I’m Harpreet. I built furniture for 12 years, then learned to build websites.

From 2007 to 2019 I worked as a professional carpenter. My days were spent with a hammer, a saw and the smell of sawdust, building furniture by hand.

I didn’t go to a top college and I didn’t work in an office. I learned a trade with my hands: cutting wood, fixing joints, and fixing my own mistakes when a piece didn’t come together right. That trade shaped the way I build everything today, including websites.

In February 2016, while I was still working full time as a carpenter, I discovered blogging. I had no teacher, a slow internet connection, and most guides online were written in English, which wasn’t a language I was strong in yet.

• I spent 3 months learning HTML and CSS because I thought I needed it to build a website. It felt slow, and it became one of my biggest strengths.
• I started on Google Blogger, then moved to WordPress with my first real domain, missingideas.com.
• It took close to 4 years of working two jobs to understand how SEO, hosting and content work together.

Nobody handed me a shortcut. I broke things, fixed them, and kept a note of what worked, the same way I used to remember which joint held and which one didn’t.

In December 2019 I put down my carpentry tools for good and became a full time blogger. I had about 8 months of savings and a big dream, nothing more. Two months later, Google suspended my AdSense account. That was my main income gone.

Two real choices: go back to the workshop, or find another way to survive online. I chose to keep going.

I started gpresstheme.com to help people with the GeneratePress theme. After 4 months of working every day without earning a single rupee, I made my first affiliate sale. It was worth $20.

• It proved I could earn online without depending on AdSense.
• It taught me to help people solve a real problem, and let the money follow.
• It eventually led to WP Blogging 101, honest, technical, no-fluff advice for beginners.

Over the years I’ve built a small network of WordPress sites and tools, each focused on one narrow problem instead of trying to cover everything on one site.

I also build small tools on the side, like the Chrome extensions DA PA Checker and ScreenGrab, mostly because I needed them myself first. Running this many sites means I spend most of my working hours inside WordPress: testing plugins, managing hosting and writing content.

See the sites and tools →

I registered harpreetkumar.com on December 17, 2016, while I was still a carpenter during the day. It is older than every other site I run. It never came with a clear plan, and for most of its life it was a personal experiment. The Hindi blog came first. Moving to English in 2018 was a bigger shift than it sounds.

Between 2018 and 2022 my attention moved to projects that paid the bills, and this site went quiet. In 2022 I deleted almost everything on it. But I kept renewing the domain every year.

If you find old, unrelated content on the Wayback Machine, that is why. It was a different site, written by the same person at a different point in life.

What changed between 2016 and now

In 2016 I was writing part time, in Hindi, with no strategy. I didn’t understand SEO or hosting. By 2022 I had been running WP Blogging 101 for a couple of years and knew the difference between a site that grows and one that just sits there. This site today is a fresh start.

I kept paying for this domain for years without using it, partly out of habit and partly because a domain carrying your own name is hard to walk away from.

By 2026 I had years of experience running WordPress sites, testing plugins and writing SEO content. It made sense to put that experience somewhere that carries my own name, instead of only under a brand name. This time there is a plan behind it: real content, published consistently, instead of another half finished blog that goes quiet after a year.