A WordPress tutor is an expert who teaches you WordPress inside your own website, at your own pace: what’s wrong, what to do next, and how to do it yourself.
At Emily Journey & Associates, tutoring is delivered as our private WordPress training package: two 4-hour one-on-one sessions for $1,997, with 60 days of follow-up support. Working with a tutor inside your own website is faster than piecing it together from tutorial videos that don’t match your theme.
If you searched for a tutor, you’re probably not looking for a course. You’re looking for a person: someone who can look at your actual website and answer your actual questions. That’s the service, and this page explains how it works.
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What a WordPress tutor does
Free tutorials teach WordPress in general. A tutor teaches your WordPress: your theme, your plugins, your half-finished pages, and the specific thing that broke last Tuesday.
In practice, that means your tutor looks at your website with you and says: here’s what’s wrong, here’s what to do about it, and here’s how to do it yourself. You’re hands-on, so you do the clicking. Sessions are conducted over Zoom or in person, and you set the agenda: your tutor builds each session around what you want to learn and what your website needs that day.
“Working with Emily is seriously awesome! She knows the questions that I don’t even know to ask. She saved me a lot of time–a rare commodity. I can get this website job done so that I can totally focus on the work of earning new customers. Worth every penny.”
Jay Singleton, Gitomer Certified Advisor
That’s the working definition of a good tutor, better than any we could write ourselves.
What you’ll learn faster with a WordPress tutor
Faster, because your tutor sees where you are and skips what you’ve already mastered.
The agenda is yours, but most tutoring engagements draw from the same territory as WordPress training: managing pages and posts, working with images and media, menus and navigation, choosing and troubleshooting plugins, WordPress settings, website security, blog structure, and the SEO fundamentals that make pages visible in search.
The full menu we build sessions from is on our what to expect during WordPress training page. You can also learn more from the video above.
Tutoring, coaching, or training: what the terms mean
| Term | What it means | How it relates |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress tutor | One expert teaching you WordPress on your own website | The same service; “tutor” is the word people bring from the education world |
| WordPress coach | One expert teaching you WordPress on your own website | The same service; see our WordPress coach page |
| WordPress training | One expert teaching you WordPress on your own website | The same service, and the term we use; the package is described in detail on our WordPress training page |
The rows say the same thing on purpose. If you’ve been trying to work out whether a tutor is the cheaper or lighter version of training, it isn’t: we offer one package, one price, whichever word you searched. It includes two four-hour sessions customized to your website, then 60 days of follow-up support by phone, email, and Zoom at no additional charge. One-on-one training is $1,997; group pricing and scheduling are on our WordPress training page.
Virtual or in-person WordPress tutoring
We offer WordPress tutoring virtually and in person. Both work, and the price doesn’t change with format.
If you doubt your ability to learn over Zoom, the doubt is common and usually wrong: your tutor sees exactly what you see through screen sharing. You drive, and the sessions are recorded, so anything that went by too fast is yours to replay. In-person tutoring is available at our offices or yours; details are on the in-person WordPress training page.
How I learned WordPress without a Tutor
When I started learning WordPress, I did it the way many of you have tried: without help.
I struggled to get the hang of it for more than a year. I watched a lot of amateur YouTube videos that were sometimes helpful but were mostly useless and out of date. I wished that I had somebody to call on whenever I had a question or ran into a roadblock. But, I didn’t. I was on my own. Finally, after almost two years of persistent effort and building a few websites on trade, I had a solid handle on the platform.
I don’t think learning WordPress has to be so tough.
Two years is a long time. So when I wanted to learn Search Engine Optimization (SEO), I decided to take a faster route.
I hired a virtual tutor who coached me from Denver.
During our virtual tutoring sessions, I was impressed with how easily he communicated his knowledge and authority on the topic. He provided answers for questions I didn’t even know to ask! That was my first experience with virtual learning, and it was worth every penny.
Is virtual WordPress tutoring the best option?
Despite my initial hesitations about virtual instruction, I am glad that I took the plunge. I know it can seem “not quite as good” as face-to-face learning. I wondered:
- Could I really learn this way?
- Would I get as much value from the training?
Thankfully, I didn’t let my doubts get the best of me. That virtual learning experience not only changed the way I did business, it changed my life.
I invested in WordPress and tutoring for the same reason you’re here today: independence.
For me, I wanted the independence to transition from selling for other people to selling my own material.
For you, independence may mean something different. Maybe you want to:
- Save money by not having to hire someone to do this for you.
- Break free from a reliance on an unresponsive marketing agency.
- Handle this responsibility that’s been handed to you by your boss.
My path to mastering WordPress led me down a road of trial and error, a bad experience with an affordable website designer, launching my own web design agency, and meeting all kinds of business owners.
Your journey may look a bit different, but as your WordPress tutor, we can help you end up at a similar destination: independent mastery over this powerful platform.
Let’s take a look at how we’ll help you get there.
Free ways to learn WordPress first
You don’t have to hire anyone. WordPress.org’s own documentation and sites like WPBeginner are free, and for getting oriented, they’re genuinely fine. But none of them know your theme, your plugins, or your goals. So you spend your evenings translating generic instructions into your specific website, and that translation work is what a tutor eliminates.
Try the free route first if you’re unsure. If you find yourself six tutorials deep with a website that still doesn’t do what you want, you’ll know which kind of learner you are, and neither kind is wrong.
“I learned so much. Thank you. I highly recommend Emily Journey & Associates.“
Janet de Acevedo Macdonald, Discover Bisbee
Frequently asked questions about WordPress tutoring
Who should hire a WordPress tutor?
Anyone responsible for a WordPress website who wants to run it themselves: business owners, the staff person who inherited the website, bloggers, and professionals adding WordPress to an existing skill set. If you’d rather someone else run the website entirely, that’s website management, and we offer that too.
What can I learn from a WordPress tutor?
Your tutor will walk you through everything from setting up pages, customizing themes, and using page builders, to SEO optimization and managing plugins. Training is tailored to your specific goals and challenges.
How is tutoring different from an online WordPress course?
A course teaches a sample website to a thousand students. A tutor teaches your website to you. Courses are cheaper; tutoring is faster, because zero minutes are spent on material that doesn’t apply to you.
Can I do WordPress tutoring virtually?
Yes, from anywhere in the U.S. or Canada. Virtual sessions use screen sharing inside your own website and are recorded for you to keep.
How quickly will I feel confident in WordPress?
Most people are making real changes to their own website during the first session, because that’s where the session happens. Confidence follows competence, and the 60 days of follow-up support exist for the questions that show up once you’re working alone.
Can a WordPress tutor help me with SEO too?
Absolutely. Our tutors can guide you through using plugins like AIOSEO and Yoast SEO, improving site structure, and applying SEO best practices to make your site more visible in search engines.
Tell us about your website and what you want to learn.
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