Veravix is a practical reference for anyone building or managing a WordPress website. Every article here starts from a real question — the kind someone types into a search engine when they’re mid-build, stuck on a specific step, or trying to understand whether they’ve set something up correctly. The answers are based on direct experience, not documentation summaries or generic overviews.
The site is run by Etienne Basson, a web builder who has worked through the full range of what building and maintaining websites actually involves — from initial hosting and WordPress setup through to performance optimisation, security hardening, ecommerce configuration, and content strategy. That hands-on background is what shapes the way each topic is covered: practical, opinionated where experience justifies it, and focused on what actually works rather than what sounds good in theory.
The topics covered span the full website-building process: choosing and configuring hosting, installing and setting up WordPress, choosing themes and plugins, building site structure and navigation, writing SEO-ready content, securing a site, improving performance, setting up WooCommerce for ecommerce, connecting analytics tools, and the freelancing side of web design. The coverage is broad because building a website well requires making good decisions across all of these areas — treating them as separate subjects misses how they interact.
The audience is people who are building or managing their own websites — beginners working through WordPress for the first time, and intermediate users who want to understand what they’re doing, not just follow steps blindly. If you arrived here through a search, the article was written for the situation you’re in. The goal is to give you enough context to make a good decision or complete a task confidently, not just enough to get through the next click.
If you notice something that’s out of date, inaccurate, or covered in a way that doesn’t match your experience, the contact page is the best place to reach out.