One of the Training Team’s goals this year is to run 1-2 outcome/project-based course cohorts. A course cohort is defined as a group of people who go through a learning journey at the same time. Course cohorts can be run asynchronously, but include planned synchronous sessions for group-related activities. Course cohorts usually follow aspects of social learning, where the group can interact with each other, and learn from each other.
Now that we have launched Learning Pathways, we’re pleased to announce the next Learn WordPress course cohort. based on Learning Pathway content.
What?
The topic of this cohort will be Introduction to developing plugins, and will be facilitated by @lakshmananphp. This course will be perfect for first-time WordPress plugin developers, who have never built a plugin before.
The structure of the course will be as follows:
- Week 1: Setting up a local development environment
- Week 2: Basic plugin requirements
- Week 3: Hooks and Filters
- Week 4: Custom post types and taxonomies
- Week 5: Custom post type data
- Week 6: CSS and JavaScript
When?
The course cohort will start on Monday, the 4th of November, 2024, and end on Friday, the 13th of December, 2024.
This will be a 6-week cohort and will include asynchronous as well as synchronous (real-time) sessions for cohort participants.
An hour-long synchronous session will take place every Wednesday at 12:00 UTC for the duration of the course cohort. We will only be accepting participants who are available at this time, every Wednesday between the 4th of November, 2024, and the 13th of December, 2024.
How?
The course content will combine text, video, and the weekly Zoom sessions. All content will be hosted on Learn WordPress. Participants will be added to a Slack channel in the Make WordPress Slack so that course attendees can communicate with each other. All applicants will need a valid WordPress.org profile and a Make WordPress Slack account to access the content.
Who?
To sign up for this course, please complete the signup using this link to the signup form.
Please make sure to include your WordPress.org profile URL, and your Make WordPress Slack username. The signup form will remain open until the 25th of October 2024.
We are not explicitly limiting sign-ups to a specific number of participants. However, if we find a high number of folks are interested, we reserve the right to introduce a hard limit. If this happens, we’ll put any additional applicants on a waiting list for another cohort on the same topic in early 2025.
We look forward to hosting this next course cohort. If you are interested in taking part, please make sure to sign up before the 25th of October 2024.