This week’s meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 29th, 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 @sumitsingh.

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

1. Meeting Note Takers
   • Sep 29th – @pravin1996
   • Oct 6th – @makanikaran
   • Oct 13th – @alkesh7
   • Oct 20th – @softglaze
2. Looking for feedback
   • Making team homepages could be more visually engaging and make it easier for newcomers to contribute, so I created a 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.-based prototype for the Training Team homepage: https://playground.wordpress.net/?import-site=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chekle/Make-Homepage/main/wordpress-playground-training.zip , We’d love your feedback on the overall ide. Thank you so much for sharing this new things@clk87. Here is 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/ for share feedback – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3674
   • The next Office Hours will take place on a weekday as a trial; we will avoid Monday and Friday. The session will take place on a weekday as a trial, avoiding Monday and Friday. it will take place in the last week of October: Tuesday, October 27, Wednesday, October 28, or Thursday, October 29, 2026. @sumit will set the date and time after the proposal at the Tuesday meeting
   • We had a great conversation around exploring text-to-speech / read-aloud for course lesson content, and @softglaze has built some prototypes for us. It would be great to get more feedback from Training Team members before we move to working with Meta 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. team for implementation
   • 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.
   • 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 we are waiting for your suggestions and opinions on the proposal she created – Rendering plugin data #2182 (comment). Remember, GitHub activity is one of the easiest and most convenient ways to contribute.
3. Looking for volunteers
   • Schedule the next Office Hours: weekday trial, date, moderator, and note-taker – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3679
   • Open source basics and WordPress; Quiz question answers for “What benefits can lead to a conflict of interest – https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/3675
   • 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 586 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
   • No triage squad meetings last week
   • We are planning to start, so if you are interested, comment here or join the #Training team channel on WordPress Slack
5. Other announcements and news
   • Writing a short description of the Office Hours format, review it together, and publish it – @sumitsinghwp (draft: @rfluethi )
   • We successfully hosted our Office Hours session on September 26, 2026 published – https://make.wordpress.org/training/2026/09/29/office-hours-meeting-recap-september-26-2026/ – Thank you so much for the draft post, @rfluethi
   • Training Team Monthly update for August is published – Training Team Update – September 7th, 2026
   • 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/
   • Call for testing: WordPress community groups on events.WordPress.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/ – https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2026/08/28/call-for-testing-wordpress-community-groups-on-events-wordpress-org/

• 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 39 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 26 issues awaiting a fix

• Badges awarded:
  • No badges awarded this week

• Thanks to our colleague @piyopiyofox, the course AI Literacy through WordPress is now live on Learn WordPress!
• 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.

• No workshop scheduled

• 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.