Final Report – WP Credits

1. Introduction

Hello everyone! I’m Francisco Alexandru Babei, and this is my final report for the WP Credits course. Throughout this course I have been building and maintaining a WordPress blog while contributing to the open-source WordPress community. This report summarizes my contributions, the challenges I faced, and the skills I gained during the process.

2. Teams and Projects I Contributed To

I contributed to the Polyglots Team, which is responsible for translating WordPress plugins and themes into different languages. My focus was on translating strings for the Stackable plugin, completing a total of more than 190 translations. This work helps make WordPress tools accessible to Spanish-speaking users around the world.

3. Learning Resources

Throughout the course I relied on the official WordPress documentation and the hands-on experience of working directly with the block editor and its underlying code. I received guidance from my mentors Isota and Diego Gallego Cristóbal Colón, who helped me navigate both the technical and community aspects of contributing to WordPress.

4. Challenges and Solutions

The main challenge I faced was adapting to the WordPress development workflow, which combines a visual block editor with direct code editing. At first it was difficult to understand how both approaches interact, since changes made visually generate block markup that sometimes behaves differently depending on the context. Over time I learned to use both tools together effectively, using the visual editor for initial structure and the code editor for fine-tuned adjustments.

5. My Contributions

My contributions during this course include the design and development of this blog, structured across 8 posts documenting each stage of the process, as well as the translation work carried out for the Stackable plugin through the Polyglots platform. Screenshots of the translation work are available in the previous posts of this blog.

6. Key Learnings

The WP Credits course gave me a practical understanding of how WordPress works both as a content management system and as an open-source project sustained by its community. The key takeaways for me were understanding the block editor at a code level, learning how to contribute to a global translation team, and seeing firsthand how open-source collaboration works in a real project.

7. New Skills Gained

On the technical side, I improved my understanding of WordPress block markup, page structure, and template parts. I also became comfortable working with the Polyglots translation platform. On the soft skills side, I developed better attention to detail when reviewing content and gained experience working within an organized open-source community workflow.

8. Personal Reflections

This course has been a valuable introduction to the world of open-source contribution. I was pleasantly surprised by how approachable the WordPress community is and how meaningful even small contributions like translations can be at a global scale. Moving forward I plan to continue exploring WordPress development and stay connected with the Polyglots community.