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title: "How do you teach WordPress to a mixed skill room? Women in WP episode 52"
date: 2021-02-22
author: "Courtney Robertson"
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  - name: "WordPress"
    url: "/category/wptips.md"
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# How do you teach WordPress to a mixed skill room? Women in WP episode 52

How do you teach WordPress to a room where skill levels run from beginner to nearly professional? [Angela Bowman](https://profiles.wordpress.org/askwpgirl/)colleague, Tracy Apps and [Amy Masson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sumydesigns/)colleague asked me that on Women in WP, episode 52. At the time, I taught WordPress at Code Differently, and the show credited me as Courtney A Robertson.

## 🎙️ Episode details

- **Topics:** from Moodle to WordPress, teaching WordPress in mixed skill classrooms, and small ways to help Learn WordPress
- **Show:** Women in WP, episode 52
- **Hosts:** Angela Bowman, Tracy Apps and Amy Masson
- **Guest:** me, credited as Courtney A Robertson, WordPress instructor at Code Differently
- **Released:** February 22, 2021
- **Listen and read along:** [Teaching WordPress with Courtney A Robertson, with a full transcript, on Women in WP](https://womeninwp.com/podcast/052-teaching-wordpress-with-courtney-a-robertson/)

Audio from Women in WP. [Read the episode 52 transcript on Women in WP](https://womeninwp.com/podcast/052-teaching-wordpress-with-courtney-a-robertson/).## 🧭 From Moodle to WordPress

To start, I began with WordPress around version 2.3, while teaching high school business education and running a Moodle site for my class. Then the hosts and I compared notes on Joomla and Drupal, then I walked through freelance development, my time at The Events Calendar, and the move to teaching at Code Differently.

## 🏫 Teaching WordPress in mixed skill classrooms

Next, we talked about techniques for classrooms where skills vary and for adult learners: structured routines, with room to experiment. For example, breaking tasks into smaller steps helped me in teaching and in working through pandemic life with young kids at home.

## 📚 Learn WordPress, and small ways to help

By then, Learn WordPress had launched in 2020, and I described my work on the Training team writing lesson plans. You don’t need a big time commitment to contribute. For example, proofreading, code review and creating featured images all help.

## 🧪 What can you take for teaching WordPress?

- **Topics:** from Moodle to WordPress, teaching WordPress in mixed skill classrooms, and small ways to help Learn WordPress
- **Instructors:** give mixed skill groups a routine, then an open problem to try.
- **Would be contributors:** pick one small Training team task, such as proofreading a lesson.

Also, more conversations like this one live in [my podcast and speaking archive](https://courtneyr.dev/category/speaking/).

## 🗓️ Archival note

Women in WP released this episode on February 22, 2021; the show notes say it was recorded February 18. Then I added this post on November 9, 2026, from a summary of the publisher’s show notes and transcript. Also, I left out personal family details. I haven’t relistened to the audio.





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