What is the Fastest Way to Learn WordPress?

Whether for fun or your career, you can learn WordPress easily and quickly. How fast you learn WordPress will depend on the type of class you take or the resource you use as well as what you’re looking to learn or do with your WordPress skills. Read on to learn about some of the quickest ways to learn WordPress. 

Consider What You Want to Do With WordPress

For those who want a place to share their thoughts, projects, or interests with others, you can set up a WordPress blog quickly by using WordPress’s free or paid themes and plugins. This is something you can do in a matter of hours. Starting with creating an account on WordPress.com, you can play around with the platform on your own to figure out how to post content, attach images, videos, and text, and apply themes to add a unique touch and professional look to your blog. 

Noble Desktop’s free Intro to WordPress seminar is a quick way to learn more about the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, how to begin with WordPress from the point of installation, and learn about important features of WordPress and how to start using and customizing them. You can also look to free resources, on-demand classes, or online or in-person bootcamps to get you started with WordPress quickly, as discussed in the following section.

If you’re looking to learn more advanced ways to create and customize themes and plugins for your own website or as a career, that is going to take more time, effort, and knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Once you have experience and knowledge of programming basics, you can still learn WordPress in a relatively short time, like a number of hours or several days. Even more comprehensive and practice-based WordPress classes can be completed in a matter of days or weeks, depending on how much time you have to devote to learning WordPress. 

Fastest Ways to Learn WordPress

This section details some of the quickest ways to learn WordPress and start creating websites of your own. Consider not only the cost but what you want to get out of a specific resource. Are you interested in learning the basics? Check out free resources. Do you want to learn everything about WordPress at once? Take a bootcamp or on-demand class. Alternatively, do you want comprehensive training geared toward preparing you for a specific career using WordPress? You might want to look at enrolling in a certificate program. Continue reading to learn about these different options and what you should consider as you start learning WordPress.

Free Resources

You can use free resources to learn WordPress basics quickly. WordPress, YouTube, and different online education providers offer a variety of free resources including step-by-step guides, video lectures, and online tutorials to help you quickly get started using WordPress. You can find both no-coding-necessary resources as well as more advanced resources for those with coding experience and knowledge. While there are entire on-demand courses available for free online, these might take more time to complete than if you use singular targeted free resources to get started right away. 

Free resources are not recommended as the only way to learn WordPress. When you only rely on free materials, you run into issues of accuracy and potential for confusion and frustration. There are a variety of free materials out there, but some of what you find might be out-of-date as WordPress has updated its own software or as others have developed new and better ways to rewrite WordPress’s code for efficiency and functionality. Additionally, most of what you will find for free does not come with any way to ask questions. You will not usually be able to ask free material providers for further clarification or for help troubleshooting an issue you run into as you get started using WordPress. 

To learn WordPress quickly and to feel secure in your knowledge of the software and ability to utilize it, consider taking an in-person or live online instructor-led class. You can then additionally turn to free resources for supplementary examples or use them to continue to build on your WordPress skillset. 

Bootcamps 

Bootcamps are one of the fastest ways to learn WordPress comprehensively. A bootcamp is a class focused narrowly on teaching a specific skill or covering one topic, often over a condensed time period. You should expect to learn everything from basics to advanced WordPress skills in just a few intensive days or a couple of weeks, depending on the course curriculum and schedule. Bootcamps are the best option for those looking to learn WordPress quickly and who also want a structured, guided learning experience. 

If you want to gain the skills and knowledge to use WordPress but have a hard time motivating yourself to learn from tutorials and lecture videos or want to learn from an expert instructor who can provide you with the latest techniques, you should consider taking a WordPress bootcamp. Though over an accelerated timeline, many bootcamps will still offer practice and hands-on projects for you to undertake, similar to a regular classroom experience. In comparison to using free resources, cost is an obvious difference. Bootcamps can be costly, so make sure that the bootcamp is right for you and comes from a legitimate training provider with proven success. 

On-Demand Classes

On-demand classes are those that provide you access to course material (such as video lectures, readings, practice workbooks, quizzes, etc.) and let you go through it at your own pace. Rather than meeting with other students or an instructor, you can work your way through the material when and where you want to. On-demand classes can be much more cost-effective than bootcamps and certificate programs, though they will not give you access to a live instructor or individualized feedback on your skills practice. You can find comprehensive WordPress on-demand classes that teach basic to advanced skills and even incorporate learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (though be aware that the more skills you add, the longer it will take you to complete the course). There are many more options of WordPress classes you can take on-demand, so you will find a greater variety of shorter classes targeted towards using WordPress for digital marketing, for instance, building ecommerce websites, or incorporating AI into WordPress. This makes on-demand classes a great option for supplemental education once you have a solid foundation for your WordPress skills.

Overall, because on-demand classes can be taken at your own speed, it will depend on how quickly you want or can move through the material. You can use on-demand classes to learn WordPress quickly, but many turn to on-demand classes to be able to slow the pace of learning, practice skills on their own while rewatching and reviewing video lectures, and pick up or put down the course content as their schedule dictates. A short on-demand course, in other words, can take a long time to complete for those who can only devote short bursts of time to taking the course. 

Certificate Programs

Certificate programs will likely be the “slowest” way to learn WordPress. These are comprehensive training programs intended to provide proficiency in the knowledge and skills of a particular profession. Most certificate programs take weeks or even months to complete because they aim to cover a wider variety of material than shorter, more targeted classes. You can often learn WordPress as a part of a larger web development or web design certificate program, given that WordPress is one of the most popular ways to create and manage websites. Certificate programs are a great option to learn a comprehensive skill set, practice these skills through hands-on training, and become fully prepared to enter into your career upon completion. 

While months can seem like a long time to learn something, consider that these programs are still much quicker ways to learn career-oriented skills than a traditional four-year college or university program of study. If you are aiming to gain competency in the knowledge, techniques, strategies, and tools of your intended professional, weeks to months is still a relatively short amount of time, overall. 

Learn WordPress Skills with Noble Desktop

Noble Desktop offers a variety of affordable in-person and live online classes for those looking to learn WordPress quickly. A great bootcamp option is Noble Desktop’s 18-hour, 3-day WordPress Bootcamp. Knowledge of HTML and CSS is a prerequisite to taking this bootcamp as it is designed for those who want not only an introduction to WordPress but who want to learn more advanced and specialized ways to code and develop customized WordPress websites and themes. This prerequisite can be fulfilled by taking Noble’s Web Development with HMTL & CSS class or equivalent knowledge and training in HTML and CSS. Students taking this bootcamp can expect to receive expert instruction and hands-on guidance as they learn the ins and outs of WordPress from installing WordPress, publishing posts, adding text, images, and video, and utilizing themes and plugins, to learning about more advanced customization options, downloading WordPress onto your computer, and creating your own custom theme for WordPress. 

Additionally, you can consider taking a longer, more comprehensive certificate program to learn multiple skill sets and tools throughout one class. The WordPress Bootcamp is included as part of two useful certificate programs offered by Noble Desktop, the Front-End Web Development Certificate and the Web Design Certificate. Both certificate programs are geared towards teaching WordPress website development and are for those looking to follow career pathways to become Web Developers, Web Designers, or WordPress Developers. 

Front-end web development focuses on coding the part of a website or application that users will see and interact with and this is usually the part of web development that you’ll need to know to become a WordPress Developer. The Front End Web Development Certificate offers hands-on training from experts and taking this program will provide all of the skills necessary to learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for front end web development and WordPress website creation. Noble Desktop is currently offering the Front End Web Development Certificate with a 4-week full-time option or a part-time evening option that can be taken over 4 months. 

The Web Design Certificate will be more useful if you are interested in not only learning to code, for WordPress and other websites, but also learning important principles of design and getting hands-on experience creating clickable prototypes of websites to add to your portfolio. You can take this certificate program at Noble Desktop full-time over 6 weeks or part-time during evenings over 5 months. 

Additionally, if you take Noble Desktop’s Full-Stack Web Developer Certificate, you will have the option to add on the WordPress Bootcamp at the end for no additional cost. This program is especially useful for those who want to become well-rounded Web Developers and are interested in knowing not only how to program the part of a website users see and interact with (the front end) but also the infrastructure behind the front-facing website (the back end). The Full-Stack Web Developer Certificate is currently being offered for 17 weeks of full-time instruction on weekdays or with a part-time option for evenings that will take 10 months to complete.