How do you teach WordPress to a room where skill levels run from beginner to nearly professional? Angela Bowmancolleague, Tracy Apps and Amy Massoncolleague 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
🧭 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.
🗓️ 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.