March 24, 2024 — Welcome to the GitHub onboarding session of the WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program!

This session is aimed at all attendees, and will give everyone a quick overview of GitHub. The goal is to help our attendees learn about GitHub and to guide them with the contributing process, especially since many of our contributor teams use GitHub.

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March 24, 2024

March 24, 2024 — Welcome to the onboarding session of BuddyPress. This short, onboarding video introduces participants to the BuddyPress Project and provides folks an overview of how to start contributing to the project.

March 18, 2024 — In this lesson, we’ll discuss backing up your valuable data. We’ll explore two methods: using your hosting company or a plugin.

March 18, 2024 — In this lesson, we will learn how and where to find help with WordPress when you need it the most.

March 18, 2024 — In this lesson, we will learn how to manage spam using WordPress’s built-in features or an anti-spam plugin.

March 14, 2024 — In this lesson we will explore the global settings and styles of a WordPress theme.

We will describe the purpose of a WordPress theme’s theme.json file, explore the JSON format and the structure of theme.json, and understand the hierarchy used for loading the setting and style configurations of a website.

March 14, 2024 — In this lesson we will explore templates used in WordPress themes.

We will describe what theme templates are and how WordPress handles the final markup for you, understand how the templating system works, list and describe the typical templates found within a theme, and differentiate between templates and template parts.

March 14, 2024 — In this lesson we will explore the main stylesheet file for WordPress themes.

We will create the style.css file header to configure data about the theme, describe the list of header fields available within a theme’s style.css file, and add the necessary header field to designate the parent theme’s folder in a child theme.

March 14, 2024 — In this lesson we will explore WordPress themes.

You will differentiate between a theme and a plugin; discover the possibilities of a WordPress theme; and explore the fundamental structure of a block, classic and hybrid theme.