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 →WordPress does not include a built-in expiry setting for published posts or pages. You can create a custom workflow using post metadata and WP-Cron, b…
To create an online bookstore, install WooCommerce, add each book as a product, organise titles with categories and attributes, then configure payment…
Start by fixing the search form and results template, then include the post types your visitors actually need. Native WordPress search does not index…
WooCommerce does not include a built-in custom-status editor. For a simple internal label, register the status with a small code snippet; for customer…
WooCommerce product sales reports do not automatically show true profit margins unless you record each product’s cost of goods. You can calculate marg…
WooCommerce does not create clean sequential order numbers by default because order IDs are shared with other WordPress content. A code filter can ref…
WooCommerce cannot process card payments by itself. Connect a payment gateway such as WooPayments, complete the provider’s verification, enable card p…
WordPress cannot completely stop visitors from copying public content. You can deter casual theft with CSS, JavaScript, watermarks and restricted down…
You can add custom CSS, JavaScript, HTML or PHP manually, but each type belongs in a different place. Use Additional CSS or a child theme for small ch…
Improve WordPress email deliverability by sending through an authenticated SMTP provider, using a domain-based From address, and publishing SPF, DKIM,…
You can improve WordPress SEO without a plugin by fixing indexing settings, choosing clear URLs, writing useful page titles and descriptions, improvin…
For simple public files, upload them to the Media Library and add a File block to a page. WordPress does not, by itself, provide reliable private-file…
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.