School Website Custom WordPress 2026

Little Children's
Nursery School

A bespoke website for a Christian nursery school in Gleemoor, Athlone, caring for little ones for more than 35 years. Built from scratch on a custom WordPress theme with no page builder.

  • WordPress
  • Custom theme
  • Custom PHP
  • FMN Connect
  • Schema.org
  • Self-hosted fonts
The Little Children's Nursery School home page on a computer, showing the headline, Book a Visit and WhatsApp buttons, and a photo of the school

01 The brief

A small school needed a site that is fast, clear and easy to act on.

Parents look for a nursery on their phone, often while doing something else. The site had to load quickly, say who the school is in seconds, and make the next step (a visit, a message, a call) obvious. It also had to feel like a nursery, not a template.

02 What was built

A complete school website, built from scratch.

03 Major features we built

Major features we built

The Little Children's Nursery School home page on a computer, with the Book a Visit and WhatsApp buttons and a photo of the school

Book a Visit and WhatsApp

Parents can act in one tap from any page, on any device.

  • Book a Visit opens a short form from every page
  • WhatsApp buttons in the header, footer and phone bar
  • Tour, general and programme enquiries
  • Forms are handled by the FMN Connect plugin
The Sneak Peeks page, Our favourite moments, showing three video polaroids: Games Day, Cowboy Dress-Up Day and Spa Day

Sneak Peeks

A scrapbook of school life: themed days, lessons and events.

  • Photo carousels and short silent videos
  • Videos stay paused on phones until a parent taps play
  • Photos are resized to the size they show, to keep pages light
  • Keyboard and swipe friendly
The Little Children's Nursery School home page on a phone, with the headline and the Book a Visit and WhatsApp buttons

Built for phones

The phone layout was designed first, then widened for computers.

  • Swipe carousels with arrows and dots
  • A sticky Book a Visit and WhatsApp bar
  • Large tap targets and readable text
  • No sideways scrolling on any page

Find My Nursery enquiry sync

Enquiries from the website arrive in the school's Find My Nursery dashboard.

  • Each request is signed, so strangers cannot post fake enquiries
  • A repeated request is recognised and stored once
  • Enquiries are labelled as coming from the website
  • Built on the FMN Connect plugin and a receiver on Find My Nursery

SEO and structured data

Search engines get clear, accurate facts about the school.

  • School, website, breadcrumb and FAQ schema
  • The FAQ on the page and in the schema come from one list
  • Page titles and descriptions kept short and clear
  • Sitemap, social share image and llms.txt

Speed and privacy

No page builder and no outside font or icon services.

  • Self-hosted fonts and icons
  • Images lazy-loaded and sized to fit
  • Nothing loaded from a font or icon service
  • 95+ mobile PageSpeed on every page

Easy to keep right

The facts about the school live in one place.

  • Hours, phone, address and FAQ feed the page, footer and schema
  • Update once and everything agrees
  • Plain PHP and CSS that any developer can read

04 Results

Live, fast and easy to act on.

lcns.co.za is live. Parents can book a visit or start a WhatsApp chat from any page, enquiries arrive in the school's Find My Nursery dashboard, and the pages are built to score 95+ on mobile PageSpeed.

The same approach works for any nursery or school: a design that fits the brand, a fast phone experience, and enquiry flows that connect to the tools you already use.

The Little Children's Nursery School home page on a phone, with the headline and the Book a Visit and WhatsApp buttons
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Pages built
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Muted video clips on Sneak Peeks
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Outside font or icon services
Synced
Enquiries arrive in Find My Nursery

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