Learn WordPress: Free Courses and Learning Pathways

Learn WordPress organises its material into learning pathways, which are designed to help people build skills progressively and move from beginner to advanced at their own pace. Three pathways are offered, covering site creation and management, working with the code, and design. Each pathway acts as an entry point for a different audience, from first-time site owners to developers extending the software.

• Start using WordPress – the basics of creating and managing a website
• Develop with WordPress – working in the code and extending the software
• Design with WordPress – design-focused material

Alongside the pathways, Learn WordPress publishes featured courses aimed at particular skill levels and roles. Lessons combine several formats, so that learners can watch, practise and test their understanding. The material spans user-facing topics as well as developer and theme development subjects.

• AI Literacy through WordPress
• Beginner WordPress Developer
• Beginner WordPress User
• Intermediate WordPress User
• Intermediate Theme Developer
• Videos, practical exercises, quizzes and text-based content

Learn WordPress sits within the wider WordPress project, the open source publishing platform that began in 2003 when the blogging software b2 was forked by Matt Mullenweg following discussions with Mike Little. The first version, WordPress 0.7, was released on 27 May 2003, and the project went on to introduce its plugin and theme systems, plugin repository and, later, the Gutenberg editor. WordPress.org records that the software passed the milestone of powering 40% of the web in 2021.

• Free access at learn.wordpress.org
• Published as part of the WordPress project