WordPress

Practical advice, honest reviews, and real-world tips for making WordPress work for you.

WordPress isn’t just for bloggers anymore; it hasn’t been for a long time. These days, it powers everything from the Qantas newsroom to your local Pilates studio’s booking system. It’s huge. And that’s exactly where the problems can start.

If you’ve ever installed a WordPress theme that looked perfect in the demo but broke your layout the moment you swapped in your own content, you’re not alone. Want to tweak a design element? That could mean digging through half a dozen plugin settings, or worse, editing PHP files directly and hoping nothing crashes. It’s no surprise that many business owners end up with a site that looks “mostly fine” but feels fragile and unfinished under the hood.

At Keen To Design, we write about WordPress like we actually use it, because we do. We’ve dealt with everything from problematic page builders that slow your site to a crawl, to hosting providers who promise “WordPress optimisation” but throttle your traffic the moment it spikes. Our WordPress articles don’t assume you’re a developer, but we also don’t talk down to you. You’ll find step-by-step guides, tool reviews that skip the marketing spin, and honest comparisons for things like WooCommerce alternatives or caching plugins that won’t destroy your layout.

We know what it’s like to rebuild a client’s site that’s been hacked through an outdated plugin, or to chase down a white screen of death at 2am. This category is where we share what we’ve learned—the good, the bad, and the stuff no one tells you until it’s too late.

If WordPress feels like a love-hate relationship sometimes, you’re in the right place.