Dev-squad 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/ triage: Thursdays 07:00 UTC
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Content Overriding Issue: As mentioned in the Slack channel, original content was overridden by a translated version. Thank you to everyone who communicated and resolved the issue.
Important Reminder: Please DO NOT assign translated lessons to a course. Publish them as standalone lessons.
Updates:@piyopiyofox has updated the handbook page. See the Slack post “Translating and Publishing a Lesson”
Tutorial Deprecation: To reduce content types on the Learn WP site, Tutorials are being deprecated and will be converted into Lessons (Tutorial data migrationMigrationMoving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies.#2393). A note has been added to all Tutorial-related handbook pages. Once the conversion is complete, these pages will be fully retired.
Join us for an opportunity to discuss and collaborate on learning pathway content. Whether you’re working on content or interested in contributing, this is the perfect time to meet, ask questions, and find projects to work on. Meetings alternate between two time zones each month
Come and Contribute
This Week’s Focus: Review 10 issues following the content review guidelines.
Feedback Awaiting Validation: 25 issues need validation. Refer to “Validating and Applying Content Feedback” for guidance.
Topics Awaiting Vetting: 4 issues need vetting. Refer to “Vetting Topic Ideas” for guidance.
Good First Issues for Developers: Currently, no issues require development. Refer to “Developing Learn WordPress” for instructions.
Validated Feedback Awaiting Fix: 20 issues need fixes. Faculty Editors should follow the “Validating and Applying Content Feedback” guide.
Contribution Acknowledgement
Badges Awarded:
At the end of the month
Props:
Special thanks to @devmuhib for uploading many thumbnails and organizing a local Contributor Hour to create more thumbnails.
Any other props for this week? Please add to the thread.
Contributors in the Community:
Check out an interview with content creator @west7 in the recent WP Briefing podcast discussing Learning Pathways and their benefits for WordPress learners.
If you have topics for the meeting, please comment on this issue.
Contributors in the Community:
Check out @zoonini‘s presentation, “Untangling Templates,” from WC Canada. Look for the live stream or replay.
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WordCamp Europe 2024 presentation recap — team repTeam RepA Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts.@bsanevans shared some ideas that folks at WCEU had with us. Let’s review the ideas and leave feedback on this post.
@lada7042 set up a GatherPress test site and needs help testing! Please Click the RSVP button and create a login to test RSVPing to the event
The Training Team 2024 Half Year Review is now up! Please share your feedback on the current progress of our goals. Just 6 more months to go!
Looking for volunteers
We are looking for folks to review tutorials and determine if we keep, update, or deprecate them. Please check the linked spreadsheet and help us review this content.
The Thumbnail Creation Project also requires volunteers to help make thumbnails for the new Learn siteLearn siteThe Training Team publishes its completed lesson plans at https://learn.wordpress.org/ which is often referred to as the "Learn" site.– you could also add that we held an Online Workshop Thumbnail-a-thon to look at the thumbnail-making process together, and the recording is available. All are welcome to watch it and help out: https://wordpress.tv/2024/06/25/thumbnail-a-thon-lets-make-graphics-together-for-the-new-learn-wordpress-org/
Other news
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/ clean up updates – I have gone through our Content Development board and closed issues that are not Lessons, Learning Pathways content or Online Workshops. Some issues flagged as Tutorial remain as we determine whether or not they can be made into Lessons.
This week the dev team shipped a number of templates, a fallback featured imageFeatured imageA featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. (used in the card grids in all archives), and filters on 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. archives. See screenshots in Slack.
The community’s help will be needed when the site is ready for QA.
Work is under way on a video walkthrough, News announcement, and Media Corps briefing – GitHub issue.
We’ll plan an Online Workshop to go through the new site for week after launch so it can be included in News announcement.
An Online Workshop Thumbnail-a-thon was held yesterday to get community help in generating thumbnails. Help is still needed! Watch the recording and check out the resources in the comments, and pingPingThe act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” in the #training channel in Slack if you have any questions.
Contributor Updates
As noted in last week’s meeting, we are transforming the bi-weekly Faculty Updates into Contributor Updates , and invite everyone in the Training Team to share what they have been working on recently
You can engage in sharing updates:
What have you been working on and how has it been going?
Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
Do you have any blockers?
Can other Training Team members help you in some way?
Content reviews including videos and scripts. Interim training rep duties. No blockers. We can always use more people reviewing content/tutorials for the new pathways.
I am still trying to find my way around the extensive information provided by the training team. (Sorry for my slowness.)
Creating thumbnails
Talking to the local team about the need for learning path translations
Discussions with MeetupMeetupAll local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. organisers about the possibilities of forming supportive learning groups of participants in learning paths
Wrapping up the second course cohort and preparing recap post
Helping coordinate the Learn remake, including wrangling thumbnail creation and hosting thumbnail-a-thon Online Workshop, and planning community QA/testing
Drafting a proposal for our content migrationMigrationMoving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. project
Preparing Learn Newsletter and Monthly Update I’m also preparing for some AFK next week
Open Discussions
Does anyone have an open discussion topic to bring to the team?
@gusa I have a random question coming out the recent Contributor Working Group chat. In our discussion about potential mentorship projects for the next cohort, the idea of do_action for mentored contributions once again came up. This was also something we’ve on/off discussed with the training team in meetings and related issues (for example). Noticing that issue was closed (yesterday I think?), I was wondering if that means there’s been progress (or possibly because that particular issue hasn’t been active recently).
In addition to creating training materials for do_action, it seems like other potential mentorship projects along with the goal to launch “On Demand Mentorship” would benefit from resources provided by the Training Team.
Curious if there’s been recent cross team/working group discussions on any of the above.
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Looking for feedback
@Laura A set up a GatherPress test site and needs help testing! Please Click the RSVP button and create a login to test RSVPing to the event!
We are looking for folks to review tutorials and determine if we keep, update, or deprecate them.
The Thumbnail Creation Project also requires volunteers to help make thumbnails for the new Learn siteLearn siteThe Training Team publishes its completed lesson plans at https://learn.wordpress.org/ which is often referred to as the "Learn" site..
Other News
Translating lesson content: It looks like if translators assign a translated lesson to the original course and module, it replaces that lesson in the course (more information here). We will need to investigate to confirm this, but until we do, it might be useful if translators of lesson content don’t assign the course or module to a translated lesson.
The Thumbnail-a-thon online event on the 26th of June, with 18 participants working on creating thumbnails for the project.
A total of 21 thumbnails were created for the project
@zeelthakkar is interested in creating thumbnails. @west7 suggested reviewing @zoonini‘s online workshop recording for guidance and to reach out to @zoonini with any questions. @jagirbahesh also interested to creating thumbnails.he will check the post. @sumitsingh and @zoonini are available to help with creating thumbnails. Feel free to pingPingThe act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me if you need assistance. @zoonini thanked for pitching in! @piyopiyofox advises that translated lessons should only be created as standalone unless the entire course is fully translated.
@Jamie Madden expressed appreciation for @west7 diligence in updating content based on recent reviews. @Laura A thanked @Jamie Madden for hosting his first Training Team meeting! @jagirbahesh suggested giving props to @zeelthakkar for actively working on meeting recap posts. @zooninisuggested giving props to @laurahartwigdesign for creating 53 thumbnail graphics for lessons on the Learn WP site!
An amazing amount of work has been going into the learning pathways project. Folks are always welcome to volunteer their time to our team projects as well
Heads-up that the site is nearly ready for formal QA/testing, and a post will be going up soon on the Training team p2 with instructions on what to test, and where to report bugs.
What have you been working on and how has it been going?
Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
Do you have any blockers?
Can other Training Team members help you in some way?
Sure, here’s a rephrased version:
@Jamie Madden has started their role as the training team interim rep. They have been reviewing several advanced tutorials and assisting @west7 with scripts and feedback on a few tutorials. Currently, they have no blockers.
@lada7042 is preparing for her upcoming online workshop after a productive WP fun day exploring new site editor features.
@west7 is currently publishing the Intermediate user learning pathway, updating existing content, and developing new lessons.
@sumitsingh is providing training new WP users, reviewing and translating Hindi content, and planning to create more thumbnails.
@zoonini wrapped up the course cohort, published a recap post, coordinated the thumbnail project, assisted with the Learn WP remake, guided program admin, published the Faculty program retirement plan, and prepared a testing/QA plan for the Learn site.
@Rico creates thumbnails, trains WP users, and organizes local learning groups to go through learning paths together.
@cnormandigital is completing the Intermediate Theme Developer learning pathway.
@devmuhib is publishing thumbnails on Learn WordPress, mentoring in the Guide Program, and assisting with translations.
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Note takers, please remember to wait until the Tuesday following the meeting to publish the notes. This allows team members time to read and provide asynchronous comments.
After publishing the notes, please comment in the meeting agenda’s 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/ issue with the link to the notes and then close the issue.
Training Team 2024 Half Year Review is out! Let’s celebrate another 6 months of goals and projects accomplished! Please read through the post and share any additional thoughts in the comments.
Do we need a separate LearnWP Topic Vetting board for vetting topics? The team’s dynamics have changed since then, so let’s reevaluate. What is the value of having a dedicated board for topic vetting? Could we add back a column at the left of the LearnWP Content- Development board for issues waiting vetting?
According to @bsanevans Last year, SMEs struggled to find relevant issues to vet due to all topics being in a single column, leading to a backlog of 100+ issues. The topic vetting project board, with its categoryCategoryThe 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. tabs, made it easier for SMEs to locate their issues. Now, only 5 issues are waiting to be vetted, a significant improvement from last year. This change allows us to consider reverting to a single column in the content development project board. The backlog was primarily due to Training creating many new issues per release, but this process has paused, making the vetting board more manageable.
@piyopiyofox closed all Lesson Plans and Tutorials unless requested to be converted into a Lesson. The team could benefit from an editorial calendar for release-related content and a general checklist to vet other content for relevancy and priority.
@webcommsat consider using the Dev Blog model for idea planning and discussion, though the emoji thumb voting might not work due to more people involved in training. Using GitHub for planning could be effective. We can filterFilterFilters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. the existing board for ideas and adapt some Dev Blog practices for training. This could also aid in cross-mapping and linking published items, which is increasingly important. I already consider training when reviewing new Dev Blog ideas and posts.
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. EU’s 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/., the team began creating thumbnails for Learn content, but many more are needed. @zoonini is hosting an online workshop next week to continue this effort. Click the link above to sign up and join the Thumbnail-a-thon!
@zoonini will be leading this transition and will let the team know of next-steps soon.
As of today, we’ll be closing the Faculty application form.
New team meeting section – “Contributor Updates”. Although the Faculty program is ending, the “Faculty Updates” section in team meetings has been valuable. We want to continue this tradition and invite all training team members to share their current issues or projects.
Starting next week, the “Faculty Updates” section will be renamed “Contributor Updates” and all 2,655 Training Team members are invited to share their updates.
@piyopiyofox has been cleaning up the Topic Vetting Board by closing non-Lesson, non-Learning Pathways, and non-Online Workshop issues. We will next close similar issues in the Content Development Project board.
Suggestion to pause new Tutorial Presenter applications.We’re temporarily closing the Tutorial application form due to spam. We’re focusing on updating the content creator application process while keeping the Online Workshop facilitator application form open for vetted submissions. Please share any questions or thoughts in the threads above.
Props: Special thanks to all the contributors who created thumbnail graphics for the new Learn WordPress site during and after WCEU Contributor Day. A particular shout-out to @sumitsingh and @bsanevans!
Props: @agiljulio for his work on creating the final video lessons for the Beginner developer learning pathway.
Learn WordPress Thumbnail creation ( From @zoonini ) The thumbnail creation project needs more help, and it’s fun to do! These graphics are used for courses, lessons, and tutorials on the new site. Check out examples in the Featured Courses and Courses sections on the new site, which can be previewed here. Join our “thumbnail-a-thon” online workshop on June 25 at 17 UTC to learn how to create them—no graphic design skills needed!
New learner satisfaction surveys on Learn WordPress content ( From @zoonini ) The Training team plans to add anonymous satisfaction surveys to Learn.WordPress.org courses, aiming for an average score of at least 4 out of 5. These surveys will measure satisfaction, gather improvement suggestions, assess skill confidence, and collect optional testimonials Here’s the draft survey. Survey results will be regularly reviewed, and feedback will be shared with content creators. Please provide feedback on the draft survey by July 3.
Open Discussions
You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.
For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted on Learn.WordPress.org.
Meeting recap notes are one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team, and you can find details on how to write notes on this handbook page.
Looking for feedback
The Training Team has had an Administration project board 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/ for a couple of years. With the majority of project tracking now happening on the team blog, team reps are planning on cleaning out the board, leaving just the meeting agenda and handbook feedback items. Are any team members still actively using this board?
Looking for volunteers
@Jonathan and @westnz started triaging the Tutorials in this spreadsheet, marking those that the team should keep, modify, or retire. There are still over 100 Tutorials that need triaging. Feel free to add your thoughts directly in the spreadsheet, or comment here if you need assistance.
Other News
Our WordCamp Europe 2024 Contributor Day post is now up for contributors to review. You can participate either in person or online, so click this link to find out how to contribute Try and get a group photo.
Join our June Content Creation Coffee Hours! It’s a great chance for anyone working on or interested in learning pathway content to meet, discuss projects, ask questions, or find new content to work on. Meetings alternate between two time zones each month.
Check out these informal discovery and Q&A sessions about the Five for the Future program at WCEU this week for companies interested in joining. Sessions are on Saturday, June 15, at 9:00 AM and 3:15 PM, meeting at the Community Booth. The location might change based on attendance. Spread the word and refer to the newly published Five for the Future Handbook for more information. Thank you!
A new handbook page on Video Best Practices has been published, featuring an embedded online workshop. For the list of resources, please share any other free video editing software you recommend for their excellent performance.
What have you been working on and how has it been going?
@lada7042 created a lesson on the Group blockBlockBlock 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. and worked on video editing and publishing. She encountered issues but received assistance from @westnz.
@piyopiyofox began as a Guide in the Guide Program, onboarded @Jamie Madden as a new co-rep, and is actively involved in the content maintenance proposal while creating a half-year goals post.
@westnz has recently created two new lessons for the Intermediate user learning pathway and is involved in the Guide program.
@devmuhib recently co-hosted workshops on “WordPress Support Engineer Roles and Responsibilities” and “Training Team 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 Contributor Day Online” with @jagirbahesh. He is actively managing HelpScout tickets, onboarded two new content creators this week, and is currently triaging GitHub issues related to content translation.
@zoonini is currently coordinating a thumbnail creation/replacement project, matching guides with new contributors, and overseeing the Faculty program retirement proposal. She is also involved in coordinating marketing and communication plans for the site relaunch and recently hosted an online workshop with @westnz on recording impressive demos.
Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
@westnz is completing work on the custom post-type video.
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We got some input from a Marketing team member last week. Please continue to contribute to this conversation by providing your thoughts on the post by June 13th.
The team has had an administration project board for a couple of years. With the majority of project tracking now happening on the team blog, team reps are planning on cleaning out the board, leaving just meeting agenda and handbook feedback items. Are any team members still actively using this board?
Faculty program retirement
We’d like to share a proposal to retire the Faculty program in its current form. This proposal was already discussed within the Faculty group, and since the overall consensus was to go ahead with retiring the program, we’re now sharing the proposal with the whole team before we move forward with any of the suggested steps.
@bsanevans has proposed the below plan to the team and team agreed on that. Below are the @bsanevans proposal:
Firstly, we wanted to give a huge thank you for all your hard work in keeping things running so smoothly. Thanks to you all, we’ve been able to set up team processes, catch up on a backlog of tasks, and set ourselves up for future success.
Over the past while, we’ve observed that the Faculty program is due for a rethink. For example, many folks in the Faculty group are no longer active on the team at all, and there are many roles that are under-used and difficult to recruit for. As well, there’s a level of administrative overhead that’s somewhat complicated, and having to be part of the Faculty program may be seen by contributors as a barrier to doing certain types of work on the team. Finally, the now-established Guide Program serves as a welcoming path for people to get more involved in the team.
We’ve been thinking of ways to streamline things to make the team run more efficiently. In turn, this should free up time to focus more on higher-impact areas.
In thinking things over, we’d like to suggest retiring the Faculty program in its current form. We propose the following steps:
Add a new area in the handbook, outlining the history of Learn.WordPress.org and the Training team. This section would also include the names of past team reps and Faculty members, so that folks’ contributions are visible and recognized in the context of the Training team’s history.
Shift the work done by the current Faculty Admin group to a smaller group of administrators, starting with the team reps. Additional admins will be added over time, while the current admin needs of the team are reassessed. We will likely look for Training team members who have made consistent contributions over the last 6-12 months.
Update the handbook to remove the Faculty Program section.
Feedback on sharing experienced content creator processes with the team
@psykro and @west7 have identified a need for content creators to view their content creation process. They plan to add the following links as additional resources to the “Create a Lesson” page. They are also considering creating an informal video recording of these processes to support visual learners. We welcome any feedback or concerns you might have regarding this plan.
To simplify Learn.WordPress.org, two content types will be gradually phased out: tutorials and lesson plans. As a first step, before launching the new site some outdated tutorials are going to be unpublished. A redirect will be added for each one, to send visitors to the most relevant alternative content.
@west7 and @psykro have already started going through all existing tutorials to note whether they should be kept, deprecated (unpublished), or updated.
We are looking for volunteers to continue going through the rest of the tutorials to indicate the status of each (keep/deprecate/update) and a potential redirect URLURLA specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org. If you are available, please make edits directly to the spreadsheet.
Note that some of this content is in languages other than English, but you could use an online translation tool to translate the tutorial title to help determine whether it’s still relevant or has a more up-to-date equivalent tutorial or lesson.
You can participate either in person or online, so click this link above to find out how to contribute 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. EU 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/. will be happening on June 13th.
The WordPress Project’s Video Thumbnail Generator
The WordPress project has a new handbook page on how to create video and event thumbnails. Going forward, please use this thumbnail generator for all thumbnails that need to be created for Courses, Lessons, and Online Workshops.
When using the generator, please first watch the walkthrough video shared on the handbook page. I’ll also link the video here:
All Online Workshops going forward should use the same pale blue template as this image. This is also noted in our handbook
This is a big process change for the team. So don’t hesitate to ask questions in this channel as you get used to using the thumbnail generator
After WordCamp Europe, I will be absent from the team for three months, taking a sabbatical from work and WordPress contributions. I’ll be back from September 25th, though, so don’t worry
While I’m away, @digitalchild will be stepping in as interim team lead. Please see the post above for more details.
This is an opportunity for anyone working on learning pathway content or anyone interested in learning pathway content to meet, discuss what content they are working on, ask questions, or find content to work on for the learning pathways. Currently, we alternate meetings between two time zones each month.
Jonathan—13 June 2024 @ 14:00 UTC (The Zoom link will be shared the day before the session and again on the day of the session, just before it begins.)
We found out this week that the Learn news letter wasn’t sending to subscribers until now Thanks to @adamwood for identifying this issue, and fixing it in preparation for the site relaunch.
One exciting development is that a theme switcher now lets you preview the new theme on the production siteProduction SiteA production site is a live site online meant to be viewed by your visitors, as opposed to a site that is staged for development or testing., with all its data. You can try it at: https://learn.wordpress.org/?new-theme=1
Open Discussion
First of all, thank you to @lada7042@zoonini and @west7 for adding additional meeting topics on the GitHub agenda beforehand Each week, if anybody else has topics they’d like discussed, feel free to add it to the agenda so we can dedicate space for it within the meeting
And finally… Was there any other topic folks wanted to bring up today?
It’s just one more week until WordCamp Europe starts I can’t wait to present all the exciting things the Training Team has been doing with Learning Pathways and the site redesign
And with that, I’ll close this week’s meeting. Thanks to everyone who attend live, and to everyone who attended asynchronously. See you all next week!
You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.
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Our WordCamp Europe 2024 Contributor Day post is now available for review. You can participate either in person or online. Click this link to learn how to contribute.
The Training Team Reps are preparing a survey for our Meetup.com Online Workshop group. We will email this survey through MeetupMeetupAll local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. to better understand the types of workshops participants are interested in for the future.
We have a new handbook page on how to create video and event thumbnails for Learn WordPress and our Online Workshop group. Going forward, please use this thumbnail generator for all thumbnails that need to be created for Courses, Lessons, and Online Workshops.
Props: @zoonini and @fcoveram for creating the video best practices handbook page, and together both are creating the video for our new thumbnails and handbook page.
Props: @sumitsingh for his hard work on publishing the 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 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/. Post.
May 27th update: Thumbnail generator work is complete, and development progresses with the landing page receiving its first update with the new design.
Open Discussions
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Looking for feedback
Would love everyone’s feedback with the introduction of the Learning Pathways.
What content are we obligated to leave on Learn? Ex. Classic editor
Until what version do we need to support?
@bsanevans suggests revisiting Learning Pathways annually to ensure they remain current. He believes that content irrelevant to the BlockBlockBlock 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 should be removed, noting that the classic editor was removed from the coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. over five years ago. By reviewing WordPress version usage stats, and focusing on content for versions 6.4 and 6.5, which cover over 70% of installs, we can keep Learn up to date with the majority of use cases.
@psykro suggests yearly updates for Learning Pathways and every six months for newer features like the Site Editor and Interactivity APIAPIAn API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. until they stabilize. He agrees that content related to features removed from the core should be removed. For WordPress versions, he proposes using a 5% usage baseline to determine content support, ensuring we cover versions 6.4 and 6.5 but also older versions if their usage exceeds 5%.
Training’s 2024 goals – we asked this question last week and didn’t get any feedback. I added a multiple-choice option if that is easier.
We’d like to send out a survey to the 10,000+ members of the Meetup.com Online Workshop group to get their input. What do folks think about these three questions?
What is currently working well with Online Workshops?
What would you like to see changed with Online Workshops?
Do you have any suggestions for future Online Workshop topics?
@Kathryn Presner has published a new page in the Resources section of the handbook called Video Best Practices, which replaces the previous video and sound information in the Creating a lesson page. This is intended as a starting point to help content creators create good-quality video recordings for lessons on Learn.WordPress.org.
Looking for volunteers
Is this the volunteer project you have been looking for? We are looking for someone/or several people to triage the spreadsheet of all the available tutorials and recommend which ones to keep, modify or deprecate. There are only 255.
Thank you to the following team members for volunteering to be 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 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/. Training Team Contributor Table
Last week’s Dev squad session was postponed by a week due to member unavailability. With no new bugs or PRs to triage, the focus was on reviewing and testing open PRs.
We invite developers familiar with the Learn WordPress codebase to help us finalize these PRs.
Other News
Learn redesign update:
From @adamwood This week we made good progress, finalizing some technical decisions and shipping some important pieces:
The Learning Pathway 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. was created, allowing Courses to be classified as one of 4 Learning Pathways (designer, user, developer, contributor), and thereby be included on the new home page and taxonomy pages.
Props: @Prem Tiwari has joined our team as an Administrator and Content Creator. With his expertise in 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 development and knowledge of GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ Blocks, he aims to assist in training team members.
Props: @Emmanuel for reviewing his first pieces of content.
props: @magicroundabout for his excellent reviews of some of my recent lessons.
As we near the tentative launch date of July 2024, we need volunteers to help with creating a marketing campaign for Learning Pathways. @abhanonstopnewsuk volunteered last week, and it would be great if we could have another 2 people or so join. Please comment in this thread if you’d like to help out
What have you been working on and how has it been going?
@west7creating lessons for the Intermediate learning pathway. Making steady progress.
@bsanevans has been launching the second course cohort with 17 participants and great engagement. @Jonathan had a successful call with them last week.
@cnromandigital is still working on the Intermediate Theme Dev LP: she just released 3 Template videos and working on publishing 5 lessons in the Global Settings and Styles module.
@Jonathan is working with @cnromandigital on Intermediate Theme Developer lessons. It’s been fun to switch my mind to themes for a bit.
@Kathryn Presner has been co-facilitating the second-course cohort with @bsanevans and @Jonathan. They are preparing for next week’s Guide program workshop and planning June’s workshop on the new Video Best Practices handbook with @west7. She is also volunteering for marketing efforts around the new Learn siteLearn siteThe Training Team publishes its completed lesson plans at https://learn.wordpress.org/ which is often referred to as the "Learn" site. and finalizing the video thumbnail generator for team use.
@lada7042 is recording lessons for the intermediate learning pathways and preparing a presentation for next week’s WordCamp Montclair.
Is there anything you’ve accomplished within WordPress or in your personal life?
Can other Faculty or Training Team members help you in some way? Please reach out to the team reps @lada7042, @piyopiyofox, @bsanevans or any of the other members for help. That is what is awesome about this community.
Open Discussions
You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.
For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted on Learn.WordPress.org.
The team reps reviewed our 2024 goals this week and have a few questions for the team to discuss to provide clarity and achievability to some of the goals we created together. We are looking for feedback on how to proceed on two goals
Goal: Brainstorm the evolution of Online Workshops
What are we hoping to accomplish with this goal? For example, Did we want to increase the programming? Like having the same topics over different time zones to reach more audiences?
Goal: Create and maintain shared resources that promote the Training Team and Learn
When do we feel satisfied that this is met? What resources are we lacking? We have slides and supporting materials for various things in our shared folder.
@psykro is also looking for additional feedback on his video The built-in WordPress debugging options #2378 as it presents us with a new video editing features. When providing feedback, he asks that consider the following while reviewing (some of which have been altered during the initial review)
use of sound effects (please see the first version of the video), some like it, some do not
transition speeds and use of blur effects
code examples, showing them in an IDE (integrated development environment) or not
We are also still looking for suggestions for things to do. Please share your thoughts by May 27th
Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session
No updates this week.
The Training Team developer squad meets every other Thursday at 07:00 in #meta-learn You can learn more about the dev squad and what it does in this handbook page.
The team reps have cleaned up the Slack channel pins and Bookmarks to make our every day use links more accessible. Hopefully this helps folks navigate our usual resources more quickly
The aim of this project is to experiment applying the learnings from the last cohort, with the hopes of turning course cohorts into a sustainable educational offering on Learn.
Faculty Updates
@piyopiyofox asked faculty members, what they were working on and how was that going? If they accomplished anything since the last meeting? If they have any blockers and if any other faculty or training team member help them in some way?
@devmuhib replied he was clearing the helpscout tickets, triaging 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/ issues and will be leading training team table 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/.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. Sylhet.
@west7 replied he was creating and reviewing content for Learning Pathways project. Ran an online workshop and guide program.
@sumitsingh replied he was helping new contribution to peoples with guide program, have conversation with @zoonini for training meetupMeetupAll local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. meeting and reviewing translation in hindi.
@piyopiyofox replied she was reviewing team goals, finding WCEU table leads, volunteered to be a guide and outreach for interim co-rep
@cnormandigital replied she was completing Sensei lesson, Theme development lesson recordings for LP Templates module and Removing the static in the background of my recordings
@zoonini replied she ran second edition of Untangling Templates online workshop. Planning an online workshop about the Guides program, with guest @sumitsingh , Managing Guide program, including matching a few more pairs. Drafting a new/expanded video best practices section for the handbook and Preparations for a new course cohort about building your first blockBlockBlock 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., which I’ll be co-facilitating
@ardianimaya replied she arranged upcoming Contributor Spotlight article workflow with @ironnysh (this month we have @digitalchild ’s spotlight!), and discussed about having content bank
@webcommsat replied she has been looking at some of the release issues which had been identifying with Courtney. lso been looking at some matches and cross opportunities with the Developer Blog, continuing previous efforts on this. More to follow. Followed up on learning pathways next steps.
“The learner came across my (very long) tutorial and shared feedback that the content was out of date. I replied with the updated tutorials for that same content. However, I did note that the learner came to the tutorial via organic search, so it got me thinking, as we move towards the learning pathways/learn redesign, what should we plan for when it comes to older content. We should probably do some sort of review as to what content is still coming up in online searches, and then add similar notices to the ones I added on this tutorial, about how there are updated versions.”
@west7 likes the notice on the tutorial page. @lada7042 agreed that we need to review older content. Also suggested if we can remove or need to keep the content and add the notice. While @piyopiyofox informed that removing the content from learn website will not remove content from WordPress.tv and YouTube, so we need to have a strategy to coordinate deprecation across all platform.
@cnormandigital suggest that we need to have a routine for updating the videos with the links to new content. @ironnysh suggest two notices, 1. Manually deprecation notice with links to newer versions, 2. Automatic FYI message that will added to every tutorial posted over a year ago.
You can see all meetings scheduled on this meeting calendar. If you are new to the Training Team, then come walk through our onboarding program to get to know the team and how we work. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out in the #training Slack channel at any time.
For those who are new here, the WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through educational content hosted on Learn.WordPress.org.
Meeting recap notes are one of the best ways to get started contributing to a team, and you can find details on how to write notes in this handbook page.
Looking for feedback
@Ben Evans Received notice from the Sensei LMS 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 team that they will no longer be able to provide the following two features that were discussed 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. US in summer 2023. For context, these were features #training had requested as part of our content type consolidation efforts around the site relaunch happening this year.
Adding an instructor notes section to lessons
Adding lessons to multiple courses
Based on this information, I’d like to discuss next steps with the team.
Feature 1, I think we’ll will want to work with #meta to still create this feature as part of the site redesign. But this should probably be done with as minimal custom development as possible to reduce future maintenance overhead.
Feature 2 is something I propose we reassess and consider alternatives for. Technically, I think Learning Pathways could still be launched without this.
The lesson page is getting a makeover too. Learn Design (post by Joen) Please add your comments to the post.
I am updating the wording in the Training team contributor badge reviewing section to make it more clear and add a link to the review template. I noticed under copyediting/reviewing there is wording “You should successfully move pieces of content from the “Review in Progress” stage to the “Published or closed” stage 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/.”
Do we want the reviewers to publish or close an issue?
Is it the author’s responsibility to publish or close an issue?
Thoughts? Should the wording be removed?
Looking for volunteers
Guides program We currently have a couple of folks still waiting to be matched with a guide, but no guides are available. What are some ways we could attract more guides, ideally in a variety of time zones? A general call for new guides already went out a few weeks ago in the #training channel, but no one stepped forward, so other ideas are very welcome.
Reviewers needed to review lesson videos. See Come & Contribute section
Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session
Here is the link to the thread in #meta-learn. Looks like they had a good turn out.
@Ben Evans give props to @Laura Adamonis and @Destiny for being great co-team reps He’ve been away for a couple of weeks with travel, but they’ve supported him with his tasks around that.
@sierratr – Completing his first lesson for the Intermediate learning pathway which is currently being reviewed. @lada7042 – Creating a second lesson related the Site Editor and Styles/Style Book. @ervanyuffrizal – Contributing his amazing video editing skills to the Training Team @ironnysh Completing a second script about accessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)
If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue.
@Ben Evans like to bring this recent GitHub update to folks’ attention: #training. Content Creators, (including @faculty-content-creators ). Going forward, please use the //publish automation command whenever closing out issues for content you’ve published This will help us track our content creation stats better
@devmuhib When he receive tutorial presenter application in Help scout, by default the close button is pre-selected. So, when he reply it get closed. he trying to change this to active, instead of “closed” state but due to settings is not available Now the @piyopiyofox will look in to it.
@Jonathan and @westnz will run Content Creator Coffee Hours again this month.
They will share the Zoom links closer to the time.
@lada7042 want to host a Reviewers hour that we get together and review several lessons. she might have to do a early morning and then an evening. Looking for suggestions on times?
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I can’t wait to present all the exciting things the Training Team has been doing with Learning Pathways and the site redesign 
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