Courses & workshops
WordPress course
Training in a generic WordPress installation is a waste of time if your own site is set up differently. We use yours.
- Same-day reply
- Fixed price
- No lock-in
- In your own installation
- Editors and marketing
- No developer jargon
- A written guide afterwards
Service
WordPress course
What we go through
- How pages and posts relate on your site, and when to use which.
- The blocks and fields that exist on your site and what they were built for.
- Images: which sizes go where, and why it matters for speed.
- Titles and descriptions in the SEO plugin, and what is worth spending time on.
- What not to touch, and who to call when something goes wrong anyway.
After the course
I write a short guide to your specific setup with screenshots. It is usually five to ten pages, and it gets used precisely because it is short.
When new colleagues arrive they can read it instead of sitting through the same walkthrough again.
Deliverables
What you get
Concrete deliverables, not a report of recommendations someone else has to find time for.
- Training in your installation
Not a demo site. We work in what you actually have, with the fields and blocks that exist on your setup.
- A written guide
Five to ten pages with screenshots from your own site. Short enough that it gets used.
- A walkthrough of the usual mistakes
Image sizes, heading structure and the settings that cause problems six months later.
- A list of what should be fixed
Something always surfaces along the way. That list you can take forward yourselves or hand to a developer.
Process
How it works
Four steps. You know what happens when, and you can stop after any of them.
- 01
Your tasks up front
I ask for two or three concrete tasks people spend time on every week, then build the day around those instead of using my own examples from someone else's industry.
- 02
Morning: the technical part
Short and concrete. Not a talk about what the technology is, everyone has heard that, but how to actually get something usable out of it.
- 03
Afternoon: hands on
People work on their own tasks while I move around the room. That is where it sticks. I have never seen anyone change habits from watching a screen all day.
- 04
Material you keep
A follow-up document with what we built, including what ended up working. New colleagues can catch up later without sitting through the same walkthrough again.
Who does the work
I am the person you will be working with
My name is Mikkel and I have been building for the web since 2010. There is no project manager in between, and you will not get a junior on the job because the senior was busy. What you agree is what gets built, and I am the one building it.
Day to day I am a partner at Bigum&Co, and I have worked on more than 400 projects across ecommerce, pharma, construction and the public sector. Call or write — I usually reply the same day, and I will say straight away if the job is not a fit.
- Experience
- 16 yrs
- Projects
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0
- Reply time
- Same day
In depth
WordPress course
Why a generic WordPress course is a waste
WordPress does not look like itself from site to site. A site built with Advanced Custom Fields works completely differently from one built with Gutenberg blocks, and both differ from one with Elementor. Teach in a standard installation and half the group spends the day looking for buttons that do not exist on theirs.
So I spend a couple of hours on your setup beforehand. Then I know which blocks exist, what the fields are called, and where limits have been put in. The teaching ends up being about what people actually meet.
There is a side benefit: I usually find two or three things configured wrongly. An image size that never gets generated, a setting that makes every new page noindex, a field named something nobody understands. You get that list.
What editors most often lack
Three things recur. The first is images. People upload what the photographer sent, at full resolution, and a single four megabyte image can ruin a page's load time on its own. It is easy to learn, and it is nobody's fault — nobody ever said it.
The second is headings. H2 and H3 get chosen by how big the text looks, not by structure. The result is pages with five h1s or none, and a structure unreadable to anyone who cannot see the page.
The third is what not to touch. There is usually a handful of settings where one wrong click causes problems nobody notices for weeks. We go through those, and they go in the guide.
Reviews
What people say about me
I have never come across a developer as dedicated and capable as Mikkel.
Jonas Krogslund(translated from Danish) Mikkel is seriously good, helpful, lightning fast to reply — and on top of that he is a nice person.
Trine Handskemager(translated from Danish) Mikkel delivered competent, professional work setting up my website. Everything ran quickly and without a hitch.
Sisse Find(translated from Danish)
Services
Why me
- 16 years of experience
I have built for the web since 2010 and seen most of the ways a project can come off the rails. It makes the estimates more honest.
- 400+ projects
Across ecommerce, pharma, construction and the public sector. Chances are I have seen something close to your job before.
- You talk to the person coding
No project manager in between, and no junior on the job because the senior was busy. What you agree is what gets built.
Brands I have worked with
A selection. Some freelance, some through agencies, some across several years.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
- How long does it take?
- Three to four hours is enough for most editorial teams. Adding WooCommerce makes it a full day.
- Can you run it even though you did not build the site?
- Yes. I spend a couple of hours getting familiar with the setup beforehand, so the teaching matches what you actually have.
- Can you run it even though you did not build the site?
- Yes, that is actually the normal case. I spend a couple of hours getting familiar with the setup beforehand so the teaching matches what you have.
- Is WooCommerce included?
- If you have it, yes, but then it becomes a full day instead of half. Products, variants and inventory take more time than people expect.
- How many can attend?
- Up to ten if everyone is going to get hands on. If it is mostly for orientation, more is fine.