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WordPress courses for beginners.

All my courses are created for people who are new to WordPress, or who are looking to refresh their existing skills. If you’re getting back into the saddle, taking on the responsibility of maintaining a WordPress site, or trying to learn how to use WordPress for the first time… these courses are for you.


2025

Build and Manage a WordPress Multisite

Launch a multisite built with WordPress. Manage a multisite, including keeping it updated, adding new content, and managing users. Add a new WordPress website to an existing multisite installation.


2024

WordPress Essentials

Get started setting up a blank WordPress environment. Learn how to add content with pages and posts, as well as how to find and manage plugins and themes. Explore ways to make your site secure and optimize your site management experience over time. After watching this course, you can feel confident in starting to build a website with WordPress.


2025

WordPress Staging Sites

Learn why, how, and when to use a staging site. The course focuses on two main topics: use of staging sites when building/preparing to launch a site, and staging sites during the lifetime of the website. Learn how to build in a staging site, how to create a staging environment using a few different methods, and the benefits of utilizing a staging environment as you update and maintain your website.



2023

Everything About Plugins

Learn what a plugin is, where you can find plugins, how plugins work in the WordPress file structure, how to start working with plugins, including how to install them, how to deactivate and remove plugins, and how to safely update and maintain plugins.


2023

Build an Ecommerce Website with WordPress

Learn the pros and cons of WordPress for ecommerce, explore some misconceptions, examine options for domain and hosting. Discover how you can set up easy digital downloads. Cover ecommerce WordPress themes, essential pages, accessibility and SEO issues, email marketing tools, analytics tools, and social media tools.


2025

Build a Secure WordPress Site

Learn best practices to protect your site from WordPress vulnerabilities, discover tools to secure WordPress user accounts and login screens, find best practices for making backups, as well as tools for setting up a WordPress firewall. Conclude with steps you can take to make your ecommerce site and your WordPress files more secure.