Udemy: Free and Premium Online Courses for Learning WordPress

Udemy offers on-demand online courses covering a wide range of topics from software development to speed reading. Once you ‘enroll’ and become a member you are then able to pick and choose from the published courses and start learning at your own convenience, with unrestricted repeat access to the content. There are even mobile apps for learning on the go, with offline viewing capabilities for your tablet or smartphone.

How Does Udemy Work

Anyone is free to create their own courses at Udemy, which means there are countless topics you can learn about from the comfort of your own home. Signing up to become a student at Udemy is free, with optional one-click Facebook and Google Plus registration making the sign up process very straightforward.

The courses are grouped by category, with topics such as development, design, and marketing to name just a few. The prices of the courses are set by the instructors and can vary in price considerably. It’s not uncommon to find quality courses available for free or premium offerings where instructors have included a selection of free lectures to allow students to try before they buy.

Learn WordPress at Udemy

WordPress is well represented at Udemy with a good number of courses available. For those new to WordPress the popular and free Installing and Setting up WordPress the Easy Way and Getting Started with WordPress — A Beginners Guide are good places to start.

Anyone freelancing and offering their services to clients will appreciate the free Talking with Clients — Creating a WordPress Website 16 part course from designer Rob Cubbon, as it’s a great resource that features a real life dialogue between a web designer and their client.

Also for the freelancers out there, Rob has also created another free course covering a real life site build he carried out for a client. In the Creating a Business Website, you can learn all the steps involved from creating the mockup in Photoshop through to handing over the finished product to the client.

For more specific topics there are courses on successfully backing up and restoring your WordPress site, creating a multilingual website, and adding ecommerce functionality to WordPress.

More advanced users, or those with greater aspirations, should find the guide to developing and selling WordPress themes and the 28 hour complete web developer course of interest.

Want to Share Your Skills?

If you’ve got some WordPress knowledge and experience, from beginner to advanced, there is definitely room for more courses on Udemy covering WordPress.

While a lot of the existing WordPress content on Udemy gives a more general overview and guide to using the software as a whole, there is a lack of courses that drill down into the individual functionality, or cover the more technical aspects of WordPress.

With a ready-made platform and a growing audience, not to mention a generous profit sharing scheme, Udemy could be a great outlet for sharing your knowledge of WordPress or any topic at all.

Is Udemy Right for You?

While there are now a few solid options for learning how to use and get the most out of WordPress online, including WP Sessions and WebDesign.com, Udemy comes from a slightly different angle thanks to the wide range of authors publishing their content on the site.

This means you get the chance to experiment with a number of different presentation styles on a pay per course model, in order to find the one that works best for you. While the open access nature of Udemy does make it a bit more hit and miss than closed systems like Treehouse, it does also mean you never know what you might find when you sign up for your next free or premium course.

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