WCUS: Welcome to Training – DocsWP

Preliminary tasks:

Plugins:
- top 10 plugins in repo
- what plugins are shared hosts providing upon installation?
Plugins – where to find, what to do, evaluating, recs – existing lesson plan “choosing and installing plugins” needs to be reviewed to determine if it is missing anything
objectives for plans outlined as to be written

Intro to Themes
Intro to Plugins
Themes – where to find, what to do, evaluating, recs
editing plugins
design for theming
getting a theme into the repo
Lesson plan of the top 10 plugins in repo (and default plugins installed by shared hosts)

Intro to WordPress (Q1 workshops) –
- what can you do with WordPress
Dashboard overview
- content editor overview
- managing media
- managing widgets
- pages vs posts
Basic troubleshooting
- troubleshooting basics
Building a theme from _S
- custom post types
Building a plugin
- what goes in plugins vs what goes in functions.php

Review the changes to WP versions mentioned on https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DAG_iSZEDW07Y9q8dcMpAyEK9QtKhuLDEOqrP7hsgGc/edit?usp=sharing and determine which lesson plans are impacted
Revise lesson plans with outdated screenshots/content

Get assigned to a plan by a training team member
- Check your email for confirmation. It will be the same email address associated with your http://wordpress.org user profile.
- If you need to create an account: https://wordpress.org/support/register.php
Login at https://make.wordpress.org/wp-admin/
- You may be presented with several options of teams, depending upon your involvement with other teams:
From the Dashboard, you can see which plan you have permissions to access:
From the front end:
- Navigation Menu -> Lesson Plans
- Browse to the lesson plan you are editing
- Select edit from the top of your screen to enjoy WordPress dashboard’s familiar post/page style editor.
- Editing on the front end of a P2 is great for composing plain text or writing html manually. It doesn’t offer a way to upload screenshots.