As a result:
This course is only available as a private booking for an individual or group.
Our private courses can run online, in-person at your offices or at one of our training centres.
Please contact us for full details.
This introduction course is for people who have never used WordPress before.
Develop your WordPress skills on this advanced course
We offer reductions for group bookings (up to 40%) and if you book more than one course at the same time.
Please contact us for more details.
Learn how professional WordPress developers build websites.
Great pace and well explained!
Becky Simcock, A J Mobility Business ICT Systems , Support ManagerGreat set up and good explanation. Good to be able to work on pc alongside trainer.
Paula Dalton, Trade Direct Insurance Personal AssistantSeeing how a site can be built.
Charlotte Allen, Mole Valley DistrictI liked the mix of demonstrations and practical exercises.
Sally Horsburgh, Senior Communications and Marketing OfficerLearnt lots, Great to be able to do it hands-on on the computer not just watch and learn.
Claire Dee, Communications DirectorThe practical nature of the session which allowed you to try everything as it was explained.
Gail Mackintosh, Senior Communications and Marketing OfficerBeing the only candidate, we were able to focus specifically on my particular knowledge requirements.
Elaine Luck, Operations ManagerDirections
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Looking for a private WordPress training course?
Our custom WordPress courses are organised on dates to suit you, and delivered live online, at your office or ours whichever you’d prefer.
Our free pre-course reviews ensure that custom courses focus on the exact topics that you need to cover.
Everything you need for a great day's training
A full-colour WordPress manual to keep 
A USB stick so that you can take files home
Pens, pads and everything you'll need to take notes
Plenty of tea, coffee and biscuits
6 months of support post the course in case you get stuck
A modern comfortable air-conditioned training room
We provide everything that you will need for a fun, productive day of training.
Everyone has their own computer to work on in a comfortable, bright, air-conditioned room.
We provide plenty of tea, coffee & biscuits, and a USB stick so that you can take files home with you.
We provide 6 months of post-course support as well.
If you get stuck on anything relating to the course simply get in touch and explain the issue.
We will make sure your trainer contacts you as soon as possible to help you out.
We don’t want to be the biggest training company but we are trying to be the best.
We have now won the Feefo Gold Award for customer service for 7 years in a row.
We always limit our classes to a maximum of 8 delegates but try to keep them smaller. During 2019 our average WordPress class was 3 people.
To back up our promise of great training we offer a 100% money-back guarantee.
Our focus is on you being a faster, more capable WordPress user when you return to work.
Our courses combine traditional teaching to explain new concepts and tools with lots of hands-on exercises.
The exercises ensure that you get plenty of time to try out what you have just been taught and make sure that you really understand it.
We also make sure that there is plenty of time for you to ask questions in case there is anything you are unsure of.
Please arrive dressed in any comfortable clothing, most people arrive in casual clothes.
We provide everyone who completes one of our courses with a certificate of attendance.
We provide 6 months of post-course support.
If you get stuck on something that was covered during your course, simply get in touch with us as we’ll organise for your trainer to get in touch as soon as possible.
If you are comfortable using WordPress and making small edits our intermediate WordPress course may well be the right one for you.
Please take a look at what is covered in our introduction to WordPress training course.
If you are confident that you understand what is covered in that course then you should book our intermediate WordPress course.
Yes, our WordPress beginners training course was designed specifically for people who have never used WordPress before.
You only need to be a comfortable computer and web user to attend it.
We will use whatever the most up to date version of WordPress is when you learn WordPress with us.
At the time of writing (Q1 2021) the most recent, stable version of WordPress is Simone.
If you would like to see a full listing of WordPress versions please see this webpage which documents all WordPress versions.
WordPress is an incredible free website builder and content management system.
It allows experts to create very large, complex sites.
It is relatively straightforward to get started with WordPress. If you are comfortable using programs like Microsoft Word and Excel you will be fine.
The question is how far do you want to take it.
If you want to create a large international site you will need to spend some time learning a number of advanced skills and potentially learning to edit it’s open source code.
If you would just like to create a small, hobby WordPress site you can probably learn how to do that in a day or so.
A WordPress theme is a template at heard.
A WordPress theme will determine the overall look of your WordPress site. This is everything from your colour scheme to how the individual elements on your page (buttons etc) will be presented.
A WordPress plugin is a small application that you ‘plugin’ to your site.
When you download a plugin it will be inserted into your site’s code and add to your sites funcationality.
There are plugins for almost every conceivable purposes including managing and improving your site security, setting up an online business, managing your WordPress users etc.
Installing the basic WordPress software onto a hosting server takes about 15 minutes once you know-how and have a domain name. Many hosting providers will provide this already set up for you so you may not even need to do this. This article explains how.
However, that is only the start of creating a site that search engines and users will enjoy using.
WordPress is the world’s most popular website builder.
Over 40% of the world’s websites use WordPress.
Given it is so popular it benefits from lots of WordPress themes, online courses and video tutorials being available to help you to learn how to use WordPress.
