Meeting Agenda July 14th, 2026

[rjekic]

Training Team meetings start at 07:00 UTC weekly on Tuesdays. 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 also incorporate these asynchronous conversations.

_This week’s meeting will be hosted by @rjekic

1. News

1. Meeting Note Takers

July 14th - @SAndrrew
July 21th - @wpbokul
July 28th - @ahirpravin

2. Looking for feedback

• We are planning to host Office Hours on July 26, 2026, but we need your help:
  • Do you agree with the proposed date - July 26, 2026?
  • We need someone to host the meeting. Please state your interest and availability to host the Office Hours meeting
  • We need a note-taker for the Office Hours meeting. Please state your interest and availability.
  • We would like to know your opinion on how we can improve these meetings and encourage more members to join and participate actively. You can share your suggestion here or in this GitHub issue - Host Office Hours on July 26, 2026 #3535. Big thank you to everyone who has shared feedback so far!
• 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 - Update Handbook : "Handbook" #3447

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:
  Create Thumbnails for Learn WordPress Lessons #3428
• We currently have 530 open issues. It would be great to get support in reviewing and reducing their number. You can help by:
  • 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  • Identifying outdated or irrelevant issues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
• Let’s work together to clean up and keep the repository well-organized

4. Updates from last week's Triage Squad session

• No meeting last week

5. Other announcements and news

• We're Looking for WCUS 2026 Contributor Day Table Leads! If you're planning to attend and would like to represent Traning team, or know someone who would be a great fit, please submit a nomination. We'd love to have you join us!
• Training Team Update – July 5th, 2026 -https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2026/07/05/training-team-update-july-5th-2026/
• WordCamp Rajshahi Contributor Day Update: 10 contributors joined the Training Team table. 🎉 Two new contributors started the Training Team Contributor Course, and @devmuhib009 supported to the Team as a table lead.
• 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/

2. Come and Contribute

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 46 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

3. Contribution Acknowledgement

• Badges awarded:
  • No badges awarded this week

4. Project updates

• We successfully finished the Training Team Office Hours meeting on June 27th and scheduled another one for July 26th. You can read more about it in this P2 post - https://make.wordpress.org/training/2026/06/28/office-hours-meeting-recap-27th-june-2026/
  • Also, we got so many ideas for the next Training Team Office Hour sessions. You can follow, and hopefully join, the discussion in our Slack #training channel - https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RW657Q/p1782803983878699?thread_ts=1782803870.117809&cid=C02RW657Q
• Building on the momentum of our last learning cohort (Block 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.

5. Upcoming Online Workshops

• Kick-off: In 7 Wochen zur eigenen Website – WordPress-Lerngruppe Juli 2026 - https://www.meetup.com/learn-wordpress-online-workshops/events/315067852/

6. Contributor Updates

• 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?

7. Open Discussions

If you have topics you’d like discussed in the meeting, please leave them as a comment on this issue.

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