WordPress now powers 27.5% of the Internet. It’s growing tremendously and its helpful community is one of its biggest assets going forward. And the culture of giving back to this community makes it more awesome for any users wanting to learn and use WordPress. We tried to compile a list of tutorials that will guide new users toward WordPress awesomeness and learn WordPress for free.

1. WordPress Beginner Videos
WPBeginner WordPress Tutorial

Free WordPress basics tutorial by popular WordPress blog WPBeginner. These videos will teach you how to use WordPress. These videos were made for their enterprise client to reduce support tickets, but later they were made available for everyone.

Registration Required: Yes
Format: Video
Total Videos: 17
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes approximately

2. WordPress Website Step By Step Training

WordPress Step-by-Step
The effort Katrina put in to create tutorials for WordPress users is quite amazing. You’ll find lots of her great tutorials on how to create a WordPress website from scratch all over the Internet. WordPress Website Step By Step Training seems quite extraordinary because the way she describes the whole process seems quite easy.

Registration Required: No
Format: Video
Total Videos: 40
Duration: 4 hours approximately

3. A Beginners Guide To Using WordPress

WordPress Tutorial by Adi Purdila
A free tuts+ course by developer Adi Purdila. The 4-part tutorial consisting of 21 videos will teach you how to use WordPress. You will learn all the WordPress basics from installation to managing a WordPress website.

Registration Required: Yes
Format: Video
Total Videos: 21
Duration: 2 hours approximately

4. LevelUpTuts WordPress Basics
LevelUp Tuts WordPress Tutorial

LevelUpTuts has free tutorials for anything you can think of related to web development. Developer Scott Tolinski releases a new tutorial almost every week. His WordPress Basics tutorial covers everything anyone wants to know about using WordPress, so it’s a great tutorial for WordPress beginners. LevelUpTuts has created a followup tutorial on Customizing WordPress for intermediate users.

Registration Required: No
Format: Video
Total Videos: 21
Duration: 2 hours approximately

5. WordPress Basics: How To Manage Your Website

WordPress Tutorial Seth Leonard
A step-by-step video tutorial on using and managing a WordPress-installed website. It’s a good course for new users who want a clear explanation of every feature. This Udemy course, taught by Seth Leonard, is currently free and you will get a Certificate of Completion.

Registration Required: Yes
Format: Video
Total Videos: 12
Duration: 1.5 hours

6. Getting Started With WordPress – A Beginners Guide

WordPress Beginners Guide - Jerad Hill
A Udemy course by developer Jerad Hill, this WordPress course is appropriate for people who have WordPress installed, but haven’t figured out yet how to get the most out of it. This tutorial is quite big in terms of length, but it’s worth watching. It has a section on WooCommerce, which is enough to help you set up an online store or eCommerce store all by yourself.

Registration Required: Yes
Format: Video
Total Videos: 61
Duration: 6 hours

7. WordPress Getting Started Tutorial

WordPress Tutorial CloudAccess
A WordPress tutorial created for new users by hosting provider CloudAccess. They created this video tutorial for helping new users launch and develop WordPress sites.

Registration Required: No
Format: Video
Total Videos: 14
Duration: 1 hour approximately

8. Beginner’s Guide to WordPress
WordPress Tutorial WPforAll

A free WordPress tutorial on how to use and manage WordPress by WPForALL. Besides WordPress basics they have a video tutorial on SEO bundled with this series.

Registration Required: Yes
Format: Video
Total Videos: 50
Duration: 4 hours approximately

9. WordPress 101


WP 101- iThemes
A tutorial by iThemes to get users acquainted with the WordPress platform. Videos are quite old compared to the other tutorials mentioned here, but still, it’s good for understanding WordPress basics.

Registration Required: No
Format: Video
Total Videos: 24
Duration: 1 hour approximately

10. WordPress Video Tutorials

WordPress Tutorial SiteGround
Detailed video guides created by hosting provider SiteGround for WordPress users. Its precise tutorial is helpful for anyone who has just heard the name of WordPress but this tutorial is not a series or course like others mentioned in this article.

Registration Required: No
Format: Video
Total Videos: 12
Duration: 1 hour approximately

11. The WordPress Beginner Tutorial Class

WordPress video tutorials for beginners who are new to WordPress content management system.  This free detailed step by step video tutorials are created by OSTraining with the help of GoDaddy. Open source software education organization OSTraining teamed up with WordPress Developer Topher DeRosia to film this course. It covers the whole process from installing WordPress, creating post/page, embedding content from other sites, installing themes, plugins, backup WordPress and everything you need to know to run a website using WordPress.

Registration Required: No
Format: Video
Total Videos: 40
Duration: 3 hour approximately

Beside this 11 there are lots of video tutorials can be found on YouTube. But we’ve made a list of courses like tutorials for new WordPress users. If you want to stay updated about recent WordPress trends, check out our post about WordPress podcasts that will turn you into a WordPress ninja. Do you know any other useful free video tutorials that we missed. Let us know in the comments.

Towhid
Towhid is a Web developer & HubSpot certified Inbound Marketer. Co-founder of WPD and CMO at Optimizer WP. Love all things Football and very interested in how WordPress will change the industry.

3 Responses

  • Another super helpful article – thanks (again) for taking the time to put this together, and to connect to such helpful resources… now to choose one, or two, or three, that will be the best match for my clients and I 🙂

  • 9 years ago

    This is a great assortment of different resources. I’ve been collecting sites and videos for our users. We do some videos ourselves, but it’s nice to have options, especially when different users and companies are better at certain skills.

  • Alexander
    6 years ago

    Hey Towhid, You have mentioned great tutorials for learning WordPress. My best source for learning WordPress is https://www.wpblog.com

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