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- Welcome
- Announcements
- Jen is transitioning out of work with the project. Please ping @chanthaboune on Slack if you have any questions.
- Lesson plan updates
- @chanthaboune finished working on the Content Editor Overview and @meaganhanes will copyedit it.
- @toniaslimm will copyedit the Setting a Static Page as Your Homepage plan.
- @bethsoderberg will do a second copyedit of the General History of WordPress plan.
- @Becks979 is working on the What is WordFence Security lesson plan.
- @wpaleks is testing some of the training on April 7th and a few days later with two audiences: folks new to WP and some colleagues who are developers.
- Discussion of next set of lesson plans
- We referenced our P2 post discussion on lesson plans for “tier 2”.
- Troubleshooting Related Plans
- @bethsoderberg reached out to @ipstenu, who shared the troubleshooting resources from the workshop held years ago. They are located at breakfix.elftest.net and we have permission to use the labs to base lesson plans off of.
- We need to go through these samples and make sure it’s all still accurate (@bethsoderberg thinks these date to 2012 or so). We think the first step is to inventory what is there and make a list of lessons that could be made out of it and then piece together what needs to happen from there.
- Plugin Related Plans
- @wpaleks brought up question of focusing on specific plugins versus talking about the functionality that some plugins offer.
- The plugins that have been listed thus far are the top rated ones from the repository as of WordCamp US, per @meaganhanes.
- @taupecat brought up the issue that not mentioning that a premium version of a plugin exists within the lesson plan about a plugin seems like we’re ignoring information that students should know. We think we can include a sentence indicating that there IS a premium version, but not getting into what features offered through it.
- @chanthaboune asked “Would it makes sense for us to have Plugin lessons that are roughly analogous to Anatomy, Activation, Evaluation, Finding?” roughly corresponding to the structure outlined for theme-related plans. There is already a plan in tier one that covers finding and activation.
- @bethsoderberg proposed an approach that focuses on plugin intent (e.g. caching) and then gives examples of those types of plugins. From there we could still have individual plans for plugins.
- Overall, we are rethinking our approach to the plugin related plans to have general lesson plans about functionality and sub-lessons that go over individual plugins.
- Theme Related Plans
- The areas we cover for themes are: Anatomy, Activation, Evaluation, Finding them… and Testing.
- Tier 2 theme related plans that have been brainstormed/worked on thus far are:
- Anatomy of a Theme (ready to test)
- Activating Themes on Your Site (in spreadsheet)
- Evaluating a theme (in spreadsheet)
- Finding a Theme for Your Site (in spreadsheet)
- Intro to Theme Testing (in spreadsheet) – we all agree we need to better define what this plan would be about.
- We did an intro to the customizer plan in Tier 1 that could be part of this workshop as well.
- Roughly we’re good with the plans we have listed in bullet two, but would like some more configuration/customizer stuff too.
- Modifying Code
- This section was envisioned as “child themes, customizing with CSS/Jetpack, looking at plugin code.” We think that this might be a step beyond what we’re currently looking at as Tier 2. We’re thinking of T3/bonus lesson plans for T2 for these lessons (and others that may straddle the line between T2/3).
- @chanthaboune observed that this plan (as we’re looking at it) would adjust the basic themes of each tier to this: T1=setting up, T2=configuration/extensibility, T3=editing/contributing to themes/plugins, and T4=magical complex code things.
- In general we want to make our website better, especially on mobile.
- @melindahelt asked if we still have access to UI/UX workshop materials that were referenced at WCUS. @chanthaboune will check around to see what she can find.