Anyone can install WordPress in ten minutes. The difficulty starts afterwards, when the theme looks nothing like the demo, the header cannot be edited, the contact form quietly stops delivering mail, and nobody can remember which of the twenty-two installed plugins is the one breaking the layout. This course is two days of building a site properly, in the order a professional builds one, so that the site you end up with can be handed to its owner and left running.
You build one site across the two days: a five-page website for a small business, supplied as a brief with written copy and photographs. Home, services, about, contact and a blog. You work in the block editor and a block theme, setting colour, typography and spacing once in the Site Editor so the whole site follows, editing the header and footer as template parts rather than fighting a theme options panel, and building sections as patterns you can reuse on the next page instead of pasting them.
The second day is the part that decides whether a site survives contact with the real world. You install and configure a contact form and confirm that mail actually arrives, size and compress images so pages are not thirty megabytes of holiday photographs, write titles and meta descriptions, submit a sitemap to Google Search Console, set up scheduled backups and user roles, and then work through a written pre-launch checklist: DNS, HTTPS, search visibility, forms tested, broken links and redirects. You finish by writing the handover note the site owner needs in order to update their own site without breaking it.
No coding is required and none is assumed. A small amount of CSS is shown so you know where it goes and when it is the right answer, but every exercise can be completed without writing any. You do not need to buy hosting or a domain to attend: a practice environment is provided, and if you already have a site or a domain in hand you are welcome to work on that instead.
Classes run live online in your own timezone or in the classroom in Colombo, with the recording available for twelve months. Pricing is shown in LKR for learners in Sri Lanka and in USD for everyone else. Organisations can be invoiced against a purchase order, and the same syllabus can be run privately for a team, building your own site rather than the practice one.
