Internship Wordpress Theme Customization Jobs in Richmond, VA

About the Job
The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform has thousands of students looking for online Wordpress tutors nationally. As a tutor on the Varsity Tutors Platform, you'll have the flexibility to set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and make a real impact on students' academic success and understanding. All from the comfort of your home.
Why Join Our Platform?

• Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, reaching up to $40/hour.
• Get paid up to twice per week, ensuring fast and reliable compensation for the tutoring sessions you conduct and invoice.
• Set your own hours and tutor as much as you'd like.
• Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform. No commuting required.
• Get matched with students best-suited to your teaching style and expertise.
• Our AI-powered Tutor Copilot enhances your sessions with real-time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features, helping you save prep time and focus on impactful teaching.
• We handle the logistics—you just invoice for your tutoring sessions, and we take care of payments.

What We Look For In a Wordpress Tutor

• Advanced Subject Mastery: Deep knowledge of WordPress site creation, theme selection and customization, page and post management, plugin installation and configuration, media management, basic SEO, widget and menu configuration, and WordPress security practices. Ability to explain content management system architecture, responsive design, and hosting requirements while preparing students for website creation, blogging, and web management roles.
• Conceptual Teaching & Problem-Solving: Skilled at teaching WordPress site building, content management, and customization techniques. Guides students through installing WordPress, selecting and customizing themes, creating pages and blog posts, installing essential plugins, configuring navigation menus, optimizing for search engines, and maintaining site security. Emphasizes building functional websites without coding and connects WordPress to blogging, small business marketing, and portfolio development.
• Curriculum Awareness & Adaptive Instruction: Familiar with WordPress training curricula and common challenges such as theme customization limitations, plugin conflicts, and understanding hosting versus WordPress.com differences. Adapts instruction using hands-on site building projects, plugin tutorials, and content strategy exercises to support students from WordPress beginners through intermediate users building professional websites, blogs, and online portfolios.
• Effective Teaching Methods: Ability to identify concepts students commonly struggle with, explain material using multiple approaches, and adapt instruction to meet individual learning needs and styles.
• Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style.
• Ability to adapt to different learning styles and student needs.

Ways To Connect With Students

• 1-on-1 Online Tutoring - Provide personalized instruction to individual students.
• Instant Tutoring - Accept on-demand tutoring requests whenever you're available.

About Varsity Tutors And 1-on-1 Online Tutoring
Our mission is to transform the way people learn by leveraging advanced technology, AI, and the latest in learning science to create personalized learning experiences. Through 1-on-1 Online Tutoring, students receive customized instruction that helps them achieve their learning goals. Our platform is designed to match students with the right tutors, fostering better outcomes and a passion for learning.
Please note: Varsity Tutors does not contract in: Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia or Puerto Rico.