Add details about discussion groups in workshop pages

[timiwahalahti]

As per the discussion in Community Team blog.

On a single workshop page, add a small blurb on top of the "Join a Discussion Group" button explaining what is a discussion group. Below the button could be a small text, much like the CoC notice, saying that if there’s no scheduled discussion group for this workshop, apply to be a discussion group leader to run one.

This needs copy and the new "Become a Discussion Group Leader" page being created before fully implementing.

[coreymckrill]

Putting this on hold until the "Become a Discussion Group Leader" page is ready.

[hlashbrooke]

Here's a page for that: https://learn.wordpress.org/facilitate-a-discussion-group/

[coreymckrill]

I think adding another text blurb to the sidebar of every workshop would get kind of messy and distracting. What if the "Join a Group Discussion" button linked to a dedicated page that explained everything and then linked out to the meetup group, and then additionally had all the info about becoming a facilitator?

[hlashbrooke]

Fair point yeah.

I think it would be good if we could update that discussion group page to have information about discussion groups at the top, then a block showing the upcoming discussion groups, followed by the form as it stands now.

@coreymckrill Is that 'upcoming discussion groups' block ou made for the home page a block that we could just insert here too? Or is it exclusively tied to the homepage template?

[timiwahalahti]

Agree with Corey.

I can work with the copy for that page.

[coreymckrill]

Is that 'upcoming discussion groups' block ou made for the home page a block that we could just insert here too? Or is it exclusively tied to the homepage template?

Right now it's just hard coded into the front page template, but we could make a block for it too.

[hlashbrooke]

This is looking great on the homepage! If you're able to make it a block/shortcode then that would be great, but it's not essential if that will be too much to work on here.

[coreymckrill]

#163 is a draft PR for adding a block, but it's probably not going to get done before the launch, so I'm going to remove this issue from that milestone.

[hlashbrooke]

Works for me - this is lower priority than the other launch items.

[hlashbrooke]

We have renamed 'discussion groups' to 'social learning spaces' and have a dedicated page for them here: https://learn.wordpress.org/social-learning/ - the copy being discussed in this issue will need to be added there, so I'm going to close this issue as that won't be a code change.

#265 updates the button text and link to the new page.