WordPress Website Development
Learn to design, build, and manage a professional website with WordPress — no coding experience required.
Course overview
WordPress powers a huge share of the websites on the internet, from personal blogs to full online stores — and you can build a genuinely professional site on it without writing a line of code.
This course takes you from an empty domain to a finished, working website: hosting and installation, the dashboard, themes and page builders, the plugins actually worth installing, and the SEO and security basics that keep a site running well after launch.
By the end, you'll be able to plan, build, and maintain a real WordPress site — for yourself, a client, or a small business — and know where to look when something breaks.
Learning objectives
By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- Set up hosting, a domain, and a fresh WordPress installation
- Navigate the WordPress dashboard confidently
- Choose, install, and customise a theme using a page builder
- Select and configure the plugins a typical site actually needs
- Create and organise pages, posts, and navigation menus
- Apply on-page SEO basics and add a working contact form
- Set up a basic online store with WooCommerce
- Keep a site secure, backed up, and performing well
Complete syllabus
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1. Introduction to WordPress and Website Basics
What WordPress is, WordPress.com vs. self-hosted WordPress.org, and how a website is actually put together.
2. Setting Up Hosting, Domains, and Installation
Choosing hosting, registering a domain, and installing WordPress — step by step.
3. Understanding the WordPress Dashboard
A guided tour of every menu in the dashboard, so nothing feels unfamiliar afterwards.
4. Themes: Installing, Customizing, and Page Builders
Choosing a theme, using a page builder to design layouts, and customising colours, fonts, and branding.
5. Plugins: Must-Haves and How to Choose Them
The handful of plugin categories every site needs, and how to evaluate one before installing it.
6. Creating Pages, Posts, and Menus
Building out your site's structure: pages vs. posts, categories, and navigation menus.
7. Working with Media, Forms, and SEO Basics
Optimising images, adding a working contact form, and the on-page SEO settings that matter most.
8. E-commerce with WooCommerce (Intro)
Setting up a basic online store: products, payments, and checkout, using WooCommerce.
9. Website Security, Backups, and Performance
Keeping WordPress updated, backed up, and fast — the unglamorous work that prevents disasters.
10. Practical Projects and Final Assessment
Build a complete site in the capstone project, then take the final quiz to unlock your certificate.
Required skills & prerequisites
- No coding experience required
- Comfortable using a web browser and everyday apps
- A plan for what kind of site you want to build (blog, business, portfolio, or store)
- Access to register a domain and hosting is helpful, but not required to follow along
Tools & technologies
Practical projects
Site structure plan
Plan the pages, menus, and content structure for a real site idea before building anything.
Themed landing page
Build a fully styled homepage using a page builder, matching a simple brand colour and font scheme.
Contact and lead-capture setup
Add a working contact form and connect it so submissions actually reach an inbox.
Capstone: complete website
Combine everything into a finished multi-page site, ready to show in a portfolio or hand to a client.
Instructor
The AI Tutor Team
Course design & AI tutoring
This course was built by the same team behind AI Tutor's step-by-step tutoring approach. Every module is paired with an AI tutor you can question directly — describe what you're stuck on in the dashboard and get a click-by-click answer.
Frequently asked questions
No. This course uses page builders and the standard WordPress dashboard throughout — no HTML, CSS, or PHP required.
Not right away — modules 1–2 explain what to look for, so you can follow the early lessons first and set up hosting when you reach module 2.
Work through the modules, then pass the short final quiz on this page (70% or higher). Your certificate becomes available to download immediately.
Yes — every module links to the AI Tutor chat, pre-set to the WordPress subject, so you can ask follow-up questions any time.
No — module 8 is a self-contained introduction. Skip it if you're building a blog, portfolio, or business site without a shop.
Final quiz & certificate
Score 70% or higher to unlock your certificate. You can retake the quiz as many times as you like.
1. What's the key difference between WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress.org?
2. In WordPress, the main difference between a Page and a Post is:
3. What is a plugin in WordPress?
4. WooCommerce is primarily used to:
5. Which of these is a genuinely important, non-optional security practice?
6. On-page SEO basics include:
Ready to start WordPress Website Development?
Free to start. Enroll, then jump straight into module one.