WordPress Training for Beginners and Beyond

WordPress is available for free and is one of the most popular platforms that non-developers use to create a website, although you still need to pay for web hosting. So how long does it take to learn WordPress? Unlike HTML and CSS, it won’t take long to become a competent WordPress user.

In SEO Design Chicago’s WordPress training, you will learn how to install WordPress, how to configure it for SEO, how to design a WordPress theme, how to create an e-commerce website, WordPress hosting, and how to publish your posts. Our experts will teach you everything you need to know in order to use the open-source content management system. Our WordPress experts available for you!

MASTER WORDPRESS BASIC SKILLS

The first step in our training is teaching you all the necessary skills you will need in order to master the CMS so you can design your own website, add your own images, and more.

PUBLISH YOUR OWN CONTENT

In our WordPress tutorial, you will learn how to publish your own content to your website or blog, including multimedia, like photos and videos. You will also learn how to use one of the many available contact form plugins. One your have learned how WordPress works, there is no more needing a web developer to post for you!

INTEGRATE SEO TOOLS

We can teach you how to integrate SEO tools into your website so that you can beat your competitors in the search engine results pages. Even if you don’t have prior SEO knowledge, we can teach you the basics.

SET UP AN ONLINE SHOP

If you are interested in e-commerce options, we can teach you how to set up a shop on your WordPress website. Selling products and services online is a lot easier than you may realize!

NO CODING NECESSARY

If you don’t have previous experience with coding and website development, don’t worry. We can still teach you how to use WordPress. There are no prerequisites necessary for WordPress development and a WordPress powered website can look just as professional as one created by a developer.

BUILD YOUR SKILLS

Whatever it may be that you want to do with WordPress, we can help you. Our training is completely customizable and personalized to your own needs! We will work with your schedule.

GET WORDPRESS TRAINING FOR YOURSELF OR YOUR COMPANY

INDIVIDUAL FORMAT

SEO Design Chicago’s WordPress training courses are no ordinary online class. Instead, they are completely personalized to you and your needs. You will not waste unnecessary time on skills you don’t need.

WE TEACH EVERYONE

Whether you are brand-new to building a website, or if you have had a WordPress website for a while but would like to learn more about how to use some of its more advanced features, you are welcome to train with us.

LEARN FROM EXPERTS

You will be learning from SEO Design Chicago’s expert web developers, who have more than a decade of experience and teaching their hard-earned knowledge to others. We are up-to-date on the latest updates and tech for WordPress.

What will I learn in SEO Design Chicago’s WordPress training?

In our WordPress training courses, you will learn how to build and publish your own blog posts and web pages, how to do basic customization, how to integrate SEO, and how to promote your posts on social media using the content management system. However, our digital marketing trainings are completely customizable to your needs! You tell us what you want to learn, and we’ll teach you.

What can I do with WordPress?

  • Blog: You can use WordPress to create a blog, which is an certain kind of website centered around sharing your writing, photos, reviews, recipes, or anything else on your mind! Typically, a blog shows the most recent content at the top.
  • E-Commerce Website: WordPress also allows you to create an e-commerce website, from which you can sell products and services. This will require you to download a plugin, which we will teach you how to do in our training. With the right plugins, WordPress works very well for e-commerce.
  • Company Website: Many companies use WordPress for their website. We can teach you how to build a website for your company using WordPress.
  • Membership Website: A membership website is a website that only allows members to see its content with an account and a password. Users typically must pay for the content. We can teach you how to add plugins to WordPress to create a membership website.
  • Portfolio Website: A portfolio website is like a resume on steroids. For example, if you are a photographer, you can use a portfolio website to show off your photos, or if you are an artist, you can use it to show off your work. You can even combine it with an e-commerce website to sell your work/
  • Forum: You can use WordPress to create a forum, which is a platform for users to ask questions and interact with each other.
  • Event Website: If you are planning an event, you can use WordPress to post the details of your event and even sell tickets online.
  • Digital Learning Website: Now that digital learning is so popular, you can use WordPress to create your own digital learning website for students to take classes, download resources, turn in assignments, and more.
  • Wedding Website: WordPress offers several themes just for weddings so you can design a website to showcase all the details of your special day.

Why Should I Use WordPress?

  • Easy to Use: How long does it take to learn WordPress? Unlike HTML and CSS, once you learn the basics of how to use WordPress in our training, it is actually quite simple to use. You can post content and build your website quickly that looks like it was created by expert page builders, even if you are a beginner.
  • Free: The WordPress software is free to download from WordPress.org. (However, you will need to pay for a domain name and website hosting.)
  • Versatility: WordPress allows you to create all different kinds of websites and to customize each of those websites for your needs.
  • Open-Source Software: WordPress is open-source software, which means that it is not owned by any single company or entity. Developers and users all over work together to improve the software. This keeps it free, accountable, and constantly improving.
  • No Prerequisites Necessary: If you use Microsoft Word or Google Docs on a regular basis, you will have no problem learning how to use WordPress.
  • No Coding Necessary: No website coding experience? No problem. There is no need to know code in order to use WordPress to create a website.
  • Plugins Available: There are a variety of WordPress plugins available for you to add to your website to add more features, like e-commerce, SEO, backup forms, and more.
  • Several Theme Options: WordPress offers several themes that you can use to design and lay out your website. You can design your site however you like, and if you want to change it, you can do so easily. WordPress development is versatile and free.
  • Security: There is no such thing as a completely impenetrable website. However, WordPress is extremely safe overall. Its safety is also improving every day. You can feel secure with a WordPress website.
  • Community Help: WordPress has a huge community of users and developers. It’s easy to find WP help, plus, WordPress offers meetups, WordCamps, and more!

Contact Us

If you are ready to get started with SEO Design Chicago’s WordPress training, contact us today.

FAQs about Trainings

What is the best way to learn WordPress?

It is best to learn WordPress from an expert. Our customized trainings are the best way to learn how to use WordPress because it is tailored specifically for you, your busy schedule, and what you are looking to accomplish with your training. We will listen to your needs and train you accordingly!

The amount of time it will take for you to learn WordPress depends on how much experience you have. We can tailor the length of your training to your needs!

There is no experience necessary for our WordPress training. Whether you are a complete beginner, or more of an amateur who is hoping to learn the latest tricks, we can help train you in the CMS!

The WordPress platform is free! You might need a scaled-up paid version, depending on your needs, however.

In our opinion, WordPress is the best website builder available. (It’s what we use for our own website!)

SEO Design Chicago offers various types of digital marketing training, including Google Analytics training, GA4 training, Facebook Ads Manager training, Bing Ads training, Google Ads training, Content Creation Strategy training, and Google Tag Manager training.

You might be able to teach yourself some aspects of WordPress, but SEO Design Chicago’s professional web developers can teach you all of their tricks and shortcuts so you can use the CMS more efficiently and effectively.

Say goodbye to your webmaster! Learning WordPress gives you the control of running your own website, no web developer needed. (At least not on a day-to-day business.)


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