How to Create a WordPress Child Theme Before Customizing Your Website
A WordPress child theme keeps your customisations safe when the parent theme updates. Here’s how to create one in five steps — no plugins required.
Website Setup
Website Setup covers the core configuration decisions that shape how a site performs from the start — domain, hosting, theme, and URL structure, plus the settings and core pages that need to exist before anything goes public.
Many of these decisions are disruptive to change once content is live and indexed, so the emphasis is on sequencing — get the defaults right early rather than untangling them a few months in.
How to Add Related Posts in WordPress to Keep Visitors Reading
Related posts plugins compare each article’s categories, tags, and content to surface the closest matches automatically. Here’s how to set one up properly with YARPP, why to check its update history before relying on it, and where automatic suggestions beat manual internal links.
How to Create a Coming Soon Page in WordPress Before Launch
Set up a WordPress coming soon page with SeedProd in five minutes, and understand why it’s not interchangeable with maintenance mode — the HTTP status code difference that protects an already-indexed site’s rankings.
How to Create a Blog Page in WordPress
The classic blank-page-plus-Settings→Reading method still works on classic themes — but most current default themes are block themes, which handle the blog archive through the Site Editor’s own template instead, and mixing up which approach applies is a real, common point of confusion.
How to Add a Cookie Consent Banner in WordPress
Learn how to add a cookie consent banner to your WordPress site, block non-essential cookies until visitors consent, and configure a GDPR-compliant setup using Complianz or CookieYes.
How to Add Social Media Links to a WordPress Website
Adding social media links to a WordPress website is straightforward once you know where each method lives — plus what Google’s own John Mueller has actually said about whether social links affect rankings, and a real note on the plugin most guides still misattribute.
How to Set Up SMTP in WordPress So Contact Form Emails Don’t Go Missing
WordPress emails go missing because the built-in PHP mail function gets blocked or flagged as spam by most hosts, with no error to warn you. Connecting a proper SMTP service fixes it in about 15 minutes, permanently.
How to Create and Publish a Blog Post in WordPress (Step-by-Step)
A step-by-step guide to creating and publishing a blog post in WordPress — covering the block editor, categories, featured images, permalinks, and mobile preview before you hit Publish.
How to Set Up WordPress Comments and Prevent Spam
Learn how to configure WordPress comment settings and Akismet spam filtering properly — including the correct order Akismet and your Disallowed Comment Keys list actually run in, and Akismet’s free-tier rules for monetised sites.
How to Use the WordPress Block Editor: Beginner Guide
The WordPress block editor can feel disorienting the first time you open it. This beginner guide explains how the three main areas work, how to add and configure blocks, and the common mistakes to avoid — so you can write, build, and publish without reaching for a page builder plugin you may not need.