October 9, 2025 — Are you ready to explore how WordPress is transforming education worldwide? Join us for an exciting session on WordPress Campus Connect, the innovative event series that brings WordPress directly to educational institutions around the globe.

In this session, you’ll dive into what makes Campus Connect a game-changer for students and educators alike. Discover the impact it has already made and learn how you can play a vital role in its success.

Whether you’re interested in organizing, sponsoring, or simply supporting these dynamic events, there’s a place for you.

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October 9, 2025 — Are you ready to explore how WordPress is transforming education worldwide? Join us for an exciting session on WordPress Campus Connect, the innovative event series that brings WordPress directly to educational institutions around the globe.

In this session, you’ll dive into what makes Campus Connect a game-changer for students and educators alike. Discover the impact it has already made and learn how you can play a vital role in its success.

Whether you’re interested in organizing, sponsoring, or simply supporting these dynamic events, there’s a place for you.

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September 3, 2025 — Join us for an insightful session on WordPress Campus Connect, an exciting new event series designed to bring WordPress directly to educational institutions. This session will provide an overview of the program’s progress so far, highlighting the impact on campuses and the engagement with students and faculty. The session will also feature a dynamic panel discussion with WordPress Campus Connect organizers and students, offering firsthand perspectives on the program’s influence and its potential to foster a deeper understanding and use of WordPress within academic environments. Attendees will gain valuable insights into how these events are bridging the gap between education and open source technology, creating opportunities for innovation and collaboration in the campus setting.

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/

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October 13, 2023 — Join us for an insightful panel discussion on BlackPress, a global WordPress community dedicated to empowering Black individuals worldwide.

Learn about the origins, objectives, and impact of this transformative initiative as we explore the significance of amplifying Black voices within the WordPress ecosystem. Discover why BlackPress emerged, addressing the underrepresentation and limited opportunities experienced by Black individuals in the digital space. Gain insights on how YOU can actively engage and contribute to this flourishing community.

Whether you’re from the Black diaspora or an ally, we invite you to participate, collaborate, and uplift Black voices through mentorship, open-source projects, networking, and showcasing achievements.

December 22, 2022 — As of this event posting there are 190 Block Themes in the WordPress.org library. As WordPress advances to a more code-less (as in no need to use code) future, the ability to create and design themes is being made simpler and more accessible.

In this session we will explore how to create your very own theme using the Create Block Theme plugin.

Target Audience
Intermediate WordPress users– folks who are familiar with the Site Editor and using Blocks and Block Themes.

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December 15, 2022 — With the recent release of WordPress 6.1, Site Editor templates have become even easier to make more your own– unlocking more creativity and flexibility with how your post pages are displayed to the world.

In Exploring Category Templates and the Query Loop Block we will look at how to create Template pages for specific posts on the site, create a custom design for each template, and walk through editing the query loop block to display the posts differently on each template.

Target Audience
Intermediate WordPress users– folks who are familiar with the Site Editor Template system and Blocks.

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November 22, 2022 — In this session we will discuss the beta Gutenberg plugin, it’s role as WordPress’s “block editor”, and its project that follows a four-phase process that will touch major pieces of WordPress — Editing, Customization, Collaboration, and Multilingual.

Following the introduction of post block editing in December 2018, Gutenberg later introduced full site editing (FSE) in 2021, which shipped with WordPress 5.9 in early 2022.

We will also use a local WordPress environment to explore some of the beta capabilities only accessible once the Gutenberg plugin is installed.

Target Audience
Folks who manage their WordPress sites and are comfortable with the installation, management and use of plugins.

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November 17, 2022 — WordPress 6.1, Misha, was released on November 1st, 2022 and is jam-packed with many new and exciting features inclusive of:

– Twenty Twenty-Three theme and variations
– New templates
– Better design tools
– Easier menu management
more

In this session we are going to unpack and do a live exploration of some major features which have been released in WordPress 6.1.

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October 21, 2022 — Ever wondered what all of the out of the box WordPress roles were and how to use their capabilities across the site? Wonder no more! This is a foundational WordPress discussion where we will talk through the various roles in WordPress and the capabilities each possess.

Target Audience
Beginners, but anyone can benefit!

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