Llumàtics
From WordPress to Hugo: a site that grows with the project
In 2020, Llumàtics launched with a standard WordPress setup. It worked, but each season the project demanded more: new sections, documentation for students, integration between the schedule and courses, faster load times… The general-purpose CMS had become a bottleneck.
In 2026 we migrated to a site built from scratch with Hugo: multilingual architecture, high performance, and a structure designed specifically for an analogue photography school.
A complete course system
The new site organises the educational offer as a coherent ecosystem, not a disconnected list of courses.
The ideal path guides interested people through a recommended progression — from introduction to photography through to darkroom printing, covering development, enlarger work, and alternative processes. Each course shows where it fits within the whole.
Every course page includes objective, methodology, key contents, required materials, detailed pricing per number of participants, and a downloadable PDF. Everything needed to decide without having to call.
Schedule: own workshops and external collaborations
The schedule brings all educational activity together in one place: regular workshops at the home lab, and those Llumàtics runs for cultural centres, schools, festivals and other organisations. Each with full information, dates, pricing and an integrated pre-booking form.
Pre-booking and waiting list
When a course fills up, the site doesn’t cut the process short: it offers joining a waiting list. If the group can be completed from that list, participants get a better price. An incentive for those who trust the project before the course is confirmed.
Gift a course
A guided form for gifting courses: it walks the gift-giver through choosing the right type of course for the recipient’s profile, generates a gift voucher, and offers advice if needed.
Online documentation for students (in development)
Each student will have access to a personalised space with the documentation for their attended workshop: process theory, lab steps, visual references and technical sheets. And a named certificate acknowledging completion of the workshop.
No WhatsApp groups, no lost PDFs. The documentation where it needs to be, when it needs to be there.
Newsletter from the lab
A mailing list for those who want to know when a new workshop opens, when special dates come up, or when something interesting happens from the lab. No algorithmic intermediaries: the email arrives directly.
Search, speed and sovereignty
The site includes native search across courses, schedule and blog. No external JavaScript, no third-party dependencies, no Google Fonts or tracking scripts.
The migration from WordPress to Hugo drastically reduced load times. No database, no plugins, no unnecessary attack surface.
A model for any training organisation
Llumàtics is a concrete example of what LinuxBCN can build for anyone who works in education — whether analogue photography, ceramics, music, cooking or any other discipline. A website that is not a passive catalogue, but an active tool: it manages the schedule, facilitates bookings, retains students and communicates without depending on external platforms.