Solid Academy — A learning community for WordPress pros

Solid Academy

Solid Academy is for new and established WordPress professionals. Anyone who wants to start or grow a business around WordPress belongs here. It includes free resources to learn at your own pace — downloadable guides, recorded live sessions, and other learning material.

Solid Academy is the place for WordPress professionals and anyone who wants to build their business around WordPress.

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Academy — benefits

Join an audience of your professional peers each month for a live session on Solid Academy’s YouTube channel. Get the latest WordPress news, plugin roundups, and training sessions on technology and business topics from AI to project management. You’ll also get the latest updates from StellarWP and the WordPress community. These live, public sessions are recorded and added to our library so you can watch them anytime.

Solid Academy Guides are free eBooks that cover everything you need to know to start a business — and succeed — with WordPress. From security fundamentals and site maintenance best practices to business tips and strategies, Solid Academy Guides will help you find your footing and grow.

Solid Academy’s free tutorials will teach you how to use — and extend — WordPress’s capabilities as a foundation for any website or web application. Use them for your own development and to educate your team and clients.

Premium — benefits

Solid Academy Premium Courses

Solid Academy courses go beyond technical training to focus on the best practices for running an online business. These exclusive courses are only available to our Solid Suite customers with active subscriptions.

Solid Academy sessions are live, interactive training workshops led by reputable subject matter experts for WordPress professionals.

Solid Academy Premium Office Hours

Do you have questions about a WordPress project? Client situations? Business concerns? This informal, unstructured, live event allows you to submit questions in advance and get answers every week.

Grow With Other WordPress Professionals

A Solid Academy subscription holds the highest value for WordPress agency owners, freelancers, and other solopreneurs. With our free library of learning resources and live sessions, you’ll get a solid foundation in fundamental WordPress knowledge, site maintenance, and security. And once you’ve purchased the tools of the trade — Solid Suite — Solid Academy’s Premium content is open to you. You’ll learn how to grow your business with efficient processes and a supportive peer network.

As a Solid Academy Premium member, you get:

  • New premium courses updated every year on topics like SEO and Starter Sites
  • Members-only weekly office hours
  • A library of older course videos to watch at your convenience
  • An extensive library of professional WordPress training tutorials and eBooks

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“I would not be where I am today without SolidWP. They’re a huge part of my success. It’s not just about the right tools and plugins, it’s about the coaching, training, and community that helps me feel confident and refine my process. I have this significant resource, this roadmap, to help solve any problems or struggles I face in my business.”

Tammie O’Neal, Founder at O’Neal Design

“I was using one of Solid Security’s competitors and we still got hacked! Since I’ve been using Solid Security our site has been rock solid! Love the products and the team.”

Erica Eide, Founder at EricaEide.com

“I have used Nathan Ingram’s training sessions weekly for several years now. It is SolidWP’s most valuable asset (along with Nathan) in my view. I’ve learnt and continue learning and staying up to date with our ever changing digital ecosystem.”

Lidija Hirsl, Founder at eMosaik.com

“Until I got involved in the Solid Academy community, there was nothing like that for me out there on the Internet.”

Doug van Wolde, Founder at WeGo.ca

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Academy FAQ

Yes! You get FREE access to all Solid Academy premium courses if you have an active Web Designers’ Toolkit or Solid Suite subscription. The Toolkit — which also included Kadence Theme Pro, Kadence Blocks Pro, and Restrict Content Pro — is being sunset and will no longer be available to purchase. Solid Suite is taking its place and is now sold separately from the Kadence Suite.

Our online training events are livestreams that used Zoom in the past but are moving to Youtube in 2023. All instruction is given live and in real-time, along with an interactive webinar chat for attendees to ask questions and interact with other attendees.

To really get the most out of our training, we recommend blocking off time in your schedule to attend the live training sessions. But if you can’t make it to any or all of the live webinars, you can watch the webinar replay videos and review the course downloads at your convenience.

Solid Suite

1 Site
A seriously solid foundation for WordPress websites — 
Solid Security, Solid Backups, and Solid Central
$199 per year