Welcome to the website for the Training Team, WordCamp NYC Contributors! If you’re attending the July 15th Contributor Day in New York City, this post is intended to be an introduction on how to get started with contributing to Team Training. The training team focuses on producing lesson plans to be used in in-person workshop settings.
Our team’s main focus during this contributor day will be working on lesson plans that will eventually be an introductory theme workshop. The larger team has brainstormed and collaborated on what plans need to be included in this workshop, and they are:
- Basic Theme Configuration – This plan should be about what types of things you can change (e.g. an intro to what the customizer is), not the specific instructions for changing things, but a general overview of what you can do.
- How to Find Theme-Specific Documentation – This plan should cover how to look at the links to the theme profile in the repo, tags in support and things like that, an explanation that different theme authors do this differently, and notes that there may not be documentation at all.
- Font Management
- Customizer: CSS Changes
- Customizer: Taglines
- Customizer: Static Front Page vs. Content Feed
- Customizer: Site Icons and Logos
- Customizer: Header and Background Images
- Customizer: Menus
If you’d like to work on writing one of these plans, we will help you get set up! If you’re interested in contributing some other way, please find either myself or Melinda Helt and we will find a way for you to contribute. If you can’t find us in person, you can reply to this post or find us in the #training channel on Slack @bethsoderberg and @melindahelt. If you don’t have a Slack account, set one up!
Steps to getting started writing one of the theme plans are:
- Find Melinda or Beth and choose a plan to work on. We will set you up with a login so that you can author your plan on our Make site.
- Take a look at our “Anatomy of a Lesson Plan” page. This page outlines the basic structure that we use for lesson plans. Your plan should follow this structure.
- Browse through our “Style Guide” page. This page outlines the general guidelines we try to follow to ensure that the materials our team produces are as internally consistent as possible.
- Take a look at the “Child Themes” lesson plan to see a sample plan that is complete and has been used in workshops many times.
- Get started writing your plan!
- Ask any questions you have as you go.
We are excited to have you join us at WordCamp NYC’s contributor day!