June 2, 2024 — Learn.WordPress.org (Learn WordPress) is the WordPress project’s official learning platform. There, you’ll find hundreds of WordPress-related education resources, including live Online Workshops conducted every week!

Online Workshops are free interactive learning sessions that anyone can attend. These are conducted by vetted facilitators, who are often assisted by vetted co-hosts. Anyone can apply to facilitate or co-host an Online Workshop and the WordPress Training Team is excited to help you get involved!

If you’re interested in facilitating or co-hosting Online Workshops for the WordPress Training Team, then this workshop is for you! Come join Ben as he walks through the process of facilitating and co-hosting an Online Workshop. You’ll get an overview of the vetting process, and also a behind-the-scenes view into how facilitators and co-hosts prepare for an Online Workshop.

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May 30, 2024 — In this lesson, we’ll explore vital website templates and how to set up your homepage display efficiently.

May 30, 2024 — This lesson will teach us about domains and the Domain Name System (DNS). You’ll learn what a domain is and how DNS records function to connect your domain name with your hosting provider’s IP address. We’ll guide you through editing DNS settings and explain the concept of DNS propagation, including how long it typically takes for changes to take effect.

May 30, 2024

May 30, 2024 — Are you interested in helping people learn how to use, design, or develop with WordPress – but not sure where to get started?

The WordPress.org Training team’s Guide Program is a nifty pathway geared to helping folks take their first steps toward contributing, by matching experienced team members with new contributors. Over the course of about a month, each Guide helps a new contributor begin contributing to the Training team, in whatever area most interests them, whether it’s translating content, creating video lessons, running an online workshop, or taking notes at a weekly team meeting.

During this informal Q&A with Training team members Sumit Singh and Muhibul Haque, you’ll learn how the Guide program works, why it’s so rewarding – both for the Guide and the new contributor – and why it might be just the thing you’ve been looking for to help you get more involved with the WordPress project.

May 28, 2024 — WordPress Playground offers a powerful way to experiment with WordPress environments instantaneously. In this session, we dove into the world of WordPress Playground blueprints, exploring how they can be used to create dynamic, disposable WordPress instances.

We started with a brief overview of WordPress Playground, ensuring you have a solid understanding of its capabilities. Then, we looked at the details of blueprint creation and usage, providing hands-on examples and practical tips. When watching the recording, you will learn how to:

– Set up your first Playground environment.
– Create custom blueprints that include specific plugins, themes, and content.
– Use blueprints for testing, which includes enabling experimental features in Gutenberg.
– Use WP-CLI commands with Playground to add posts and attachments.
– Leverage blueprints for teaching and demonstrations.
– And much more!

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May 26, 2024 — Optimizing images is an easy way to improve the performance of your WordPress website without requiring any coding skills! In this session, we’ll talk about:

– What is image optimization, and why do we need it?
– How can you optimize your images?
– Tips, methods, and tools.

May 24, 2024 — WordPress provides a number of hooks that allow plugins to “hook into” the functionality of WordPress.

Your theme should support these hooks, to allow plugins developers to extend your theme.

Let’s look at what this entails.

May 24, 2024 — When developing a WordPress theme, it’s useful to consider whether you will need a build process to help you manage your theme’s assets and optimize your theme for performance. Let’s look at how this might be possible, using the @wordpress/scripts package.

May 24, 2024 — Theme developers often use JavaScript to provide interactivity, animation, or other enhancements to their themes. This lesson will cover some best practices to follow when using JavaScript during theme development.