Whether you’re building your very first website, starting a blog, or looking to improve your site’s visibility, WordPress.com offers a growing library of free courses to help you every step of the way.
Our goal is simple: to give you the knowledge and confidence to bring your ideas online — with clear and practical guidance.
Explore Our Courses
We currently offer three self-paced courses:
Create Your Website on WordPress.com (video course)
Perfect for anyone launching a new website, whether it’s for a small business, portfolio, or personal project. This course walks you through choosing a theme, setting up your homepage, editing your header and footer, adding essential content, and preparing to launch.
- Self-guided
- Step-by-step
- No registration required
- Bite-sized video lessons
- Go at your own pace
Create Your Blog on WordPress.com (video course)
Ready to share your thoughts with the world? Whether you’re launching a niche blog, starting a personal journal, or building your online presence, this video course will guide you through every stage. You’ll learn how to:
- Choose a theme that matches your style
- Write and format your first blog post
- Organize your content using categories and tags
- Customize your blog’s layout and navigation
- Engage with readers and grow your audience
Introduction to SEO (text-based course)
If you want more people to discover your site through search engines, this text-based course is for you. The learning objectives for this course are:
- Understand how search engines find and rank your site
- Identify and use keywords that match what your audience is searching for
- Structure your content with headings, internal links, and media to make it easier to read and easier to find
- Use tools like Jetpack Stats and Google Search Console to monitor performance and make improvements
In today’s crowded internet, good SEO helps you stand out from competitors and connect with your target audience. Higher search rankings lead to more visitors, increased engagement, and potentially more conversions for your business or cause.
Lifelong learning
We know that learning how to use a website platform can feel overwhelming at first. These courses are designed to give you a clear path forward, one step at a time. You can learn at your own pace, explore the features that interest you, and skip the ones you know.
Each course is built for independent learning and hands-on discovery so you stay in control the whole way through.
Who Will Benefit Most?
These courses are ideal for:
- Beginners who are just getting started with WordPress
- Small business owners building a web presence
- Creators and bloggers looking to grow their audience
What’s Next?
We’re always looking to expand our course selection to support users’ WordPress journey better. What course would you like to see next? Share your suggestions in the comments!
Start Learning Today
All our courses are free and available now. Whether you’re building, blogging, or growing, we’re here to help you along the way.
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Big thank you because I am not a techie. Will check these out!
Great to know. Thank you.
You asked for ideas on what to teach. I am asking if you will teach this.
I want to know how to type a code so that my sidebar does not space rows 1 inch apart. I need rows to be only 1/4 inch apart.
In other words, I want to learn how to write codes which I think you call CSS codes and what things can be adjusted with the codes.
Thanks for sharing this idea. A course on customizing with CSS could definitely be helpful for many users. In the meantime, our guides on CSS give an overview of what’s possible. For specific adjustments to your site, our support team is always available to help.
Thanks for sharing!
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Has anyone set up a new website and had success?
Hi Alex, I can confirm that several users have completed our survey and mentioned that they were able to finish their sites after following the course.
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This is amazing! Love how the courses are self-paced and beginner-friendly. Can’t wait to dive into the SEO course and sharpen my skills. Thanks for making learning so accessible!
Thank You for sharing, very useful information.
I am new to WordPress and absolutely appreciate the effort that has gone into these courses. From a beginner user, thank you I am excited to learn from these courses.
Thank you for sharing your feedback. I hope these courses prove valuable as you work toward your goals.
I appreciate these free courses and intend to start real soon.
Great! Please let us know how it goes.
Thanks Wes for answering my question.