Welcome to the Monthly Education Buzz Report, your go-to source for highlights and updates on the WordPress Campus Connect, WordPress Credits, and WordPress Student Club education initiatives within the WordPress community. This report aims to celebrate, promote, and inform individuals across the WordPress community and beyond about the diverse educational endeavors underway.

WordPress Campus Connect

WordPress Campus Connect (WPCC) had a busy July, with new campuses joining the program on four continents. If you would like to help shape one of these events, join the conversation in #campusconnect on the Make WordPress Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.

Bangladesh saw two more campuses join WPCC Kishoreganj 2026, organized by Muhibul Haque (@devmuhib). The first event, held at Kishoreganj University, brought speakers Nasim Miah (@muddassirnasim) and Mehraz Morshed (@mehrazmorshed) together with volunteer Mehrab Morshed (@mehrabmorshed). for a session on the WordPress ecosystem, careers, and open source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. contribution. Students there built 38 websites. Two weeks later, the series moved to Kishoreganj Polytechnic Institute, where speaker Shipon Karmakar (@shiponkarmakar) traveled more than 80 kilometers to join as a guest expert and students built nearly 70 websites. Across the two campuses, the success stories page now lists more than 200 participating students and over 100 published sites, with two more institutions, Government Mohila College and Pouromohila College Kishoreganj, still to come.

Japan held its second Campus Connect event of the year at Kyoto University of Advanced Science on July 4. The session was organized entirely by students from the campus’s Open Source circle, with Kaito Hanamori (@kaitohm) sharing the recap and thanking staff members Hiroshi Sato and Shohei Tanaka for their support.

In Spain, Josep Morán (@josepmoran) led a Campus Connect at Escola Pia Sta. Anna in Mataró for 100 higher-level vocational students studying network management and marketing. Over two four-hour sessions, students compared WordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ and WordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/, learned about WordPress Credits and WordPress Student Clubs, and used Playground and AI assistance to build a functional plugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. that calculates the best time for shore fishing in the city. Students and faculty alike called out the career opportunities tied to the WordPress ecosystem and the official certificate they received.

Uganda’s Central and Eastern Uganda schools series added Bulamogi College Gadumire on July 29, and the full recap is worth reading in full. Organizer Moses Cursor Ssebunya (@mosescursor) and his team lost power on arrival, so they scrapped the planned demonstrations and instead opened the floor to questions from more than 100 learners. Fellow organizer Stephen Dumba, national coordinator of the ICT Teachers Association of Uganda, stepped in to keep the group focused once the power went out. The room, in the organizers’ words, “exploded” with curiosity, and first-time volunteers Mariam Nairuba and John Wayera helped carry the day. The school’s governing body received a Certificate of Appreciation in return for hosting.

A few more campuses are moving through planning, including a first-ever event proposed for Penang, Malaysia, by Ben Leow (@surf7net) ahead of WordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Asia 2027, and an event at UVG Guatemala coordinated by Lidia Arroyo Vargas (@lidarroy). If you have a connection to a college or university and want to help bring WordPress to campus, the #campusconnect channel is the place to start.

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WordPress Credits kept building on its first-half momentum in July, with two new pilot projects, a call for a developer track, and a preview of what the program will bring to WordCamp US.

July was the strongest month of the year so far by several measures, according to an update from Maciej Pilarski (@gomp). Partner institutions grew from 28 to 38, up 10 in a single month and now spanning 16 countries, with 18 more institutions entering the pipeline, the strongest intake month of 2026. Active mentors Event Supporter (formerly Mentor) is someone who has already organised a WordCamp and has time to meet with their assigned mentee every 2 weeks, they talk over where they should be in their timeline, help them to identify their issues, and also identify solutions for their issues. reached 91, up from 83 in June, on the strength of 11 new mentor Event Supporter (formerly Mentor) is someone who has already organised a WordCamp and has time to meet with their assigned mentee every 2 weeks, they talk over where they should be in their timeline, help them to identify their issues, and also identify solutions for their issues. applications, while 62 new students started their WordPress Credits internship, the second-largest monthly intake of the year after May. Graduates reached 226, up from 199 in June, with 26 more students in pending graduation. Two applications that came out of the WordCamp Europe Education Table in Kraków, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in Finland and SAE Athens in Greece, are now confirmed partners, and Institut Teknologi Tangerang Selatan in Indonesia became the first Campus Connect host school to convert into a WordPress Credits partner institution, signing on July 20 after hosting a Campus Connect event on June 18. That signing also gave Indonesia its first spot on the partner map. Separately, CUNY City Tech signed on as the program’s first partnership with a public university system in the United States, arriving just ahead of the WordCamp US Contributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ push.

Rita Robles Loaiza (@roblesloaiza) shared the first two pilots she has been running as Program Manager Program Managers (formerly Super Deputies) are Program Supporters who can perform extra tasks on WordCamp.org like creating new sites and publishing WordCamps to the schedule. for WordPress Credits in Latin America. The first grew out of Patrones Hermosos, an international camp run by Tecnológico de Monterrey and MIT that came to Costa Rica for the first time this year. Three students from the second WordPress Credits cohort at Universidad Fidélitas designed and delivered a three-session WordPress workshop for 40 high school students, who each built and presented their own website by the end, with a 100 percent satisfaction rate. The team turned that experience into a fully replicable guide that any student, university, or local community can reuse. The second pilot brings Liceo Experimental Bilingüe José Figueres Ferrer, the first high school in the Americas to join WordPress Credits, into the Polyglots contribution area, where 13 students are working with the Costa Rican Spanish Polyglots team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ to localize WordPress.org into es_CR as part of their community service program.

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The program is also looking ahead to a developer-focused track. A US college has expressed interest in WordPress Credits but needs a path built around real, job-relevant development work, and the call for input is open now. The team is looking for ideas on what a beginner-to-advanced tier structure could include, with the first tier needed by the end of August to keep the pilot on schedule. You can weigh in through the GitHub issue or in #wpcredits on Slack.

Looking toward WordCamp US, the Education working group announced a dedicated table at Contributor Day on August 16 in Phoenix. Isotta Peira (@peiraisotta) and Maciej Pilarski (@gomp) will be on hand throughout the event to talk through WordPress Credits, Campus Connect, Student Clubs, Faculty Training, and the new AI Literacy through WordPress course on Learn WordPress. The group is looking for US-based mentors, connections to local meetups Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. for students, introductions to colleges and universities, and companies interested in sponsoring the programs.

July also brought a steady flow of new students into the program, joining from Nepal, Costa Rica, Spain, India, and the US, including a professor at Drew University in New Jersey who found the program through a WP Tavern Jukebox episode featuring Ivana Ćirković. Among them, Víctor Rodríguez of Universidad Fidélitas in Costa Rica wrapped up his internship with the Polyglots team, submitting 386 translation suggestions for WooCommerce in Spanish (Costa Rica) and documenting his progress along the way. Anne McCarthy (@annezazu), the WordPress 7.1 release lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release., kept up her behind-the-scenes updates for students so they can shadow the release process firsthand.

WordPress Student Clubs

A Student Club at Ahmad’s Education in Dhaka, Bangladesh, used its weekly session to dig into how WordPress works as an open source project, discussing how the platform has grown through the contributions of millions of people and how club members can start contributing themselves. Organizer Atikur Rahman shared that the group is now preparing for an upcoming WordPress Campus Connect event at the same institution, with members working to bring in more classmates and build on the momentum from the discussion.

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