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- 11 full video walkthroughs are embedded in our tutorials right now — free, no account, no email.
- Every paid video course includes free preview lessons, so you can judge the teaching before spending anything.
- Video is worth far more when you watch it with your own site open in a second window and do each step as it happens.
- Free video's real limit isn't quality, it's sequence and diagnosis — it can't tell you what you skipped, and it wasn't recorded about your site.
Most pages promising free WordPress training videos are a funnel: three embedded clips, a sales pitch, and a mailing list. We'd rather just show you the shelf. This page lists every free video we have, the order to watch them in, and an honest account of where free video stops being enough.
Some skills are simply easier to learn by watching, and WordPress — all dashboards, editors and settings screens — is one of them. A good walkthrough shows you the exact screen, the exact click and the exact result, which removes the single biggest source of beginner anxiety: not knowing where things are.
This is one part of a bigger picture. If you're still deciding between formats, our guide to WordPress training online compares free tutorials, video courses, interactive walkthroughs and live instruction side by side.
What's genuinely free here, and what isn't
We publish a lot of free material and still believe in being precise about the boundary, because "free" is the most abused word in online training. So here is exactly which free WordPress training videos and resources you get, and what sits behind a price.
Free, no account, no email:
- 11 video walkthroughs embedded directly in our tutorials — listed below, watchable this minute.
- 200+ written step-by-step tutorials across eight topic areas.
- The 83-page WordPress manual (PDF), in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and German.
Free, account required:
- Preview lessons inside the video courses. Every paid course opens several lessons so you can judge the format before paying.
Paid:
- The full 42-course, 195-lesson library — $49 one-time for a single course, or $29/month for everything.
- Live instruction — $85/hour one-on-one, or a $595 seat in the live two-afternoon class.
That's the whole shelf. Nothing on the free side expires, and nothing is a trial clock.
Eleven free WordPress training videos you can watch now
Each of these tutorials has a complete video embedded at the top, with the written steps underneath for when you'd rather skim than scrub. No signup, no paywall.
Getting started
- Installing a WordPress plugin — the safest first "I changed something" moment on any WordPress site.
- The WordPress block editor: is it time to switch? — what blocks are and why the editor works the way it does.
- What a WordPress tutor actually does — five reasons people book one, and when you genuinely don't need to.
Content and media
- How to add categories in WordPress — the organising step most people skip until their blog is a mess.
- How to add a gallery in Gutenberg — grouping images properly instead of stacking them one by one.
- Adding an audio file in Gutenberg — podcasts, recordings and anything else that plays.
- How to schedule a post or page — publishing on a date instead of remembering to press the button.
- Password-protect a page or post — sharing something with a client without putting it on the open web.
Going further
- 13+ places to get Gutenberg blocks — extending the editor beyond what ships with WordPress.
- Elementor help and training — if your site was built with a page builder rather than the block editor.
- WordPress hosting: why I hosted with WP Engine — an honest account of a hosting decision, which is a bigger factor in site speed than most beginners realise.
Every one of these is short enough to watch twice. Do that: once to see where it's going, once with your own dashboard open in a second window, doing each step as it happens. The second viewing is where the learning actually occurs.
Free preview lessons in the video courses
Beyond the embedded walkthroughs, every course in our video library opens several lessons for free. That's deliberate — you should be able to hear how someone teaches before you pay them.
The obvious place to start is WordPress Fundamentals: 48 lessons and about 142 minutes covering the dashboard, core settings and the block editor, built for someone at zero. Watch the free preview lessons, and you'll know within minutes whether the format suits you.
The courses are built from small pieces on purpose:
- One task per lesson. Not a 45-minute lecture — a focused walkthrough you can finish, apply, and find again six months later when you need it.
- Interactive walkthroughs beside the videos. You click through the steps yourself in a guided environment. Clicking builds recall that watching doesn't.
- A sequence that matches real need. Orientation, content, structure, themes and plugins, then visibility.
The order to watch them in
If you're starting from nothing, don't wander the library at random. This arc mirrors how our courses are sequenced, and every step below has free material behind it.
Read what WordPress is, then take the dashboard tour. Goal: no admin menu item is a mystery. Change nothing yet.
Watch the block editor walkthrough, then practise editing text. This is the skill you'll use daily, so over-practise it.
Galleries, audio and categories. The difference between a site that works and one that feels finished.
Install your first plugin, then read which ones are worth having before adding a second. Restraint is the skill here.
Scheduling and password protection. Small features, disproportionately useful once you're running a real site.
Finish with WordPress SEO basics, so the site you built is one people can actually reach.
Watching versus doing
Here's the uncomfortable truth about video learning: watching feels like progress, and it's only half of it. You can watch ten videos in an evening and retain two.
Learners who make video training stick all do the same thing. A loop that works:
- Watch once, hands off. Just see where it's going.
- Watch again, doing each step on your own site or a test page as it happens on screen.
- Close the video and repeat the task from memory. If you can't, rewatch only the part you lost.
That third step is the one everyone skips and the one that does the work. It's also why our courses pair videos with interactive walkthroughs — the doing is built in rather than left as an exercise — and why every live session comes with a recording. A video of your site doing your tasks is the most rewatchable training material there is.
What free video can't teach you
We'd rather say this plainly than have you discover it after eleven evenings.
Free video is genuinely enough when you're learning fundamentals, your question is common, and you have more time than budget. If thousands of people have hit the same task, a good walkthrough almost certainly exists.
There's also a quality trap worth naming. Most free WordPress training videos on the open web are undated, and WordPress changed more between 2020 and 2026 than in the decade before it. A video that opens in the classic editor without saying so is teaching an interface most sites no longer use by default — and a beginner has no way to tell. Check the publish date before you follow along, on our videos as much as anyone else's.
Free video runs out when:
- The problem is specific to your site. No video was recorded about your exact theme-plugin-content combination. Generic instructions can only get so close, and page builders make the gap wider.
- You don't know what you don't know. A library answers questions. It can't tell you which questions you should be asking — that you never set up backups, or that three people have administrator accounts they don't need.
- Trial and error has got expensive. If you've spent three evenings on something a knowledgeable person would resolve in twenty minutes, "free" has quietly become the costly option.
Restore a backup you've never tested, and tell you your hosting is the actual problem. Both are common, both are invisible from a tutorial, and both are the sort of thing that gets caught in the first ten minutes of a live session.
Free written and PDF training to pair with the videos
Video is not always the fastest format. When you want to skim rather than scrub, two free resources sit alongside every video above:
- 200+ written tutorials, organised into eight categories and searchable. A tip on using them well: search for the task, not the technology. "Add a button to a page" gets you further than reading everything ever written about the block editor.
- The free 83-page WordPress manual — the essentials in reading order, as a PDF you can print or keep beside the keyboard, free in five languages.
Together with the videos, that's a complete beginner curriculum at no cost. Plenty of people never need to buy anything, and we're fine with that — the free library exists to be used.
When the free videos run out
Start free and stay free as long as it's working. Watch the eleven free WordPress training videos above, follow the order, keep the tutorial library bookmarked, and download the free manual today.
When you want the full sequence rather than scattered pieces, the video courses pick up where the free walkthroughs stop — $49 for a single course with lifetime access, or $29/month for all 42. And when you hit the thing no video covers because it's about your site, that's what live one-on-one training is for: $85 an hour over Zoom, on your own website, with the recording sent the next day. Get in touch or call (844) WP-TUTOR and tell us what you're stuck on — we'll tell you honestly whether a free video already answers it.
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