WordPress: Create a Website or Blog

Hands-on Training from Experts NYC or Live Online

Learn how to create and maintain a website using WordPress, even if you have no web design background or coding experience. This comprehensive course will cover everything from installing WordPress to customizing themes and optimizing your site for search engines.

All sessions are full. Contact us to be added to the waiting list.

  • Free retake
  • Setup assistance
  • Expert instructors
  • Small classes

Anyone Can Make a Website with WordPress

WordPress enables you to create and maintain a website, even if you have no web design background or knowledge of the code that makes website works. Whether you want to create a new website/blog or manage an existing WordPress website, this class is for you. This course is geared for anyone, so you do not need prior experience with computer graphics or coding.

40% of all websites are made with WordPress because it provides loads of functionality and the ability to create themes (templates) to control the look and feel and functionality of a website. In this class you’ll learn how to create pages, edit content, and see how you (or the people you make websites for) will interact with WordPress when creating and editing content.

Are You a Web Designer or Developer?

If you’re a web developer who wants to learn this as well as how to take more control over WordPress using code, you should look at our WordPress Bootcamp.

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Highly Reviewed by Our Alumni

From our hands-on training style to world-class instructors and custom-crafted curriculum, we deliver results our alumni are proud of.

WordPress: Create a Website or Blog is rated 4.9 stars

in the past 24 months

5-star across the board! Absolutely amazing course! Very informative and learned so much in just a day’s course. Highly recommend!

Jaclyn Herzog

Loved the WordPress class. I learned so much in one day. Dan makes it all very clear and explains everything above and beyond. I'm so excited to start using WordPress with my clients!

Victoria Greiss

Scott was an excellent teacher. He provided a clear and easy-to-understand overview of WordPress, and gave me the confidence needed to update my website. Highly recommend this class and this teacher.

Lisa Kaplowitz

Scott was very well-spoken, informative, and gracious with numerous questions and requests to repeat portions of the lesson. Also brilliantly explained complex concepts when it came to topics that may have been beyond the scope of this course.

Jenève Dubé
Kraus Marketing

Great first stepping stone for someone with little to no experience in WordPress. You'll leave the class with the ability to get your own simple site or blog up and running in no time.

Kathleen Estes

Scott very clear and very articulate with the information he transmitted to the class. He took time to wait for the class to ask questions and answered with great description. He's an excellent instructor.

Carlos Borges
American Express

Well worth the time. I was able to learn very quickly on a topic I had no prior knowledge.

Beau Daum
Pzena Investment Management

Perfect class to begin your experience with WordPress!

Nestor Castano

I have taken many courses here before and have recommended the school highly to friends and associates. I love that the instructors are all so knowledgeable about their subjects. The private PCs and Macs are a huge plus for me(many schools only offer online or you must bring your own laptop); they are fully-loaded and help the learning process immensely. Every instructor here is patient, thorough, and makes sure you have a full comprehension of the subject. This is the only computer learning school I attend in NYC.

Stacey Brody

Dan is an excellent instructor, logical and clear presentation. It felt really secure to be learning at the right pace. Also allowed for individual differences in experience and questions. I made a list of six questions, all about places I have been stuck, and Dan helped me with ALL of them. I can't wait to get back to work on my clients' websites. This was $$$s worth of new knowledge! Thank you!

Camilla Golden
camilart.com

Dan was informative and thorough.

Kerri M.

I think the class was very informative and I think it will be very useful. I will recommend the class to others who are interested in learning about WordPress. Dan was a great instructor. He had a great grasp of the topic and was very easy to follow.

Benedict B.

The WordPress class is a must-take for anyone learning web design. Lasha explains everything very thoroughly and goes above and beyond to detail every step. I highly recommend this class.

Victoria Greiss

Schedule & Enrollment: WordPress: Create a Website or Blog

  • 12 Hours
  • $695
  • NYC or Live Online
  • Free retake
  • Setup assistance
  • Expert instructors
  • Small classes

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Free Resources

WordPress is a popular CMS (Content Management System), originally created to host blog content. Today, many companies use WordPress to build and host custom websites, that include a company blog. BBC News, TechCrunch, and The New Yorker are just a few brands that use WordPress to host their blog.

For the average consumer, most people use WordPress.com, a website that you can log into to create and manage your website. For $300 annually, WordPress.com will host a completely custom website for your brand. However, developers have access to additional tools.

Through WordPress.org, developers can download the free, open-source WordPress software to create custom WordPress websites that are easily managed via the powerful WordPress CMS. With WordPress.org, a developer can create a custom WordPress theme, and host it on their private server free of charge. The client can then manage the website through the WordPress CMS without knowing any code.

With WordPress, you can create powerful websites that host the following features:

  • Add images, links, and videos to pages or blog posts
  • Install themes to create a uniform appearance across your site
  • Use WordPress plugins to add interactive functionality without code

Individuals with basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and PHP can create their own custom WordPress themes and install content via a local server. You can also customize the WordPress interface to add custom fields and a navigation panel on your website.

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Create a Website or Blog in WordPress

WordPress
  • WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) that lets you create & manage a website or blog.
  • It’s popular for blogging, but you can build websites that don’t even have a blog.
  • Over 30% of all websites use WordPress (and growing).
  • Without having to know code, you can manage content (text, images, etc.). That’s why it’s called a content management system (CMS). Learn how to build a website or blog in our WordPress: Create a Website or Blog class.
  • Coders make themes to control the look of the site. Learn how to edit and code custom WordPress themes in our WordPress: Build Custom Themes class.
WordPress Blog versus Site
  • WordPress is popular for blogging, but you can build websites that don’t even have a blog!
  • Using WordPress as a content management system (CMS), you can manage content (text, images, etc.) without having to know web coding. Your content can be posts in a blog, or regular web pages. While WordPress is great for blogging, but you can have an entire WordPress site that does not even have a blog. What you put our a WordPress site is completely up to you!
  • Learn more in our class WordPress: Create a Website or Blog.
WordPress Themes
  • WordPress themes control the look and feel of a WordPress site.
  • You can install a WordPress theme made by someone else (free or paid), or code your own.
  • If you don’t know code, you can customize some aspects of the layout & appearance of a WordPress site, but there are limitations.
  • Coders create WordPress themes using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, & PHP. Learn how to edit and code custom WordPress themes in our WordPress: Build Custom Themes class.
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