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Christopher Ross

WordPress 101: Take control of your site

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You logged into the dashboard once, felt something cold turn over, and closed the laptop. Most of the people I teach didn’t choose WordPress®. They inherited it: from a co-founder who left, an agency that disappeared, a board member who built the first site in 2015 and then moved on.

This course is for the person who now owns that site and has to keep it running. It’s written for the inheritor, not the developer, with no jargon or coding required, and it covers four self-paced modules on the dashboard, the Block Editor, image and plugin hygiene, and the monthly maintenance routine that keeps the site healthy. By the end you’ll be the person who keeps this site running, and you’ll know exactly what to ask for the next time something needs a professional.

What you’ll get

Here’s what’s in the course. Take what you need from it and come back to the rest when something on your site sends you looking.

  • 34 lessons across 4 modules, about 4 hours of work, paced so you can do one module per sitting or one lesson per coffee
  • A short video and a written version of every lesson, so you use whichever fits your brain
  • 5 knowledge-check quizzes that lock the lessons in
  • A printable monthly maintenance checklist you’ll actually run
  • A completion certificate you can share
  • A 30-day check-in email from me asking how it went
  • Access that’s good for a year

Who’s teaching you

I’ve been on the open web since 1996 and have worked in WordPress since 2007. I lead the M.L. Campbell Training Centre, have spoken at more than 18 WordCamps, and have published 21 plugins to the WordPress.org directory.

Most of what I teach in this course comes from rescue calls. I’ve inherited more broken sites than I’ve built from scratch, and the patterns repeat: someone overwhelmed, a dashboard nobody documented, a Media Library full of duplicates, an SEO plugin nobody set up. The lessons here are the answers I’ve given the same way enough times that I wrote them down.

The 1:1 follow-up call

Enrollment includes 20 minutes of my time, one-on-one, bookable within 90 days of completion. Bring one specific question, one decision you’re weighing, or one thing on your site that isn’t working the way you want. No pitch. No upsell. That call alone costs $92 at my regular rate. It’s included.

Try a lesson first

Lesson 1.1 is free, no account required. Try it first, then decide. Open the free lesson.

This is not a developer course. If you want to write PHP or build custom blocks, you’re in the wrong place.

Modules

Settings and Maintenance

Lessons