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Become a WordPress whizz by building custom websites with CMSs, reviews and payment features.

Purchase this course for $299

Or... get a discount by building a bundle with our learning paths!

A flexible, go-at-your-own-pace 8-week online course that teaches you how to use WordPress to build custom websites with CMSs, reviews and payment features. It's designed to have you building completely custom CMS driven sites within the first few weeks.

WordPress is great for blogs, e-commerce and building sites to hand off to clients. Learn how to build your own themes from scratch, customize them around your features, and implement e-commerce with payments.

What you’ll learn

Learn how to install WordPress and how to configure it for your own needs

Building themes from scratch + customizing them with advanced data and features

Converting designs into dynamic HTML, CSS + Javascript themes

How to find and use the best plug-ins + how to integrate them smoothly

Integrating e-commerce and payments with WooCommerce and Stripe

Getting our WordPress sites hosted online securely and handed over to clients

What you’ll get

21+ hours of video lessons – Practical, go-at-your-own pace learning

Access the community – Join our Discord and connect with thousands of SuperHi students and alumni

Continued help – Help from our expert teachers and educators with years of experience in the industry

Extra homework challenges – Test your knowledge!

Real world projects – Projects and code that you can alter and remix to add to your own sites and portfolio

Resources – Resources to get you started and going post-course

Who this course is for

This course is accessible to beginners. All you need is a tiny bit of front-end HTML + CSS experience – if you don’t have this already, we recommend you take our Foundation HTML, CSS + Javascript course first.

Most of our students work in the creative industries – designers, strategists and copywriters are the most common jobs – but anyone is welcome to join the course.

What you’ll need

A computer with Mac OS X 10.9 or above, Windows 7 or above installed and a broadband internet connection. That’s everything!

Want to try our teaching before signing up? Join our free 'Plan, Design + Code Your First Website' course!

Syllabus

Chapter 1

Cool Mat — Part 1

For our first chapter, we’ll start by looking at cool mat’s brief, translating it into a list of features that we can turn into code. We’ll then learn a bit about the web and how WordPress works before getting ourselves up and running with it.

Chapter 2

Cool Mat — Part 2

In our second chapter, we’ll introduce loops and how we can shape our post content to fit our design. Using our design and shopping list as a reference we’ll then work through our page’s front-end and get to grips with how to customize our theme.

Chapter 3

Cool Mat — Part 3

We’ll make our site dynamic so that it can be updated from the dashboard, looking at custom post types to better organize our content. We'll also convert our site into Korean before putting it live with a custom domain.

Chapter 4

Nomad Sun — Part 1

We’ll start with a new project, Nomad Sun: a travel blog featuring the most beautiful places in the world. We'll dive into creating WordPress sites with multiple pages, rearrangeable content using components and styling using design systems.

Chapter 5

Nomad Sun — Part 2

In our second and final chapter of building Nomad Sun, we’ll explore responsive design systems, work with galleries, use functions, animate page transitions, and optimize our websites for maximum performance.

Chapter 6

Alter Ego — Part 1

Starting on our third and final project, Alter Ego, we’ll lead with our client proposal and learn how to build an online shop using WooCommerce. We’ll also use Flywheel to develop and host our websites in a much quicker and easier fashion.

Chapter 7

Alter Ego — Part 2

This chapter we’ll make strong progress on the design of our store and understanding how to really customize WooCommerce using hooks, actions, and filters. As a rewarding finish, we’ll get our site to accept card payments using Stripe.

Chapter 8

Alter Ego — Part 3

For our final chapter we’ll style our site using a UI sticker sheet, batch import products to save time, add contact forms, and customize WooCommerce templates even further. To finish off we’ll get our site online, working fast and fully secure.

Your instructors

Our instructors have decades of professional experience, have spoken at international conferences and have won countless web design awards.

Rik Lomas

Rik (he/him) is a Mancunian coder, teacher and CEO of SuperHi. He was the co-founder of Steer (a code school in London) and has taught several thousand people to code. He is a bit too old to be posting memes on our social media and recently featured as a Sour Patch Kid in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.

Lawrence Gosset

Lawrence is a full-stack web developer and teacher who has also taught over a thousand people how to code. He was previously an instructor at London code school Steer.

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FAQs

If you're comfortable working with a computer, then yes!

Learning new and improving your existing skills is about being patient with yourself, building up your knowledge, developing confidence through practice, and with time. We've seen our students around the world do it, and so can you.

Our beginner courses are designed for people new to the subjects. They grow your understanding so you grasp everything you need to start applying your new skills and will also give you a path to dig deeper if you want.

Our teaching style is practical and straightforward and you'll have support from our expert instructors and community for as long as you need.

Still not sure if learning to code is right for you? Take our free Plan, Design + Code Your First Website course or dive into our First Steps to Code guide.

We have quite a lot of students that join us and have done some coding before but want to build up confidence and techniques.

In order to help get you where you'd like to be, have a look at the sites below to see which course you can make from scratch, without any help at all.

Baker & Brown – If you struggle to make this website from scratch, don't worry! We recommend you start off with our Foundation, HTML, CSS + Javascript course.

Jenna Buchholz – If you struggle to make this website from scratch, it's all good! We recommend you start off with our Javascript for Designers course.

Super Shapes – If you struggle to make this website from scratch, have no fear! We recommend you start off with our Advanced CSS + Javascript course.

All of our courses are unlocked and available for students to start their learning and go at their own pace. We do have a suggested weekly structure for some courses, which helps some students stay on track. However, you're definitely free to jump ahead or take as long as you need!

As soon as you checkout and pay, you'll have all the courses you paid for, in your student dashboard available to you immediately. If you're busy and can't start right away - no worries, you can pick it back up later.

At SuperHi, we provide online courses designed for creatives and made for everyone. Take a course on Code, Design, or Project Management 😊

The proof is in the pudding! Our students go on to make their own beautiful sites and some of their stunning work have won digital design awards. Take a look at our Hall of Fame to see some of the sites our students have built, many of which had only taken our Foundation course!

If you're a SuperHi student or alumni and would like to submit your project to be included in our Hall of Fame, please feel free to submit it here.

Yes, we do! All you'd need to do is send the links to your completed projects over to hi@superhi.com at the end of your course. We will review them, provide feedback if necessary, and then issue your certificate!

All our course videos are taught using the SuperHi Editor, but you'll be able to apply everything you'll learn to a code editor of your choice. Many students go on to use other code editors, for example, if their workplace has an existing standard.

Our SuperHi Editor is designed with many smart features to help avoid wasted time looking for things like a typo or missing bracket (which is why we made it!), but the same code concepts apply to any editor.

Yes! You can use your own custom third-party domains and connect them to your sites built with our SuperHi Editor. Additionally, all SuperHi sites come with free SSL Certificates for added protection.

Here's more information on how to connect a third-party domain