This week’s meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 11th, 2026, at 07:00 UTC. The meeting will be held on Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/, 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 @rjekic.

Welcome to all the new teammates who joined the Training Team this week!

1. Meeting Note Takers
   • Aug 11th – @andrewssanya
   • Aug 18th – @sibokul
   • Aug 25th – @makanikaran
   • Sep 1st – @sonaliprajapati
2. Looking for feedback
   • We are also 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: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3570
     • We have also reviewed several GitHub 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. You can view all open Office Hours tickets and share your suggestions here: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22Office%20Hours%22
   • 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 let us know if you would be interested in joining this Slack meeting if we decide to move forward with it.
     • 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: https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3447. Big thank you to everyone who has shared feedback so far!
   • Our colleague, @mebo, revived the Learning Pathway Course: Intermediate Plugin 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. Developer Course – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2044. She started working on course modules and lessons, and you can help her by suggesting and giving your opinion on newly created content – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/2182#issuecomment-5203614201
3. 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 552 open issues. It would be most effective to divide them into smaller categories and work through them one by one.
     • We can start with a label that is suitable for everyone to review. We suggest this simple workflow:
       • 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
     • For the upcoming sessions, we should divide the open issues into smaller groups and work through one category The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. at a time. This should make the process more organised and easier for everyone to participate in.
       • We could begin with: [Content] Needs Translation Reviewer – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22%5BContent%5D%20Needs%20Translation%20Reviewer%22 – Based on feedback from our last meeting, @rfluethi suggested starting with issues in the Bug category, as these are both the highest priority and likely the easiest to address. Please review the open tickets and share any feedback or suggestions you may have.
     • However, we would appreciate your suggestions on which category would be the easiest and most useful for everyone to start with. Other available categories include:
       • Issues without a label
       • Awaiting Triage
       • [Content] Feedback
       • [Type] Bug
     • Please share which category you think we should review first. Once selected, we can divide the issues and work through them together, one by one.
     • Let’s work together to clean up and keep the repository well-organized
4. Updates from last week’s Triage Squad session
   • We are planning to start, so if you would be interested, then comment or join the #Training team channel on WordPress Slack
5. Other announcements and news
   • Training Team Monthly update for July is published – Training Team Update – August 2nd, 2026
   • On 28 July, the Learn WordPress DACH team launched its first German-language course cohort, “Starten mit WordPress.” A huge thank you to everyone who signed up and to our cohort facilitators for helping bring this initiative to life. DACH team is looking forward to seven weeks of learning WordPress together through weekly live sessions and engaging asynchronous activities in between.
   • We successfully hosted our Office Hours session on 26 July 2026 and have published a recap post: https://make.wordpress.org/training/2026/07/30/office-hours-meeting-recap-26th-july-2026/. Thank you so much for the draft post, @rfluethi.
   • The Learn WordPress website is now 100% translated into Marathi! 🎉 You can explore the Marathi version here: https://learn.wordpress.org/?locale=mr. A big thank you to @makarand  & everyone who contributed to reaching this milestone.
   • Join WordCamp 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 2026 Contributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ – https://us.wordcamp.org/2026/join-wordcamp-us-2026-contributor-day/
   • Pitching WordCamp US to Your Boss – https://us.wordcamp.org/2026/pitching-wordcamp-us-to-your-boss/
   • 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/

• Content ready for review
  • See Guidelines for reviewing content when reviewing content.
    • We have 9 issues ready for review
• Feedback awaiting validation
  • See Validating and Applying Content Feedback for step-by-step guidance on validating feedback.
    • We have 47 issues that require validation
• Topics awaiting vetting
  • See Vetting Topic Ideas for step-by-step guidance on vetting topic ideas.
    • We have 2 issues that require vetting
• 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

• Badges awarded:
  • No badges awarded this week

• Building on the momentum of our last learning cohort (Block 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. 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.
• Also, we are excited to launch our next cohort focused on Plugin Development next month. We look forward to helping more students expand their WordPress skills and explore new opportunities within the open-source ecosystem.

• WordCamp US 2026 Contributor Day Online, Sunday, August 16 – https://www.meetup.com/learn-wordpress-online-workshops/events/315907994

• 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?

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.