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WordPress Basics, free for students,
educators and nonprofits

51 lessons — about 209 minutes of training — free to watch. Every one performed on a real WordPress site, with a written version of each lesson beside the video, so you can follow along on your own site rather than watch someone else use theirs.

You’ll need a free account — an email address, nothing else. We never ask for payment details to watch the free lessons.

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What the free account opens

Not a sampler and not a countdown — these lessons stay free, and new Quick Fix lessons are free the day they land.

WordPress Fundamentals · Module 1

Getting Started

6 lessons

What WordPress is, logging in, the dashboard, the admin menu, your profile and the command palette. The orientation everything else assumes.

WordPress Fundamentals · Module 3

Content & the Block Editor

18 lessons

The block editor end to end — blocks, patterns, reusable layouts, the Query Loop. This is the module that gets someone editing pages confidently, and it's the one schools and nonprofits ask for by name.

Quick Fixes

Every Quick Fix lesson

6 lessons

Short, single-symptom answers to the things that break — the whole category is free, permanently, including every lesson added later.

Plugins

The free plugin library

7 full courses · 21 lessons

Complete, end-to-end courses on the individual plugins most sites run — backups, security, forms, SEO, caching. Free in full, not previews.

Free courses, in full

8 courses

Teaching a class, or training a staff?

The free lessons above are open to anyone, and you’re welcome to point students, members or volunteers straight at this page — no arrangement needed, and nothing to sign.

If you’re running an actual course or onboarding a team, tell us what you’re teaching and we’ll set up your group with the complete WordPress Fundamentals course — all 52 lessons — at no cost, on a shared roster with per-learner progress you can actually see. We do this for schools, public libraries, homeschool groups and nonprofits.

We’ve built and delivered WordPress training for the Library of Congress, the American Fisheries Society and the IBWA. Under-13 learners are welcome on a parent- or teacher-held account.

What membership adds

The free tier is 51 of the 79lessons published today. Here’s the rest of it — no upsell inside the free lessons, so you can ignore this until it’s useful.

The rest of the flagship

WordPress Fundamentals, complete

28 more lessons

Site settings, media, themes and appearance, plugins, users and roles, maintenance, and the going-further module.

Themes

Build a real site

6 courses

Astra, GeneratePress and Neve — foundations and full buildouts, each ending in a finished site rather than a tour of settings.

Plugins

The big three

42 lessons

WooCommerce, Fluent Forms and Tutor LMS — full-length courses, the ones that take a day rather than an hour.

Founding membership — $99

Two years of every published course, plus each new course and update the day it ships. One payment. Founding price for the first 100 members — 99 left, then $299.

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Straight answers

Do I need an account?
Yes — an email address. We send a sign-in link; there’s no password to invent and no payment details at any stage. The account is what saves your progress across devices.
Is it free, or free for a while?
Free. No trial period, no expiry, no card on file. The 51 lessons above stay open, and every Quick Fix lesson we publish later is free the day it lands.
Can I use these in a classroom or co-op?
Yes, including commercially-run tutoring and paid co-op classes. Link students to this page, or ask us for a group and we’ll open the complete course for your roster at no cost.
What about students under 13?
Have a parent or teacher hold the account. For groups we set the adult up as the account holder with the learners underneath, so no child creates a login themselves.
What version of WordPress is this?
WordPress 7.1. Lessons are re-recorded against each major release rather than captioned as out of date, so what’s on screen matches what a learner sees today.
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