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Training Team Meeting Recap – 4th August 2026

This meeting followed this meeting agenda. You can see conversations from the meeting in this Slack Log. (If you don’t have a 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/ account, you can set one up.)

Introductions and Welcome

There were 30 attendees: @pravin1996, @jenish1234, @sonaliprajapati, @alkesh7, @dhavalkapadane, @ravigadhiyawp, @fahimmurshed, @sumitsingh, @rithika3, @rfluethi, @jadavsanjay, @huzaifaalmesbah, @dilip2615, @rjekic, @gohelkunjan, @andrewssanya, @makanikaran, @Ibrahimkh4l33l, @palak678, @nikola93n, @mehrazmorshed, @mosescursor, @sibokul, @mohkatz (async), @mebo (async), @ursha (async), @valeriewandeler (async), @nitspatel (async), @vishitshah (async), @VasantRajput (async)

Newcomers: @alanabwarner, @simea, @nityasaha

Meeting hosted by: @SumitSingh

Note Taker: @mohkatz

Note Reviewer: @VasantRajput

The icebreaker question was: What is one WordPress feature or tool you recently discovered that made your work easier? Contributors mentioned tools and features including the WordPress Site Editor, 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. Editor, connectors screen, ACF, Full Site Editing, and other tools that have helped make development, design, and workflow tasks easier.

Welcome! Please post in the #training channel or reach out to a team member to help you with contributing. Resources to check out our onboarding program, and our Guide Program.

News

Meeting Note Takers

Here is our current note taker roster:

Important note: If anyone needs to know more about note-taking and needs guidance in creating a Recap Note Post, they can DM @VasantRajput. He will guide you for a Recap Note and he will review & publish your Recap Post.

Looking for feedback

  • We are planning an Office Hours session for August 22, 2026.
    • Topic: Note-taking and publication workflow: Who does what, and how?
    • More details are available here: Office Hours #3570
  • Several 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/ issues related to Office Hours have also been reviewed.
  • We have discussed starting a regular GitHub triage meeting, but this has not yet been confirmed.
    • Proposed schedule: Triage Squad GitHub triage – biweekly on Thursdays at 07:00 UTC
    • Please share if you would be interested in joining this Slack meeting if the team decides to move forward with it.
  • Big thank you to everyone who has shared feedback so far in Training Team Office Hours #3535.
  • The team is actively updating the Training Team handbooks, and there is still time to contribute.

Looking for volunteers

  • We need help finding content that could be updated and consolidated.
    • One group can review all the Training Team handbook content.
    • One group can review the courses.
  • The team has started creating thumbnails for lessons that still need them.
  • We currently have around 555 open issues, and it may be more effective to divide them into smaller categories and work through them one by one.
    • Going through issues one by one
    • Identifying outdated or irrelevant issues
    • Suggesting fixes or next steps
    • Adding comments where needed before closing or updating
  • Some issues have been labelled Good First Issue.
    • If you want to start contributing, look for issues with this label, particularly those with “Feedback” in the issue title.
    • You can help verify them by following the handbook guidance on validating content feedback issues.
  • For upcoming sessions, the proposal is to divide open issues into smaller groups and work through one categoryCategory The ‘category’ taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. at a time.
  • Please share which category you think should be reviewed first. Once selected, the team can divide the issues and work through them together, one by one.

Updates from last week’s Triage Squad session

  • The team is planning to start Triage Squad GitHub triage, biweekly on Thursdays at 07:00 UTC.
  • If you are interested, please comment or share feedback in the #training channel on WordPress Slack.

Other News

  • The Training Team Monthly Update for August has been published: Training Team Update – August 2nd, 2026
  • The Learn WordPress DACH team launched its first German-language course cohort, Starten mit WordPress, on July 28, 2026. The program is currently running, and discussions with participants are already producing real insights into WordPress.
  • The team successfully hosted the Office Hours session on July 26, 2026 and published a recap post: Office Hours Meeting Recap – 26th July 2026
  • The Learn WordPress website is now 100% translated into Marathi. You can explore the Marathi version here: Learn WordPress in Marathi. A big thank you to @makarand and everyone who contributed to reaching this milestone.
  • Contributors are invited to join WordCamp US 2026 Contributor Day
  • If you are looking for support to attend WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US, see Pitching WordCamp US to Your Boss
  • Local WordPress communities can now learn How to Bring Your Community to Make WordPress Slack

Come and Contribute

This week’s contribution focus area

Contribution Acknowledgement

  • Badges awarded:
    • No badges were awarded this week.
  • Give Props:
    • @sumitsingh: Props to @rjekic for writing and publishing the Training Team Monthly Update for August.
    • @sumitsingh: Props to @rfluethi for drafting the post for the Office Hours session on July 26, 2026.

Project updates

  • Building on the momentum of the Block Theme Development Course cohort, the team is preparing to launch its 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.
  • The team looks forward to helping more students expand their WordPress skills and explore new opportunities within the open-source ecosystem.

Upcoming Online Workshops

Contributor Updates

  • What have you been working on, and how has it been going?
    • @mebo shared that they are continuing work on Module 13’s “Rendering plugin data” lesson, building from Jonathan’s initial draft and expanding the remaining sections. The lesson covers theme templates, Site Editor templates, custom blocks, shortcodes, template tags, and hooking into the_content, with each approach supported by a working code example. There are no blockers, but feedback is welcome on whether the lesson should remain as one lesson or be split, given the number of rendering approaches covered. Review is requested in Rendering plugin data #2182.
  • Anything you’ve accomplished since the last meeting?
  • Do you have any blockers?
  • Can another contributor or a Training Team member help you in some way?

Open Discussions

  • If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue.
  • Currently, no new topics have been raised, but asynchronous contributions are welcome via the Slack thread to continue the discussion.

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.

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