Hari Shanker R 6:29 pm on August 19, 2020
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Announcement: Enabling G Suite for WordCamp.org emails

Based on feedback from Community organizers, the WordPress Community team has decided to switch all city@wordcamp.org email accounts to G Suite. We plan to implement the switch a week from now, on Wednesday, August 26. All new WordCamps, along with all existing camps that from 2019 and 2020 that had at least made to pre-planning, will get a G Suite account.

Background

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. organizing teams have always been provided a city@wordcamp.org email address in order to look more official when contacting venues, sponsors, etc. Historically, we have created email forwarders for all camp organizers, and set up POP/IMAP access as well as cPanel based email accounts for some organizers upon request. However, the cPanel based webmail client we used was not very user-friendly and doesn’t work well when multiple people are using it. Organizers have found it challenging to track emails at a central location, and send outgoing emails from the city@wordcamp.org account. 

The WordPress foundation was approved for a G Suite for Non-profits account in April 2020, which we can use for the wordcamp.org domain. G Suite provides a host of tools (including Gmail, Drive and Docs, Google Meet, and YouTube) that WordCamps can use, along with a modern, user-friendly interface. We reached out to organizers to get some feedback on how they would like to use the WordCamp email accounts. The feedback we received was that our existing email service implementation had several shortcomings and made us realize that Community Members would benefit immensely from a G Suite account.

Hence the team has decided to implement G Suite for all WordCamp accounts, in August 2020.  

Features

Here is a comprehensive list of all the tools we have made available for WordCamp organizers, listed along with training docs for the respective tools.

  • Calendar: For scheduling events amongst WordCamp organizers.
  • Drive: You get 30 GB of Google Drive space for all your information.
  • Docs, Sheets, and Slides: You can use these tools to store your docs, create/manage spreadsheets, or even store talk slides. 
  • Gmail: For all your email needs. 
  • Groups for Business: For group communications. 
  • Google Meet: Organizers can use G Suite for video calls between your teams and online sessions. Through September 30, 2020, all G Suite customers can use advanced Meet features, like larger meetings (up to 250 participants), live streaming, and recording. Google Meet for G Suite non-profits only has the standard Google Meet features available for all Google accounts. The trial is available only for paid G Suite accounts.
  • Hangouts Chat: Basic chat features
  • Tasks: Task management for your organizing team
  • YouTube: You can live-stream your online events and host local Camp/MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. videos.
  • Maps: Useful for in-person WordCamps to store location/map information and to create c custom maps. 
  • Keep: Helps you store notes.

Getting a G Suite Account for your WordCamp

  • All approved WordCamps from August 2020 will get a G Suite account automatically instead of a cPanel based email account. We can also set up a collaborative inbox for the organizing team upon request.
  • All WordCamps that are currently on the schedule, along with all WordCamps in 2020 that had made it to pre-planning as well as WordCamps that were successfully completed in 2019, will get a G Suite account. The email forwarders for these camps will continue to work, but organizers will lose access to cPanel email accounts (if they were using the same). Organizers of camps that had wrapped up in 2019, as well as camps that had made it at least to a pre-planning stage in 2020, will get a G Suite account. We will email organizers separately with G Suite credentials. 
  • Email addresses of all older camps (Camps that last had an event in 2018 or earlier) will be deactivated. Their email forwarders will also stop working. If any camp organizers from past years would like to keep their city@wordcamp.org email address in G Suite, they can email to support@wordcamp.org to request access for the same. We will consider this on a case-by-case basis. 

Implementation

WordCamp.org currently uses the built-in cPanel emailing feature. We plan to point the MX records of the WordCamp.org domain to G Suite on August 26, 2020 (Wednesday). DNSDNS DNS is an acronym for Domain Name System - how you assign a human readable address to a website’s exact numeric coded location (ie. wordpress.org uses the actual IP address 198.143.164.252). Propagation could take up to 48 hours. However, based on our tests, this should take only a few minutes. During this time, existing WordCamp organizers might face a short downtime for their emails during the migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. process. 

FAQs

I’m the organizer of a 2020 camp. How do I get access to G Suite?
If you are the organizer of a 2020 camp, you will have received an email about this from us already, announcing the switch. We will follow up with you later this week with an email to your city@wordcamp.org email address, with credentials or instructions to reset your password for the G Suite address before we switch over to G Suite. Please follow the instructions to create a G Suite account. The email account will start working after we officially complete the migration on August 26, 2020 (Wednesday).

My WordCamp has wrapped up, but I’d like to get access to a G Suite account for valid reasons. How do I proceed?
We will provide G Suite access to all WordCamps from 2019 and 2020. We will email the credentials separately to you in your existing account before we make the switch to G Suite (ideally later this week), so that you can reset the password, log in, and access the G Suite account. Typically, we don’t revoke access to city@wordcamp.org email addresses once the Camp has concluded (until the next event). However, email access for the Camp’s email address is only enabled until the event concludes. So if the last edition of your camp was held in 2018 or earlier, we may not be able to create a G Suite account for you (unless you’re applying for a new event that has successfully completed its orientation). However, if you would like to gain access to your camp’s email address for legitimate reasons (for example, to follow-up on post-wrap-up tasks), you can reach out to us, and we’d be happy to provide you access to the G Suite account. Please note: This will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Will email forwarders configured originally for the camp during set up stop working?
Email forwarders for all the WordCamps that we will be providing a G Suite address for (WordCamps from 2019 and 2020), will keep working. Email forwarders for other camps (that had their last event held in 2018 or earlier) will stop working. 

I’d like to have a certain feature from G Suite for my Camp
We have only enabled limited G Suite features with the WordCamp G Suite account. However, if you feel that a specific feature would be useful for your camp, you can request it by emailing support@wordcamp.org.

WordPress is an open-source project. Is using a proprietary platform such as G Suite for such a project really a good idea?
The mission of WordPress is to decentralize the internet. In that sense, using the services of one company that is an internet major does seem counter-intuitive given that there are open-source alternatives that we can try out. 

The decision to use G Suite is motivated by pragmatism, and serves to minimize the amount of developer time we require to maintain our systems. YouTube has turned out to be the best way to live stream videos for online WordCamps. Having a G Suite account prevents the risk of using the WordCamp CentralWordCamp Central Website for all WordCamp activities globally. https://central.wordcamp.org includes a list of upcoming and past camp with links to each. YouTube account for live streaming, and allows organizers to embed live streams on WordCamp sites without turning on monetization. Additionally, in our research, we found out that most of the organizers were using either a Gmail account or a paid G Suite account, along with other features such as Google Docs and Drive. Hence, G Suite seems like the right fit for our requirements. 

Based on that background, using G Suite for email will also allow us to free up valuable developer time to work on higher-impact contributor tools.

I’m currently managing emails using a POP/IMAP client. How do I go ahead?
G Suite offers a better, more transparent method of connecting to POP/IMAP clients. Organizers will be able to create these connections on their own, rather than having to wait on WordCamp Central Deputies. 

Do you have any questions or concerns about the G Suite implementation? Do you have any suggestions on how best we can make use of G Suite? Is there anything about this announcement that is unclear? Let us know in the comments! 

#email #gsuite #wordcamps #announcements

Mary Job 7:21 am on August 19, 2020
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Community Team Chat Agenda | August 20 2020

Hello Team!

Our bi-monthly Community Team chat is happening this Thursday, 20th August 2020. Meeting times are detailed below. We use the same agenda for both meetings in order to include all time zones.

Asia-Pacific / EMEA friendly: Thursday, August 20, 2020, 11:00 UTC

Americas friendly: Thursday, August 20, 2020, 20:00 UTC

Deputy/Mentor check-in

What have you been doing and how is it going?

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/. posts needing review/feedback

  • Proposal: Managing discussion group signups – Cami Kaos – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/08/06/proposal-managing-discussion-group-signups/
  • Diverse Speaker Workshops Report, July 2020 – Jillbinder – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/08/06/diverse-speaker-workshops-report-july-2020/
  • Learn WordPress: Project Details and Roadmap – Hugh Lashbrooke – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/08/07/learn-wordpress-project-details-and-roadmap/
  • Tuesday Trainings: How to be an excellent discussion group leader – Angela Jin – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/08/11/tuesday-trainings-how-to-be-an-excellent-discussion-group-leader/
  • Recap of the Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) on August 12, 2020 – Jillbinder – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/08/12/recap-of-the-diverse-speaker-training-group-wpdiversity-on-august-12-2020/
  • Meetup Organizer Newsletter: August 2020 – Hari Shanker R – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/08/14/meetup-organizer-newsletter-august-2020/
  • Call for Learn WordPress Volunteers (Video/Translation/Discussion Group) – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/08/17/xpost-call-for-learn-wordpress-volunteers-video-translation-discussion-group/ – Naoko Takano
  • Discussion: Preparing for a full launch of Learn WordPress – Angela Jin – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/08/18/discussion-preparing-for-a-full-launch-of-learn-wordpress/
  • Tuesday Trainings: Get to know your contributor teams – Cami Kaos – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/08/18/tuesday-trainings-get-to-know-the-contributor-teams/

Highlighted P2 posts

  • Learn WordPress is Live – Hugh Lashbrooke (Featured Post) – https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/08/12/learn-wordpress-is-live/

Please add any additional items to this agenda by commenting on this post as needed.

#community-team, #deputy-chat, #meeting-agenda

Cami Kaos 9:17 pm on August 18, 2020
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Tuesday Trainings: Get to know the contributor teams!

No matter how long one has been involved with a project, I find, there is always room to chat about the basics. So this week, inspired by a recent workshop on Learn.WordPress presented by @courtneypk and myself, I thought a project team map would be in order.

The WordPress open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project consists of a global community of people who collaborate on and contribute to the project. These volunteer contributors bring a variety of experience and skills, including software development, design, support, security, training, writing, localizing/translating, event organizing, and the list goes on. 

The contributor community is organized into contributor teams. These teams can be sorted under the categories of Building, Operations, Extending, and Supporting.

Building

  • Core – They write the code that is the “coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.” of the WordPress software.
  • Design – Help design and develop the user interface for WordPress.
  • Accessibility – Making WordPress & everything on WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ accessible to people with disabilities.
  • Meta – Help with the infrastructure that powers WordPress.org and WordCamp.org.
  • Mobile – Help build the Mobile apps for WordPress.
  • Test – Help patrol, test, and curate the WordPress experience via QA, testing, and user research.

Operations

  • Marketing – Help develop the materials and resources to market the WordPress software and community.
  • Hosting – Make WordPress hosting better for everyone through collaboration, tools, and documentation of best practices.

Extending

  • Themes – Review incoming theme code to keep your theme directory in great shape.
  • Polyglots – Translate all the things and maintain localized sites on WordPress.org.
  • Plugins – Keep the 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 directory safe by reviewing code and ensuring standards.
  • Tide – Learn how to make your plugin or theme more standardized, faster, and more secure.
  • CLI – Contribute to WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/, the official command line tool for managing your WordPress site.

Supporting

  • Community – Bring people together with events (like meetups, WordCamps, and Contributor events). Outreach initiatives for diversity and inclusion.
  • Documentation – Help write and edit documentation.
  • Training – Create curricula for free WordPress training courses that people can trust.
  • Support – Answer questions to help other WordPress users in the support forums and IRC.
  • TV – Moderate incoming videos, help with post-processing, and transcribe/subtitle videos.

Whether you use this team map as a helpful reminder of who we are and what we’re doing, you learn about a team you didn’t know about, or you’re reminded of somewhere you might point someone to get involved or grow your involvement to another team, I hope this back to basics look at WordPress teams has been useful.

As we move into our third month of the Tuesday Trainings series I wanted to ask you, what kind of content would you like to see in this series? Please let me know in the comments! And if it’s something you’d like to volunteer to write, please let me know that too!

#tuesdaytrainings

Angela Jin 8:00 am on August 18, 2020
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Discussion: Preparing for a full launch of Learn WordPress

Last week, the Community and Training teams went live with Learn WordPress. This new, exciting platform has the potential to help train people, from beginner to expert, how to use and extend WordPress. 

Now that the site is live, it’s time to look at doing a full launch of Learn WordPress, announcing this sensational initiative to as many people as possible, and inviting them to contribute content and to learn with each other. We invite you to share your thoughts with us about what we need to have or see happen before we can do the full launch. A few ideas could include: 

  • At least one full “course” of workshops, or a complete series
  • An integrated workshop application form
  • Integrated session feedback – perhaps using the recently developed 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. speaker feedback tool
  • A few non-English workshops

What other criteria should we be working towards? What other features or content should we have before full launch?

Please share your thoughts and comments on this post. We will close comments on Monday, August 24, 2020.

#roadmpa

Hugh Lashbrooke 12:33 pm on August 17, 2020
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X-post: Call for Learn WordPress Volunteers (Video/Translation/Discussion Group)

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WordCamp.org 4:00 am on August 17, 2020
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Weekly Updates

Hello to all our Deputies, 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. organizers, MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. wranglers, and WordPress Community builders! You were probably hard at work this weekend. Tell us what you got accomplished in our #weekly-update!

Have you run into a roadblock with the stuff you’re working on? Head over to #community-events or #community-team in 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/. and ask for help!

Hari Shanker R 9:59 am on August 14, 2020
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Meetup Organizer Newsletter: August 2020

Hello friends,

It’s time for another edition of our meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. organizer newsletter, packed full of updates from the WordPress world and our community!

Newsletter contents:

  • Check out the brand new Learn WordPress Platform
  • WordPress 5.5 is now available
  • Online Event Updates
  • Tuesday Trainings

Check out the brand new Learn WordPress platform

Learn WordPress is a brand new cross-team initiative led by the WordPress Community team, with support from the training team, the TV team, and the meta team. This platform is a learning repository on learn.wordpress.org where WordPress learning content will be made available. The first iteration has launched with a few workshops, and more will be added each week. The four initial workshops are:

In addition to these workshops, we will also be hosting supplementary discussion groups based on the content of the workshops – facilitated by discussion group leaders. Anyone can be a discussion group leader, including workshop presenters themselves! The first of these discussion groups have been scheduled,and you can join an upcoming discussion on the dedicated meetup group. More will be added as new workshops are published. Each workshop page will link to the meetup group.

Want to contribute to the Learn WordPress program? Here’s how:

You can learn more about the background and the roadmap of the Learn WordPress program in the following Make/Community P2 post.

How Meetup groups can benefit from the Learn WordPress platform

Meetup organizers can use the Learn WordPress content for their meetup events – simply ask your meetup group to watch one of the workshops in the weeks leading up to your scheduled event, and then host a discussion group for that content as your event. If you do this, you do not have to apply to be a discussion group leader using the form above – you can just go ahead and do it as an existing organizer.

If you are interested, you can start right away by organizing a discussion group based on one of the available workshops for your meetup group. If you would like some guidance on how to make use of the Learn WordPress platform, check out our Tuesday Training post on the topic: How to be an excellent discussion group leader.

WordPress 5.5 is now available

WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine” (named in honor of Billy Eckstine) came out on August 11th 2020. The release is a major update with a host of features like automatic updates for plugins and themes, enabling updates over uploaded ZIP files, a 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. directory, XML sitemaps, block patterns, inline image-editing, and lazy-loading images, to name a few. WordPress 5.5 is now available in 47 languages too! You can update to the latest version directly from your WordPress dashboard or download it directly from WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/. 

As organizers, you can now help spread the word about WordPress 5.5 through your local meetup groups! Contributors from the WordPress marketing team are working on slides that could be used by Meetups to promote the new release. We request meetup organizers to fill in this survey from the team so that they can support the marketing needs of meetup groups in general. The survey will also help the marketing team to come up with resources for organizers so as to help them promote WordPress 5.5. 

Online Event Updates

Updates to the WordPress online events program

The WordPress Community team has implemented some major changes to our online events program during the past couple of months. The Community team made the difficult decision to suspend in-person WordPress events for the rest of 2020 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The team has decided not to accept new applications for flagship events for 2021, and to move existing flagship events planned for 2021 online. Based on feedback from the community members, the team has also decided to make changes to the current online WordCamp format. Key changes include wrapping up financial support for A/V vendors and event swag for newer online WordCamps, as well as suspending the Global Community Sponsorship program for 2020.

Featured Online Meetup

This month, Luke Carbis and Jonathan Wold organized one of the first “virtual” WordPress meetups! The event was held in a 3D virtual world (powered by a hosted instance of Mozilla Hubs – an open-source platform for creating virtual spaces), via the WordPress Brisbane Meetup. The large virtual hall, designed specifically for the event, was big enough for the 12 or so participants to break out into smaller groups, holding multiple conversations at once. The 3D audio helped participants feel immersed in the space, hearing people to the left and right, closer or further away. Most people joined from their computer, and some even joined from their VR headsets, including the presenter Jonathan who talked about the future of WordPress and the Open Web. Attendees could see Jonathan’s head movements and hand gestures as he delivered the session. Luke and Jonathan plan to organize monthly virtual events of a similar nature, and have already started planning their next virtual event. 

The picture shows a virtual “stage” where the session was held.

Would you like to highlight recent online events from your local meetup group in our monthly newsletter? We will publish a “call for content” post for the next edition of the newsletter in the first week of August on the Make/Community Blog. Please comment on the blog post when it is up or send us an email to support@wordcamp.org to share about events in your local meetup group.

Upcoming Online Events

WordPress Meetup groups worldwide are currently organizing online events instead of in-person events due to COVID-19. The team recommends meetup organizers to avoid in-person meetups for the rest of 2020, to ensure the safety and well being of our community members. However, since meetup events are online, you can now attend meetups and WordCamps across the world from the comfort of your own home! You can find out about all upcoming online events here: https://make.wordpress.org/community/events/online/

If you are holding a meetup online and would like to have a global audience, please use the tag #OnlineWPMeetup so that the Marketing team can find you and bring you some communications and marketing support. We’d also like to remind organizers of our Online events handbook page that offers a wealth of information on organizing online events. 

Here’s a list of upcoming online WordCamps. Don’t forget to grab your free tickets for these events! 

Diversity speaker training

The Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) is holding workshops in July to support diverse voices to share knowledge and stories at online WordPress meetups and WordCamps. They have the following events scheduled for August – October 2020:

  • August 18-20, 2020: Beginner Speaking Topics
  • September 8-10, 2020: Intermediate Speaking Workshops
  • September 24, 2020: Hold your own Speaker workshop (Asia timezone)
  • October 6-9, 2020: Beginner Speaking Topics
  • October 24, 2020: Hold your own Speaker workshop (America timezone)

Read more and get the sign-up links as they are announced here to share with your communities: https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/wpdiversityworkshops/

Follow the #WPDiversity hashtag on social media if you would like to keep track of diversity workshops. 

Tuesday Trainings

Through Tuesday Trainings (#tuesdaytrainings) we publish a different topic on the WordPress Community Blog to train organizers and interested community members in a variety of skills, while also adding additional training documentation to our handbooks. Every Tuesday, a different topic will be highlighted on the WordPress Community Blog. You can find links to the latest Tuesday training posts below: 

If you have any questions, Community Team deputies are available to help. Please send an email to support@wordcamp.org or join the #community-events 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/. channel. Thanks for everything you do to grow the WordPress community, let’s keep sharing knowledge and inspiring each other with our contributions! 

We’ll see you online soon!

+make.wordpress.org/marketing/

#newsletter

Hugh Lashbrooke 6:58 pm on August 13, 2020
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jillbinder 6:55 pm on August 12, 2020
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Recap of the Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) on August 12, 2020

Summary:
We talked about how our July Diverse Speaker workshops went and the plans for beginner & intermediate workshops August through November. I shared a document for feedback for volunteer sign-ups for workshop assistants. Our workshops are going to be part of the new Learn WordPress initiative, for self-guided learning and live group discussions. We followed up on team members’ current tasks.

Continue reading →

#wpdiversity

Hugh Lashbrooke 6:17 pm on August 12, 2020
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Learn WordPress is Live

I’m excited to announce that the all-new Learn WordPress platform is now available!

This post contains full details and a roadmap for this project, so head over there for some background and additional useful information. Going forward, Learn WordPress is going to be focussed on three main areas of content and interaction:

Workshops

At the time of this launch, there are four workshops available with more planned to be added each week. These initial four workshops are:

  • Intro to GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ 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. Development
  • Introduction to Contributing to WordPress
  • Introduction to Open-Source
  • Intro to Publishing with the Block Editor

These workshops appeal to a wide range of WordPress users and builders – from publishers to developers and contributors – even people unfamiliar with open-source and WordPress. They also cover a wide range of topics; anything related to how people interact with WordPress is welcome! The number of available workshops will grow over time, and we will see more and more content focussed on helping people learn how to use and contribute to WordPress.

Editor’s Note: The application link below has been updated.

If you would like to submit a workshop to the site, please feel in this form – your submission will be reviewed, and you will be contacted within a few days to confirm if you should go ahead with recording it. Workshops can be submitted in any language as we would love to see this site be as multilingual as possible. Here’s a sheet with some ideas for workshops that would be valuable – you’re welcome to submit any of these as your workshop and even add to the sheet if there’s content that you would like to see on the site.

You can fill in this form if you would like to assist with reviewing submitted workshop applications.

Lesson Plans

Over the last few years, the Training team has been working tirelessly on creating lesson plans that people can use to run their own workshops. All 85 of these lesson plans are available on the site – they are an excellent resource for anyone wanting to teach people about WordPress. You could even use these lesson plans for workshops that you submit!

The Training team would love additional contributions to identify outdated lesson plans, revise and update those plans, connect multiple lesson plans into a workshop, and to create slides. You can get started here.

Discussion Groups

While recorded workshops are great for learning and personal development, one key aspect that they lack is the personal interaction that you would usually have at an in-person event. With that in mind, we will also be hosting optional discussion groups based on the content of the workshops – led by the workshop presenters themselves, as well as other community members.

The first of these discussion groups have been scheduled – you will find them on the dedicated meetup group – and more will be added as new workshops are published. Each workshop page will link to the meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. group.

Anyone interested in leading a discussion group on any of the workshops on the site is welcome to do so. For more information about what is expected of discussion group leaders, check out this Tuesday Trainings post about leading discussion groups. If you’re interested and ready to become a discussion group leader, you can apply to do so here. 

Additionally, meetup organisers can use the Learn WordPress content for their meetup events – simply ask your meetup group to watch one of the workshops in the weeks leading up to your scheduled event, and then host a discussion group for that content as your event. If you do this, then you do not have to apply to be a discussion group leader using the form above – you can just go ahead and do it as an existing organiser.

Get Involved

Workshops

You can apply to present a workshop or to assist with reviewing submitted workshops. You can also add ideas for workshops that you would like to see on the site.

Lesson Plans

You can help out with updating and contributing new lesson plans by following this guide.  Lesson plans are developed on GitHub and published on Learn WordPress.

Discussion Groups

Meetup organisers can organise discussion groups as part of their existing meetup group, or you can apply to be a discussion group leader.

Development

Development of Learn WordPress is being managed on GitHub – you can head over these to log issues and contribute code.

Getting this platform live has been a strong collaboration between the Community, Training, TV, and MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. teams – thank you to everyone who contributed to getting things ready for this launch: @rmarks, @melchoyce, @dufresnesteven, @coreymckrill, @dd32, @tellyworth, @psykro, @andreamiddleton, @angelasjin, @courane01, @camikaos, @bph, @courtneypk, @casiepa, @harishanker, @evarlese, @nao, @francina, @liljimmi, @courtneydawn, @bethsoderberg, @juliekuehl, @jessecowens, @chetan200891, @man4toman, @chanthaboune, and everyone else who provided feedback, tested the new site, and contributed so much of the content.

Thank you to the many lesson plan contributors, presenters, reviewers, and more from over the past few years: @bethsoderberg, @bharatkambariya, @bri1ckman, @BrilliantPamela, @brocheafoin, @btrandolph, @c3zh, @carolstambaugh, @chanthaboune, @chetan200891, @chiragpatel, @chmchm, @CoachBirgit, @codente, @conradhallauthor, @courane01, @courtneydawn, @danstramer, @dcoleonline, @decwinser, @donkiely, @DragonFalcon, @dufresnesteven, @epetrashen, @epkruger, @estelaris, @esteschris, @fahimmurshed, @Flash-McDirt, @gdavis0007, @geektutor, @gilzow, @gkloveweb, @gonza166, @graham2621, @GregF, @Gwendydd, @helen, @iandunn, @immeet94, @ittoufiq, @iwritten, @jakilevy, @janet357, @jankimoradiya, @jcasabona, @jenwill, @JerrySarcastic, @jessecowens, @jillbinder, @joostdevalk, @JudyLW, @juiiee8487, @juliekuehl, @kartiks16, @kdrewien, @kenso-trabing, @ketuchetan, @kevinkautzman, @KimWhite, @kshivler, @librariancrafter, @likethegoddess, @liljimmi, @lunacodes, @m_butcher, @man4toman, @meaganhanes, @megane9988, @MelChoyce, @MelindaHelt, @mike_piercy, @mikemueller, @mukesh27, @nofearinc, @noplanman, @OlalaWeb, @operapreneur, @Otto42, @owlsheadbiz, @passoniate, @pbrocks, @Pcosta88, @pdclark, @petj, @pwbrowne, @rachelcavery, @rfair404, @rtenshi, @ryancanhelpyou, @samuelsidler, @Scaryevilclowns, @sethaugustus, @shashank3105, @singhsivam, @siobhan, @skarjune, @stacyduval, @suzettefranck, @taraclaeys, @taupecat, @tecdoc, @tgibs, @toniaslimm, @torlowski, @tristup, @trynet, @viitorcloudvc, @vincek1, @vmarie, @webcreative, @webtechpooja, @webtrainingwheels, @WPAleks, @wpdevsolutions, @wpfreely, @wpnzach, @yvbrooks, @zgordon, @zoonini, and @zstepek

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