Monthly video meetings for the Make WordPress Training team: actionable discussion, concrete task assignment, and onboarding new contributors.
The Office Hours are a one-hour video call on Zoom, once a month. This is where the team discusses bigger, cross-cutting questions: what needs to change and how. Each session has a topic announced in advance, and there is room for your own questions as well. Whatever is agreed on becomes an issue in the WordPress/Learn repository and is published in the recap on make.wordpress.org/training.
Who can join? Everyone. No registration and no prior experience needed. You'll find the Zoom link in the #training Slack channel. Questions about content in your language or about your local group are explicitly welcome.
What if no one in the room can help? We note the question and pass it on to the right person. You leave with a name you can reach out to.
Who moderates? Anyone on the team; you don't need to be a Team Representative. The moderator gives everyone the floor, proposes three topics in the weekly Tuesday meeting, and announces the chosen one. If you'd like to moderate, let us know in #training. As moderator, you get access to the team's Zoom account through the TT-Admins (@tt-admins in #training).
When is the next session? Date, time (UTC), topic, moderator, and Zoom link are posted in #training on the Monday before each session.
What doesn't belong here? Going through individual issues, unless they belong to the current topic. That is the job of the TT-Admins meeting.
Read the full proposal: docs/proposal.md Published on the Make WordPress Training blog: Proposal post – February 3, 2026
This is a temporary pilot repository. It was created to organize and document the Office Hours format during its pilot phase, which started in April 2026 and is still running. An end date for the pilot has not been set yet. Keeping the pilot work in a separate space allows the format to be tested and refined without affecting the official Training Team infrastructure.
If the team decides to continue Office Hours after the pilot evaluation, the plan is to:
- Propose the process guide (
handbook/Organizing Office Hours Meetings.md) as a new page in the Make WordPress Training Handbook. - Submit the proposed changes to existing handbook pages for review by Team Reps and Admins.
- Transfer this repository and its issue history into the official Training Team structures at github.com/WordPress/Learn.
- Archive or close this repository once the transfer is complete.
Until then, this repository is the canonical reference for the Office Hours process. The handbook documents in /handbook/ reflect the process as it currently stands during the pilot phase.
wpt-office-hours/
├── README.md ← This file
├── CONTRIBUTING.md ← How to propose topics, get involved
├── LICENSE ← CC BY-SA 4.0
├── docs/
│ └── proposal.md ← Full proposal with community feedback
├── handbook/
│ ├── Organizing Office Hours Meetings.md ← Process guide (draft handbook page)
│ ├── Proposed Changes to Existing Handbook Pages.md ← Proposed updates to existing handbook pages
│ └── README.md ← Directory Overview
├── templates/
│ ├── agenda.md ← Reference template for meeting agendas
│ └── meeting-notes.md ← Reference template for meeting notes
└── .github/ ← GitHub configuration (workflows, templates, security)
├── PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md ← PR Template
└── ISSUE_TEMPLATE/
├── config.yml ← Issue Config
├── document-correction.md ← Correction Template
└── topic-proposal.md ← Topic Proposal Template
The date of the next Office Hours meeting is listed on the Make WordPress Training homepage under Office Hours.
Date, time (UTC), topic, moderator, and Zoom link are posted in the #training Slack channel on the Monday before each meeting. Past meeting recaps are published as blog posts on make.wordpress.org/training.
Have a topic suggestion? Open a Topic Proposal issue – no GitHub experience needed.
All proposed topics are tracked on the Project Kanban Board.
- The moderator creates the meeting agenda as a GitHub issue in WordPress/Learn at least 48 hours before the meeting
- After the meeting, the note-taker posts the draft notes as a comment on the agenda issue
- Participants have ~48 hours to suggest corrections by commenting on the issue
- Once approved, notes are published as a blog post on make.wordpress.org/training
The /handbook directory contains working documents that support the integration of Office Hours into the Make WordPress Training Handbook:
See handbook/README.md for more details.
See CONTRIBUTING.md – no coding skills required. New to GitHub? There's a beginner-friendly section there too.
These Office Hours complement the work done on Learn WordPress – the platform the Training team builds and maintains. Meeting discussions often feed directly into new learning materials and contributor workflows.
The Office Hours are also a great entry point if you're attending a WordCamp or Contributor Day and want to get involved with the Training team.
Participation time is tracked via the Five for the Future program when you use the correct Slack tags at meeting start and end (see docs/proposal.md for details).
- Make WordPress Training Handbook
- Learn WordPress
- WordPress Community Code of Conduct
- Five for the Future
- WordPress Slack – join
#training
All participation is governed by the WordPress Community Code of Conduct and the Mozilla Community Participation Guidelines.
This repository is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, consistent with Make WordPress community content.
- Slack:
#trainingon WordPress Slack - Organizer: @rfluethi