes.

Progress on this priority group of plans is:

• Categories vs Tags – has some notes
• Content Editor Overview – will be worked on this coming weekend
• Managing Media – ready for copy editing, needs quizzes
• Managing Menus – will be written by 2/2/16
• Managing Post Formats – drafted and will be copy edited this week
• Managing Widgets – in progress right now
• Managing Updates – will be written by 2/2/16
• What to do when You Forget Your Password – in testing!

User Plans that are Ready to Test:

• Backing up Your WordPress Site
• Basic WordPress Concepts
• Choosing and Installing Plugins
• How to Find Help with WordPress
• How to Install WordPress on a Server
• High Level Overview
• Managing Comments
• Overview of the Dashboard
• Pages vs. Posts
• Settings Overview
• Theme CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.
• What is Akismet
• What to do when you Forget your Password

A full list of plans that are ready to test is located here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/testing-modules/lesson-plans-to-test/

#training

We are continuing to use our Gantt chart and our master tracking spreadsheet to identify exactly where where progress is at for our user tier of lesson plans. For more details, you can read this week’s meeting notes.

This week, the focus is on making progress on the following lesson plans:

• Categories vs Tags
• Content Editor Overview
• Managing Media
• Managing Menus
• Managing Post Formats*
• Managing Widgets
• Managing Updates
• What to do when You Forget Your Password*

• These plans are complete, but are part of the current set of lessons that we’re focusing on right now.

User Plans that are Ready to Test:

• Backing up Your WordPress Site
• Basic WordPress Concepts
• Choosing and Installing Plugins
• How to Find Help with WordPress
• How to Install WordPress on a Server
• High Level Overview
• Overview of the Dashboard
• Pages vs. Posts
• Settings Overview
• Theme CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.
• What to do when you Forget your Password

A full list of plans that are ready to test is located here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/testing-modules/lesson-plans-to-test/

#training

We are working with the Gantt chart and our master tracking spreadsheet to identify exactly where where everything is at for our user tier of lesson plans. For more details on where everything is at, you can read this week’s meeting notes.

The team’s current progress on Tier 1, a user level set of workshops that focus on getting to know WordPress that is the current focus of the training team, is:

• 45 lessons total at the moment for Tier 1
• 5 lessons are through round 1 of testing
• 5 lessons are ready to test
• 7 lessons are started, but incomplete
• 14 lessons have not been started

User Plans that are Ready to Test:

• Basic WordPress Concepts
• Choosing and Installing Plugins
• How to Find Help with WordPress
• How to Install WordPress on a Server
• High Level Overview
• Overview of the Dashboard
• Settings
• Theme CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.
• What to do when you Forget your Password

A full list of plans that are ready to test is located here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/testing-modules/lesson-plans-to-test/

#training

We now have a Gantt chart to track our progress, which you can read all about in this week’s meeting notes.

The team’s current progress on Tier 1, a user level set of workshops that focus on getting to know WordPress that is the current focus of the training team, is:

Plans Ready to Test

• Basic WordPress Concepts
• Choosing and Installing Plugins (tested 1x)
• How to Find Help with WordPress
• How to Install WordPress on a Server
• High Level Overview (tested 1x)
• Overview of the Dashboard
• Settings
• Theme CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.
• What to do when you Forget your Password

A full list of plans that are ready to test is located here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/testing-modules/lesson-plans-to-test/

Plans In Copy Editing

• Posts vs. Pages

Plans Being Written Now

• User Management
• Content Editor Overview
• Overview of Common Plugins**
• Local InstallLocal Install A local install of WordPress is a way to create a staging environment by installing a LAMP or LEMP stack on your local computer.
• Introduction to the Customizer
• Choosing and Installing Themes
• Managing Media
• Managing Widgets
• Categories vs. Tags
• Troubleshooting Basics
• Setting a Static Page as Your Main Page
• What is a Theme (may be combined with Choosing and Installing Themes)
• What can you do with WordPress**
• What is Google XML Sitemap*
• What is Contact Form 7*
• What is Yoast SEO*
• What is Duplicator*
• What is Akismet*

*These may be Tier 2 plans.
** These are planned to move into copy editing in January

#training

Tier 1 is a user level set of workshops that focus on getting to know WordPress that is the current focus of the training team.

The team’s current progress on Tier 1 is:

Plans Ready to Test

• Basic WordPress Concepts
• Choosing and Installing Plugins (tested 1x)
• How to Find Help with WordPress
• How to Install WordPress on a Server
• High Level Overview (tested 1x)
• Overview of the Dashboard
• Settings
• Theme CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.
• What to do when you Forget your Password

A full list of plans that are ready to test is located here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/testing-modules/lesson-plans-to-test/

Plans In Copy Editing

• Posts vs. Pages

Plans Being Written Now

• User Management
• Content Editor Overview
• Overview of Common Plugins**
• Local InstallLocal Install A local install of WordPress is a way to create a staging environment by installing a LAMP or LEMP stack on your local computer.
• Introduction to the Customizer
• Choosing and Installing Themes
• Managing Media
• Managing Widgets
• Categories vs. Tags
• Troubleshooting Basics
• Setting a Static Page as Your Main Page
• What is a Theme (may be combined with Choosing and Installing Themes)
• What can you do with WordPress**
• What is Google XML Sitemap*
• What is Contact Form 7*
• What is Yoast SEO*
• What is Duplicator*
• What is Akismet*

*These may be Tier 2 plans.
** These are planned to move into copy editing in January

This week we cancelled our meeting due to holiday travels and family time. We are posting any updates we have in the meantime to this post.

#training

Tier 1 is a user level set of workshops that focus on getting to know WordPress that is the current focus of the training team.

The team’s current progress on Tier 1 is:

Plans Ready to Test

• Basic WordPress Concepts
• Choosing and Installing Plugins (tested 1x)
• How to Find Help with WordPress
• How to Install WordPress on a Server
• High Level Overview (tested 1x)
• Overview of the Dashboard
• Theme CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.
• What to do when you Forget your Password

A full list of plans that are ready to test is located here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/testing-modules/lesson-plans-to-test/

Plans In Copy Editing

• Settings

Plans Being Written Now

• User Management
• Content Editor Overview
• Overview of Common Plugins**
• Local InstallLocal Install A local install of WordPress is a way to create a staging environment by installing a LAMP or LEMP stack on your local computer.
• Introduction to the Customizer
• Choosing and Installing Themes
• Managing Media
• Managing Widgets
• Posts vs. Pages
• Categories vs. Tags
• Troubleshooting Basics
• Setting a Static Page as Your Main Page
• What is a Theme (may be combined with Choosing and Installing Themes)
• What can you do with WordPress**
• What is Google XML Sitemap*
• What is Contact Form 7*
• What is Yoast SEO*
• What is Duplicator*
• What is Akismet*

*These may be Tier 2 plans.
** These are planned to move into copy editing in January

You can read more details about what we’re working on in the recap post from this week’s team meeting.

#training