Do it yourself, do it right
Build your own WordPress site the way the pros set it up
A free, practical guide from a web design company that has been building sites since 1998: the plugins we use, the exact settings, and why each one matters.
The setup
From a plain install to a fast, secure site in four steps
Click a step, or watch it play through. Every site we build starts exactly like this.
My New Site
Hello world!
Step 1: Install WordPress. You get a working site with a default theme, but it is plain, unprotected and not tuned for speed.
WordPress in numbers
The most widely used website platform
Sources: W3Techs, 31 October 2026; WordPress.org plugins and themes directories, October 2026.
Why WordPress
Why we build on WordPress
You own it, and you can move it
Your site is open-source software plus your own content and database. Any host can run it and any WordPress developer can work on it. Leaving a "website builder" service usually means starting over; leaving a WordPress host means copying a folder and a database.
Built for SEO
Clean, editable addresses, full control of titles and descriptions, automatic sitemaps with Yoast, and fast pages with the right caching. Everything Google asks for is a setting, not a workaround.
A plugin for almost anything
Online stores, bookings, memberships, forms, multilingual sites: with tens of thousands of free plugins, your site can grow with your business without a rebuild.
Any design you want
Thousands of themes, and visual builders like Divi that let you design pages by dragging and dropping, then change them yourself whenever you like.
No licence fees for the core
WordPress itself is free. You pay for hosting and for the premium tools you choose, not a monthly fee per page or per feature.
Help is never far away
The world's biggest website community means answers, tutorials and developers everywhere, so you are never stuck with one company.
The guides
Everything you need, one page at a time
Kadence Security
Site scan, 2FA, lockout e-mails off, a private login address and author URLs off.
Our work
Sites we have built
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