Right. How do I actually do that?
Step-by-step guides for the jobs WordPress makes harder than they should be — and the tools that do them for you when you would rather not.
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All guides →For simple rules, use WordPress conditional tags or current_user_can() in a child theme or custom shortcode. For editor-managed content based on roles…
You can build a WordPress website without coding by choosing a suitable theme, creating pages with blocks or starter patterns, setting a homepage, and…
You can create a basic interactive image map in WordPress with an image, a element and clickable elements inside a Custom HTML block. The manual metho…
You can create a WordPress blog or magazine without a plugin by using posts, categories, a static homepage, and the Site Editor’s Query Loop blocks. T…
Build the site with WordPress pages, a focused homepage, global colours and type, clear navigation, and mobile checks. You do not need a plugin for th…
Create the core pages first, then use a block theme or page builder to arrange your classes, trainers, timetable, testimonials, location, and contact…
WooCommerce gives you the core tools for a sports nutrition store: products, variations, stock, payments, tax, shipping and checkout. You can build it…
WooCommerce can create percentage, fixed-cart and fixed-product coupons with spending, product, email and usage limits. For BOGO deals, auto-apply off…
You can build a solar company website in WordPress without custom code or a specialist plugin. Create a clear service structure, set a static homepage…
You can build a basic directory with a custom post type, taxonomies and custom fields, but WordPress does not provide directory search, maps, reviews,…
You can sell a small number of fixed tour dates with WooCommerce variable products, using each date as a variation with its own price and stock. For l…
WordPress does not include a built-in rating system for posts and pages. You can build one with a custom plugin using stored vote data and an AJAX for…
What’s in every guide
- The short answerWhat the answer actually is, before any steps. If the honest answer is “you need a plugin”, it says so up top.
- What you needThe prerequisites, so you find out about them now rather than four steps in.
- The stepsIncluding the manual route where one exists, with the parts that make it annoying left in.
- Tools that do this jobEvery product we have covered that solves this task — a list that grows as we cover more.
- SourcesThe documentation each step was checked against, so you can verify it yourself.
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How this works
The job comes first, not the product
A guide is about a task you are trying to finish. Whether a product is involved is a detail, and sometimes the answer is that you do not need one.
The manual route stays in
Where a job can be done without installing anything, we show you how — including why it is irritating. A tutorial that opens with “install this plugin” is an advert.
Guides get better with age
Several products usually do the same job. Rather than publish a page for each, we keep one guide and add each tool as we cover it. The comparison at the bottom keeps growing.