Source: Make WordPress: Community

  • WordPress Education at WCEU 2026: More Than Learning to Build a Website

    WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2026 in Kraków marked a significant milestone for WordPress Educational Initiatives. For the first time ever,…

  • Community Team Meeting Agenda for June 11, 2026

    The Community Team chat usually takes place on the first Thursday of every month in the #community-team channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. This month’s meeting was pushed from June 4 to June 11 due to WordCamp Europe 2026. This…

  • How to Bring Your Community to Make WordPress Slack

    Following Mary’s post on welcoming all languages and communities to Make WordPress Slack, we’re ready to start creating channels for local meetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. groups, locale communities, and flagship…

  • Open Source Starts in the Classroom: WordPress Education in Poland

    When people ask me what I’ve been working on lately, the answer usually involves students, professors, and open sourceOpen Source Open 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. contributions. Something has been…

  • Monthly Education Buzz Report – May 2026

    Welcome to the Monthly Education Buzz Report, your go-to source for highlights and updates on the WordPress Campus Connect, WordPress Credits, and WordPress Student Club education initiatives within the WordPress community. This report aims to celebrate, promote, and inform individuals across the WordPress community and beyond about the diverse educational endeavors underway. WordPress Campus Connect…

  • My WPCredits Journey: What We’ve Built So Far

    When we started WPCredits at Universidad Fidélitas, I knew it was an important project, but I didn’t fully grasp everything it would come to mean. Today, looking back, I realize that in a short time we’ve built something worth talking about. And since this is a journey that’s still very much open, I want to…

  • WP Ibarra: How a Community Was Born and Its First In-Person Meetup

    By the WordPress Ibarra, Ecuador Community — May 2026 Ibarra now has its own WordPress community. What started as a conversation among passionate people at events across Latin America has become something real: on May 29th, we are holding our first in-person meetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on…

  • 🌍 WCEU 2026 Contributor Day: Community Team Agenda

    WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2026 is just around the corner (do you have your ticket?), and Contributor Day in Kraków…

  • Community Team May 2026 meeting recap

    This is a summary of the Community Team monthly meeting held on May 7, 2026. This month, the team tried something a little different: instead of two separate sessions, we ran a single open meeting starting at 12:00 UTC and kept it open for 12 hours. People could drop in when it worked for them,…

  • What We’re Learning from First-Time WP Credits Mentors: A Story from the Field

    A first-time WP Credits mentor reflects on what his cohort revealed about onboarding, scoping projects, and connecting students to the WordPress community as the program grows.