WordPress training · Beginner
WordPress training 101
In-person WordPress 101 for owners and new admins across the Niagara region. Pages, posts, blocks, media, and a monthly routine that keeps the site healthy.
October 22, 2026 St. Catharines, Niagara Region, Ontario Scheduled
Credentials
- WordPress training since 2007
- MA candidate, Learning and Technology, Royal Roads University
- WordPress.org plugin author
- 19 years on WordPress
Is this for you?
This is for you
- Fit: A team that publishes regularly and wants to stop second-guessing the editor
- Fit: A staff member who inherited the site and needs to understand what is going on
- Fit: Communicators, marketers, or program leads who own the content but not the code
- Fit: An organisation that wants its WordPress install run with the same care as the rest of the work
This is not for you
- Not a fit: Developers looking for an introduction to PHP or theme code
- Not a fit: Teams that need help with a different CMS (Drupal, Webflow, Squarespace)
- Not a fit: Anyone hoping this is a sales pitch for a specific plugin or theme — it is not
A classroom day is not the only way in. If that is not the right fit, the self-paced WordPress 101 course covers the same fundamentals at your own pace, and the full courses list shows everything currently available.
What we cover
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What WordPress actually is
About 60 minutes
- Core, themes, plugins — and which one is responsible when something looks wrong
- Posts vs pages vs custom post types in plain language
- Reading the dashboard without getting lost
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Publishing without breaking things
About 90 minutes
- The block editor — the moves that matter, the ones to leave alone
- Images that load fast and meet accessibility
- Drafts, scheduling, revisions, and how to recover what you thought you lost
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Site hygiene a non-developer can own
About 75 minutes
- Updates: which to run, which to wait on, which to call your developer for
- Comments, spam, and the one plugin that earns its keep
- A pre-publish checklist that fits on one page
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Trouble, and what to do about it
About 60 minutes
- The white-screen-of-death playbook
- Reading an error message without panicking
- When to ask for help and what to send so the answer comes back fast
What your team walks away with
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Publish with confidence
Your team writes, edits, and ships without checking with the developer for the basics.
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Spot trouble early
A red flag in the dashboard reads as something to act on, not something to ignore.
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Speak the same language
Plugin, theme, block, taxonomy — the words a developer uses now mean something to your team.
How to bring this training to your team
This training takes four shapes. Pick the one that fits your team.
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Onsite at your location
From $1,800 per day
I bring everything we need to your offices and run the day with up to eight learners. Most teams pick this when they want their people learning on their own machines, in their own setting, with their own example content.
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Open cohort (4+ team members)
From $325 per seat, four-seat minimum
If your team can commit four learners but not the full eight, I schedule the session and open the remaining seats to other Canadian teams on the same date. You get a fixed date, your seats confirmed, and a smaller per-seat investment. Same classroom, smaller cost share.
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Live online
From $1,200 per day
Same content as onsite, run as a live workshop over video. Better for teams spread across multiple offices, or where travel cost rules out an onsite day. Same eight-learner cap, same hands-on practice on each person's own site.
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Self-paced WordPress 101 course
$249, 180-day access
The same fundamentals at your own pace, on your own schedule. A fit for individuals, very small teams, and learners who do better with stop-and-rewind than with a live classroom day.
For audiences too large for any of these — conferences, association events, all-hands sessions — see speaking.
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