Essential Steps to Create Your Website
Etienne Basson 
Setting up Google Analytics 4 and Google Search Console in WordPress gives you the data you need to track traffic, monitor rankings, and fix technical issues. This guide covers creating both accounts, adding them to WordPress, connecting them together, and confirming everything is working.
Over time, WordPress fills its database with post revisions, auto-drafts, spam comments, transient options, and orphaned plugin data. This guide explains how to clean up and optimise your WordPress database safely, reduce its size, and keep it lean going forward.
Most contact forms on WordPress sites look fine on the front end but quietly fail to deliver messages. This guide covers how to install WPForms Lite, configure spam protection and email notifications, add the form to a page, and test that it is working before launch.
A WordPress firewall is one of the most effective ways to block malicious traffic before it reaches your site. This guide covers how to install and configure Wordfence, what the key settings do, and how to confirm your firewall is active and protecting your site.
A WordPress site backup has two parts: the database and the files. This guide shows how to set up automated backups with UpdraftPlus, where to store them, and how to restore your site if something breaks.
Most guides for adding Google Analytics 4 to WordPress rely on a plugin. This guide shows how to add GA4 directly using the gtag.js code snippet — no plugin required, full control over implementation.
The six WordPress settings screens to configure right after installation — permalinks, reading, discussion, general, media, and privacy — and why the order matters.
A practical guide to the AI tools that speed up WordPress website building — from writing content and generating images to planning site structure and writing code snippets.
How to create a WordPress navigation menu in a classic or block theme — including how to add pages, set dropdown sub-menus, assign locations, and avoid the most common setup mistakes.
How to load Google Fonts or self-host custom fonts in WordPress without a plugin, and how to apply them to headings and body text via CSS.