Learn WordPress Fast from a U.S. based expert! This entire site was built using WordPress. Whether you want to use WordPress for your personal or business purposes, you’ve come to the right place.
These online WordPress tutoring sessions are geared towards beginners and for those who have no previous experience with WordPress. Let's get you up and running on your own. Learn to build your own site, insert forms, create landing pages and more. Training sessions from Jon are 100% virtual & online, scheduled at your convenience.
I’m a creative freelancer based out of the U.S. (near the Rocky Mountains). I have worked for companies & agencies of all different sizes, from big name brands such as Microsoft to smaller niche companies serving their local communities.
I’ve been building WordPress sites for about 6 years now, the first site I ever built was terrible but I’ve continued to improve and learn new software and strategies to help create WordPress sites.
If you didn’t know it by now, you’re on my site…welcome! I’m a big fan of building sites that incorporate video, small animations, and as things progress, data analytics.
This site was built using WordPress (of course) and hosted via Bluehost. The theme used is the “Hello” theme by Elementor. I always recommend starting with you end goals and reverse-engineering to make the most of your time and learning experience. Throughout the lessons we will either build your site or use mine as a demo to reference.
“My favorite kind of sites to build are creative ones that implement small icons and animations”
Whether you want to start a blog, build your own portfolio site, or create an informational-business site, I’d be glad to help you step-by-step. My goal is to get you setup with the basics of WordPress and speed up the learning curve.
Jon uses a combination of video, images and screensharing software. Don’t worry, no faces will be visible in the duration of your lessons so you can stay in your sweatpants and sip coffee as you learn from the comfort of your home, office, or cafe.
Lessons typically use the free software “Zoom” to help make learning go faster. Feel free to check them out here: Zoom.us
We’ll start with these 8 core components and move on from there. During the free intro session (no contracts required), we will go over your goals in order to further expedite your learning.
If you want to choose your own URL, website name, you'll need web hosting.
Wordpress themes come in a variety of versions, these affect the site's design.
Have a site that inspires you or you like the style of? Let's start by recreating it.
Visitors want to get in to contact with you! Let's build out a contact form for emails.
We'll start by using one of the most powerful page builders to create.
Wordpress plugins can save you tons of time without knowing how to code.
Blogs are great sources of information for your site and to keep visitors updated.
Here we'll focus on the navigation and structure of your site so exploring is easy.
Below are four advanced modules that can be tackled once the basics have been covered. These advanced options are all geared to help optimize your site and make it stand out within your industry.
Using one of the most powerful and fast page builders, Elementor, we will begin to explore just how easy building with WordPress is.
Integrate WordPress plugins for custom forms, social media feeds embedded on your site and more. Tailored to your goals.
Start incorporating Google Software onto your site to learn more about your visitors and popular pages.
Start incorporating Google Software onto your site to learn more about your visitors and popular pages.
Like learning any new skill, there’s a bit of a learning curve. BUT don’t let this discourage you as the basics are easy to grasp and no coding is required.
The time required to learn WordPress stems from the what and specifics that you’d like to create. You could spend days, weeks, even years going through every free WordPress pdf or course on the internet but this might drive you crazy with the amount of time spent piecing information together.
No! You do not need to know how to use any custom coding in order to use WordPress. Once you’ve mastered the basics you can, if you feel inclined to, add custom CSS or animations to the site but there is absolutely no need to start off in the deep end.
If you’re digging around the internet for individual answers, it could take you months to find the “perfect” theme (which doesn’t exist by the way) or the perfect banner image.
OR..you could spend an hour with a friendly online tutor that helps to pair the visual components of WordPress with the information needed to create your project.
Absolutely! WordPress is one of the largest CMS (Content Management Systems) that is available and free online. The small price tag for WordPress sites come when you start using Premium Themes (which are a scam) or custom domain names/URLs for your site.
These are relatively cheap however, hosting plans starting from roughly $3/month – less than a cup of coffee.
The hosting provider that I use and recommend is called Bluehost. They typically have some sort of new user bundled deal which I recommend checking out, regardless of how you learn to use WordPress.
One of the reasons that I recommend Bluehost is the fact that they include WordPress installations for any domain hosted with them, unlike GoDaddy or another hosting provider which will try and charge you for every “extra.”
The first session is on me, it’s actually required before signing up for any of the other bundled deals. This is to ensure that everyone’s goals match up and to learn more about your building-style.
The first intro session is 100% free but required before signing up for any plan below.
Why is it required? I want to make sure that we’re a great fit for each other and answer any questions you might have about my teaching style or what to expect.
In this intro session, I’ll get a sense of how to best tailor any future lessons for you and we can even begin answer some of your initial WordPress questions.
*YES, you can schedule this new student intro session even if you don’t know whether you will continue or not.
No, there are no contracts, expectations or hidden charges on my end. Think of me as a guy who likes to chat about creative website builds and you can bounce any questions or WordPress topics off my brain. I’m here to point you in the right direction and take you from beginner (or no knowledge at all) to an advanced user who can build and edit pages all on your own.
Fill out the brief form below to start your scheduling process and I will get back to you promptly to schedule your first free intro session (no pressure at all). From here if you
Fill out the brief form below and feel free to mention what date you’d like your free intro session to start on. I’ll email you back ASAP to get the ball rolling on things.
Lessons run on your preferred time and can be scheduled in as we go (no need to commit to any specific schedule in order to begin)
Jon is based out of Colorado, in the U.S. but serves a variety of clients globally.