WordPress course with certificate: the 10 best in 2026

Best for developers who want to build custom Gutenberg blocks. You create a block library with React and PHP, including shape dividers, an image gallery and a button group, covering static and dynamic blocks, variations, transforms, inner blocks, interactive blocks and styling.

It has 4.8 stars from 286 reviews and nearly 2,000 students. It runs about nine hours with eight resources and was updated in October 2026. We lowered it because it is a narrow developer topic that benefits from React experience.

Best for freelancers who want to build and run a WordPress website business. It covers local development environments, choosing hosting, best practices and design systems for custom sites, and building several responsive websites in two practice sandboxes, one with block themes and one with the Divi builder.

It has 4.7 stars from nearly 700 reviews and more than 5,200 students. It runs about 18 hours with five resources and was updated in December 2025.

Best for beginners who want to build modern sites with Elementor and no code. It teaches WordPress and Elementor from scratch with an over-the-shoulder view as you build responsive websites, and is the first part of a four-part series that also covers getting traffic.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 1,900 reviews and more than 11,000 students. It runs about 20 hours with four quizzes and 18 resources, and was updated in December 2025.

Best for site owners who want full design control with a page builder. It covers the free and Pro versions of Elementor: finding design inspiration, fonts and colours, the box model, sections and columns, reusable templates, building a full theme with Pro, motion effects and mobile optimisation, with design tasks along the way.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 2,000 reviews and more than 12,000 students. It runs about 13 hours with 10 resources and was updated in August 2026.

Best for WordPress users who want to master the built-in block editor. It covers Gutenberg in depth with the Twenty Twenty-Five theme, the Document Overview and Command Palette, layout widths, padding and margin, common and advanced blocks, template hierarchy and Global Styles, then builds a complete block theme from scratch.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 700 reviews and more than 4,100 students. It runs about seven hours and was updated in February 2026. Basic WordPress knowledge is expected.

Best for anyone who wants to build an online shop. In four steps it covers installing WordPress and turning it into a store with WooCommerce, setting shipping and tax rates and payment gateways, designing pages with page builders, and optimising the shop for search engines.

It has 4.7 stars from nearly 900 reviews and more than 17,000 students. It runs about 29 hours with eight resources and was last updated in September 2025.

Best for people who want to code custom WordPress sites. Building a website for a fictional university, you learn PHP, turn an HTML template into a theme, create custom post types and fields, use JavaScript and the REST API, let visitors sign up, build a personal notes feature and a like button, and deploy the site, with newer chapters on block themes and plugin development.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 27,000 reviews and more than 128,000 students. It runs about 46 hours with 175 resources and was last updated in April 2025. Basic WordPress and HTML are expected.

Best for learners who want to build many kinds of WordPress sites. It covers domains, hosting and XAMPP, installation, themes and plugins, then five projects: a personal site, a business site, a blog, a WooCommerce shop with PayPal and Stripe payments, and a real estate site using custom post types, custom fields and templates, plus SEO.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 6,800 reviews and more than 59,000 students. It runs about 65 hours, the longest course here, with five quizzes and 24 resources, and was updated in October 2026. It does not cover PHP back-end programming.

Best for beginners who want a working website in an afternoon. You build a site step by step: pages and blog posts, colours and theme, embedded YouTube videos, custom menus, photo galleries, multiple authors, plugins and widgets, a contact page, spam protection and a custom homepage.

It has 4.8 stars from more than 8,000 reviews and more than 24,000 students. It runs about five hours, the shortest course here, and was updated in December 2025.