For the past few months, I've been heads-down building the most comprehensive Payload course that exists. It's called Payload Essentials, and it's finally ready for pre-release.
Nearly 70,000 words of scripted content. That’s about 10 hours of video. Two modules that take you from zero lines of code to a fully deployed, production-ready website built with Payload and Next.js 15.
No steps skipped. No hand-waving or “you should already know this.” All decisions are explained using my typical, comprehensive teaching style.
It’s broken out into 2 modules.
Watch the announcement for more information:
Module 1
Module 1 covers the entire Payload backend:
collections
globals
fields
blocks
rich text
and more
Module 2
Module 2 takes everything you built and renders it on a Next.js 15 frontend:
Local API
Rich text rendering
Block rendering
Responsive styling
SEO
and more
By the end, you have a site you can actually ship to a client.
So, what’s the value?
You could spend weeks reading docs, piecing together blog posts, and debugging half-finished GitHub examples and still not have a production-ready Payload project. Or you could sit down with this course and have a deployed site with cloud storage, SEO, cache revalidation, the works, in a fraction of that time.
This course saves you weeks of figuring it out on your own. That's exactly what I built it to do.
Early bird pricing is $249, which is half off the full release price of $499. And if you're outside the US, purchase power parity is built in through Gumroad, so the price adjusts to your region.
This won't last. If you're serious about adding Payload to your stack, this is the fastest way to get there.
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