February 26, 2024 — Compatibility is often indicated with labels like “works with Gutenberg” or “Gutenberg ready.” However, these labels often only mean the product can function with it. It’s essential to fully embrace and use the new features to enhance the quality of your interface and workflow.

What does it mean to embrace the new phases of WordPress as a product? Specifically, how can you take advantage of them now and in the future? In this talk, I will share steps and offer insights into how to embrace the changes.

February 23, 2024 — The WordPress Training Team helps people learn to use, extend, and contribute to WordPress through learn.wordpress.org. Within this team exists the Faculty Program

The Faculty Program consists of a team of dedicated volunteers who work to achieve the goals of the Training Team and Learn WordPress. You can read the initial proposal for this program here.

Key for Faculty Roles:

A: Administrator
CC: Content Creator
E: Editor
SME: Subject Matter Expert
TC: Translation Coordinator
In this session we will explain what the Faculty Program is, the rules that can be occupied, and answer any questions current or prospective Faculty Members have about the program.

Affiliated links:
https://make.wordpress.org/training/
https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/getting-started/
https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/faculty-program/

Presentation Slides »

February 21, 2024 — In this lesson, we will explore the different WordPress user roles. Knowing the differences is important as it will help you protect your site and ensure that your team of editors and contributors are informed about their abilities and the part they play.

February 21, 2024 — This lesson will cover how you can use headings correctly across your website’s posts and pages for readability, accessibility, and SEO purposes.

February 20, 2024 — For this week’s livestream, I enabled Xdebug and started digging into an opened REST API ticket. Once I’d figured out what the reported bug was, and more importantly, why it exists, I logged my findings to the ticket and asked the core REST API team for feedback.

February 20, 2024 — Jonny is Head of Design & UX at Big Bite and has worked on several enterprise websites for clients such as The Times, Wall Street Journal, Gumtree, V&A, and Octopus Group. In this talk, we will take a behind-the-scenes look at how enterprise brands are utilising WordPress.

February 20, 2024 — In August last year I took on a new challenge, acting chief of staff to the CTO at GitLab. In this talk I share the lessons I learned from working alongside leadership, how I applied them to my regular role, and how you can too.

February 16, 2024 — This workshop will highlight areas of the WordPress dashboard and the documentation area to find answers and information about each of the dashboard parts.

February 16, 2024 — The Make WordPress Training team are stewards of Learn.WordPress.org – the official education website for WordPress. The Learn WordPress website is currently in the process of a revamp and will launch with clearer structure, design, and pathways to learn from in July 2024. There’s never been a more exciting time to get involved with the WordPress Training Team and have a strong impact on the WordPress community!

In this workshop, team rep Ben will introduce attendees to the Training Team, and its five areas of contribution. Participants will learn what it means to be a Content Creator, Editor, Content Translator, Subject Matter Expert, and Administrator, for the team. Participants will leave with a clear understanding of what they can do next to contribute to the Training Team and its goals.

February 15, 2024 — This lesson will cover ten tips you could implement to improve your SEO rankings. SEO is essential if you want your website to rank higher in search engine results.