This week’s meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 15th, 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
   • Oct 6th – @makanikaran
   • Oct 13th – @alkesh7
   • Oct 20th – @softglaze
2. Looking for feedback
   • Team Homepage: @clk87 has shared A block-based prototype for the Training Team homepage to make team pages more engaging and newcomer-friendly. Feedback is welcome via GitHub Issue #3674.
   • Office Hours: The next Office Hours will be held on a weekday, avoiding Monday and Friday. The proposed dates are October 27, 28, or 29, 2026, you will be informed when the date is set and confirmed.
   • Text-to-Speech: The team discussed exploring text-to-speech/read-aloud functionality for course lessons. @softglazee has created prototypes, and the team is encouraged to provide feedback before implementation discussions 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.
   • Training Team Handbook: The handbook is currently being updated, and team members are encouraged to share suggestions, improvements, and ideas in GitHub Issue #3447.
   • 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: @mebo has revived the Learning Pathway course and started working on modules and lessons. Team members are invited to review the new content and share feedback, including the “Rendering plugin data” lesson.
3. Looking for volunteers
   • Content Review Volunteers: Volunteers are needed to review and identify content that should be updated or consolidated. Two groups are needed: one for the handbook and one for courses.
   • Lesson Thumbnails: Work has started on creating thumbnails for lessons that need them. Team members are welcome to contribute to the remaining thumbnails through GitHub Issue #3428.
   • Issue Cleanup: The team discussed organising the many open issues into smaller categories and reviewing them systematically.
     • Review Workflow: The proposed process is to review issues one by one, identify outdated or irrelevant items, suggest next steps, and add comments before closing or updating issues.
       • Good First Issues: Contributors can start with issues labeled Good First Issue, especially those related to content feedback, and follow the handbook guide for validating feedback.
       • Issue Categories: The team discussed starting with a specific category The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging., with Bug issues suggested as a priority. Other options include Needs Translation Reviewer, Unlabeled, Awaiting Triage, and Content Feedback.
       • Next Steps: Team members are encouraged to suggest which category should be reviewed first, after which the issues can be divided among contributors.
     • Goal: Work together to clean up and keep the repository organised.
4. Updates from last week’s Triage Squad session
   • No triage squad meetings last week
5. Other announcements and news
   • Office Hours Recap: The September 26, 2026 Office Hours session was successfully hosted, moderated by @vasantrajput, and the recap post has been published. Thanks to @rfluethi for preparing the draft.
   • Monthly Update: The Training Team’s September 2026 monthly update has been published.
   • Community & Slack: The team shared the guide on 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 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 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.

• 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.