This week’s meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 7th, 2026, at 07:00 UTC. The meeting will be held on Slack, 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 @sumitsingh.
1. Intro/Welcome
Welcome to all the new teammates who joined the Training Team this week!
2. News
- Meeting Note Takers
- July 7th – @mohkatz
- July 14th – @andrewssanya
- July 21st – @sibokul
- July 28th – @pravin1996
- Looking for feedback
- We are planning to host Office Hours on July 26, 2026, but I’ve noticed that not many members are joining the Zoom meetings. Could you please suggest how we can improve these meetings and encourage more members to join and participate actively? – You can share your suggestion here or in this GitHub issue, please Host Office Hours on July 26, 2026 #3535
- 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 – Update Handbook : “Handbook” #3447
- Feedback – Outdated content in lesson “Retrieving WordPress data records” – Feedback – Outdated content in lesson “Retrieving WordPress data records” #3546
- Feedback – Outdated link in lesson “Custom database tables” – Feedback – Outdated link in lesson “Custom database tables” #3547
- Feedback – Wording of the quiz question in lesson “Managing spam on your site” – Feedback – Wording of the quiz question in lesson “Managing spam on your site” #3544
- Bengali Course Translation for “WordPress Credits” – Bengali Course Translation for “WordPress Credits” #3534
- 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:
- Going through issues one by one
- Identifying outdated or irrelevant issues
- Suggesting fixes or next steps
- Adding comments where needed (before closing or updating)
- We labeled some of the issues as Good First Issues – if you want to start contributing, this is your starting point. Just go and find issues labeled as Good First Issue, particularly those that have Feedback in the issue title – help us verify them, and you will earn the Training Team Contributor badge in no time. Just follow this handbook article –https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/training-team-how-to-guides/how-we-use-github/validating-and-applying-content-feedback/#validating-content-feedback-issues
- Let’s work together to clean up and keep the repository well-organized
- Updates from last week’s Triage Squad session
- No meeting last week
- Other announcements and news
- Training Team Monthly update for June is published – https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2026/07/05/training-team-update-july-5th-2026/
- WordCamp Rajshahi Contributor Day Update: 10 contributors joined the Training Team table. 🎉 Two new contributors started the Training Team Contributor Course, and @devmuhib009 supported to the Team as a table lead.
- How to Bring Your Community to Make WordPress Slack?
https://make.wordpress.org/community/2026/06/09/how-to-bring-your-community-to-make-wordpress-slack/ - We’re Looking for WCUS 2026 Contributor Day Table Leads! If you’re planning to attend and would like to represent Traning team, or know someone who would be a great fit, please submit a nomination. We’d love to have you join us!
2. Come and Contribute
- Content ready for review
- See Guidelines for reviewing content when reviewing content.
- We have 9 issues ready for review
- See Guidelines for reviewing content when reviewing content.
- Feedback awaiting validation
- See Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on validating feedback.
- We have 48 issues that require validation
- See Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on validating feedback.
- Topics awaiting vetting
- See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
- We have 2 issues that require vetting
- See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
- Validated feedback awaiting fix
- Contributors, see Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on applying feedback that has been validated.
- We have 25 issues awaiting a fix
- Contributors, see Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on applying feedback that has been validated.
3. Contribution Acknowledgement
- Badges awarded:
- Training Contributor badge awarded to @ursha! Congratulations!
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 P2 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 (Block Theme Development Course cohort), we are excited to launch our next cohort focused on Plugin Development this 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
- Kick-off: In 7 Wochen zur eigenen Website – WordPress-Lerngruppe Juli 2026 – Tuesday, Jul 14 · 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM UTC
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.