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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
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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!
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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
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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.
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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)
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@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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We are seeing inconsistency in the content review process, which makes it difficult to substantiate meaningful contributions. Any suggestions on how to make Guidelines for reviewing content easier?
Some suggestions we’ve had so far include:
Ask content creators to link to the review checklist
Ask editors to use the review checklist
@piyopiyofox suggested: We could also try linking the review checklist to the content development checklist that’s already in the issue.
@bsanevans proposed automating the checklist. When a content creator marks an issue as //ready with a comment, a bot would automatically add a comment with the review checklist link and instructions for reviewers.
@lada7042 suggested hosting a dedicated “review working hour” where people could collaborate on reviews for a set time. This could help people understand the process better and complete reviews more efficiently.
@zoonini enthusiastically endorsed Laura’s idea and even suggested hosting two sessions at different times depending on the outcome of the first one.
What thoughts do folks have about bridging the community team’s mentorship program with the Training Team’s guide program to funnel more people who may not know about Training directly into the team?
@piyopiyofox reported the team’s interest in improving the pipeline from the general mentorship program to the Training Team. They suggested involving Training Guides in the broader program and potentially allowing participants to conclude their mentorship by contributing to the Training Team.
Just to add some context, the project-wide mentorship program is planning to launch its next group of participants (cohort) in November, around the time of the WordPress 6.7 release. Traditionally, they announce a call for mentees (people seeking mentorship) a couple of months before the program starts. This suggests an opportunity for us to be on the lookout for that announcement and see how the Training Team could potentially get involved at that time.
@bsanevans added : Considering Kathryn’s comment over in the initial thread about our active guides being busy and Jenny’s interest in the next mentorship cohort announcement, perhaps we should pause this conversation for now. With the next cohort starting in 6 months, there’s time. @harishanker is already aware of Training’s interest, and @jdy68 is following the program closely. Closer to the date, with @jdy68 insights and hopefully more active guides available, we can all strategize on Training’s involvement more effectively.
And also thanks to @gusa and @zoonini for participating and sharing.
Looking for volunteers
Are you going to 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? If you are, come volunteer to be a table lead on 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/.. Please let a 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. know if you are interested in being a Contributor Day Table Lead for the Training Team.
@digitalchild said that he will be there and happy to co-lead the table again.
@jdy68 also suggested she can help contributors who would like to translate into French, being at a distance on that day.
Other News
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the discussion around setting up a //published workflow on the team’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/. (Slack conversation from last week’s meeting). All comments were positive around setting up this flow.
@leogopal has already done the bulk of the work, which really helps. Thanks @leogopal.
We wanted to highlight, we had 15 issues marked Good first issues for developers in last week’s meeting. This week, this queue is down to – 0 issues! Good work, team!
Contribution Acknowledgement
@piyopiyofox wanted to give props to @David Corradini for his phenomenal PR work to improve the Learn website.
@davouidand @voboghure were awarded the Training Team Contributor badge this week. Congratulations.
Project updates
Learning Pathways
Thank you @lada7042 for providing feedback on the thumbnail design suggestions. The site redesign will be moving forward with these thumbnail designs
Faculty Updates
What have you been working on and how has it been going?
@lada7042 replied she was working on content for the Learning Pathway.
@devmuhib: Handling Helpscout tickets and mentoring in the guide program.
@cnormandigital: Ready to record 3 theme development LP lessons on templates.
@west7: Recorded a new lesson and updated or re-recorded three others. Also ran an online workshop this week.
@psykro: Edited a bunch of existing tutorials into Learning Pathway lessons, hosted dev-squad, and started a collaboration with Agil Julio on another lesson. Hosted a livestream on the WP Playground VS Code Extension.
Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
@bsanevans represented the WordPress project by joining a panel discussion at the Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. Summit in North America. They will share the session recording with the team once it is published.
@digitalchild had a 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. where they talked about learning pathways to a few people.
@cnormandigital organized the content for templates in the theme developer learning pathway. Note that there are very few developer resources available on this topic.
@psykro prepared 5 new learning pathway lessons that are ready for review.
Additionally, the lessons in the “An introduction to WordPress multisite” module of the beginner developer learning pathway are also available for review
Do you have any blockers?
Can other Faculty or Training Team members help you in some way?
Open Discussions
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Also, there’s an update to the Sensei course blocks issue. Hopefully we can get this all resolved by the start of next week.
This issue has been blocking content creators from publishing content for a couple of weeks now, so @bsanevans said he is glad a fix is in sight.
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A conversation was started in the last meeting. I want to give it more time if anyone has any other comments.
Topic Summary- Members of the WordPress Performance Team have been working on an introduction to gathering WordPress performance data in the field. This is provided in this Colab, as the Colab format is a great fit for this kind of content, since it allows providing BigQuery queries that can be run directly inside of it, and the results can be presented alongside the queries. Colab covers both potential coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. use-cases as well as 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 or theme use-cases.
Looking for volunteers
Need help with reviewing lessons for Learn Pathways. If you know anyone who might want to contribute. Reviewer application Let us know.
Updates from last week’s dev-squad triage session
No updates this week.
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Other News
Check out a new edition of Contributor Spotlight! @ardianimaya just published @cnormandigital ‘s Contributor Spotlight. Great to know more about your journey, Cynthia!
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Our March team update is now available for review in the Training Team Update – March 2024 post — this gives a rundown of our team goal progress, projects, and overall team health.
Come and Contribute
Last week we tried something different with this section. We will only highlight the areas of contribution that are of the highest priority, and thread the others to ensure focus.
@lada7042 asked the faculty members, what they were working on and how was that going? If they accomplished anything since the last meeting? What goal do they set for themself? If they have any blockers and if any other faculty or training team member help them in some way?
@devmuhib replied he was taking care of 15+ Help Scout 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 gonna host dev-squad-triage today. Also, he set a goal to work on Help Scout tickets regularly.
@lada7042 replied she was working on global styles and style book lessons for learning pathways. Since last meeting she finished the global styles lesson and its on wp.tv. She is feeling blocked as she has not enough time and still learning.
@cnormandigital replied she has finished the Style Variations video and needs to share it with the team, worked on the Templates lesson, and started adding the Beginner Theme Dev module to sensei. She is adding Sensei lessons to the Learning Pathway courses is something she had to figure out and she tries to follow the same tone and voice Jonathan is using so they have cohesiveness with all of the lessons. Also, she wants to have all of the Beginner Theme Dev lessons on Sensei by the end of April. All of the Intermediate Theme Dev lessons for Templates will be completed as well.
Open Discussions
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@flexseth wants to be able to link to timestamps in wp.tv videos as like as when we are on YouTube and share a video from a specific timestamp. @bsanevans inform that it already possible. If we pause the video at the time and click on the arrow at the top right there’ll be an option to add a timestamp to the shareable link.
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The document above is a final product after any folks contributed their input, so don’t feel like you have to get all that in one go But once there’s a draft, we can share that with the team for feedback. And once we’ve got feedback, we can then move it into 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/ and create issues for each level.
WPML does not have a free version. We will need to decide if this means we don’t test this 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, or if we try and contact the developers and ask for a copy.
Just a reminder that the dev-squad has moved to bi-weekly meetings so they will meet next week.
Faculty Updates
@lada7042 asked the 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?
@sierratr replied that he is working on a website migrationMigrationMoving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. lesson with @west7 which should be done by this week. While @west7 replied that he was with 3 lessons for the user learning pathways since the last meeting. He also recorded a new tutorial for the 6.5 release and will be running an online workshop next week on the same title “Exploring WordPress 6.5”
@cnormandigital replied that she is creating the Int Theme LP(Learning Pathway) lesson on Custom Templates and has all of the beginner theme LP(Learning Pathway) lessons ready for Sensei.
@zoonini replied that she is preparing the “Untangling Templates” online workshop, which she’ll be running for the first time next week. Also, she put out a call for more guides.
@bsanevans replied that he is gonna clear the team’s HelpScout inbox and had a conversation with a #wptvteam 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. regarding how training processes badge applications. Also, he has been preparing a talk for the Open Source Summit on mentorship in the WordPress community, and specifically Training’s Guide Program.
@devmuhib replied that he helped several folks publish their translation and guided two mentees of the Guide Program to contribute to the training team. Also he participated in 4 HelpScout tickets.
Open Discussions
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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 
We have 0 issues 2 weeks in a row with 0 issues.
For content creators and reviewers. We could really use some help.
Just a reminder that the dev-squad has moved to bi-weekly meetings so they will meet next week.