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Meeting agenda for July 14th, 2026

This week’s meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 14th, 2026, at 07:00 UTC. The meeting will be held 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/, in the #training channel. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the meeting by commenting in Slack threads during the meeting and throughout the following days. Meeting notes will be published by the following Tuesday to incorporate these asynchronous conversations as well.

This week’s meeting will be hosted by @rjekic.

1. Intro/Welcome

Welcome to all the new teammates who joined the Training Team this week!

2. News

  1. Meeting Note Takers
  2. Looking for feedback
    • We are planning to host Office Hours on July 26, 2026, but we need your help:
      • Do you agree with the proposed date – July 26, 2026?
      • We need someone to host the meeting. Please state your interest and availability to host the Office Hours meeting
      • We need a note-taker for the Office Hours meeting. Please state your interest and availability.
      • We would like to know your opinion on how we can improve these meetings and encourage more members to join and participate actively. You can share your suggestion here or in this GitHubGitHub GitHub 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/ issue – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3535. Big thank you to everyone who has shared feedback so far!
    • We’re actively updating the Training Team handbooks, and there’s still time to contribute. If you have any suggestions, improvements, or ideas, please share them – we’d greatly appreciate your input – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3447
  3. Looking for volunteers
    • We need your help in finding all the content that could be updated and consolidated. We would love to have two groups of volunteers – one that will go through all the handbook content, and one that will check the courses. Please state your interest, and we will help you organize and start working on these important issues.
    • Also, we started working on creating thumbnails for all lessons that need them. You’re very welcome to join us and contribute to this important and creative project. Here’s the issue with details on how to work on the remaining thumbnails:
      https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3428
    • We currently have 530 open issues. It would be great to get support in reviewing and reducing their number. You can help by:
    • Let’s work together to clean up and keep the repository well-organized
  4. Updates from last week’s Triage Squad session
    • No meeting last week
  5. Other announcements and news

2. Come and Contribute

3. Contribution Acknowledgement

  • Badges awarded:
    • No badges awarded this week

4. Project updates

  • We successfully finished the Training Team Office Hours meeting on June 27th and scheduled another one for July 26th. You can read more about it in this P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org post – https://make.wordpress.org/training/2026/06/28/office-hours-meeting-recap-27th-june-2026/
  • Building on the momentum of our last learning cohort (BlockBlock Block 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. Theme Development Course cohort), we are excited to launch our next cohort focused on PluginPlugin A 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 this month. We look forward to helping more students expand their WordPress skills and explore new opportunities within the open-source ecosystem.
  • Also, we are excited to launch our next cohort focused on Plugin Development next month. We look forward to helping more students expand their WordPress skills and explore new opportunities within the open-source ecosystem.

5. Upcoming Online Workshops

6. Contributor 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 contributors or Training Team members help you in some way?

7. Open Discussions

If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this post.

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.