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 →You can create a custom WordPress settings page without a plugin by adding an admin menu item, registering settings and fields, then rendering a form…
Gravity Forms automatically assigns each submission a unique entry ID, which you can show in confirmations and notifications with the {entry_id} merge…
You can build a streamer gaming website with WordPress blocks, a static home page, navigation, stream embeds and pages for clips, schedule and communi…
You can build a construction company website in WordPress without a special plugin by using a block theme, Pages, the Site Editor and a contact form.…
Use WordPress’s Audio or Video block for a player that stays visible while visitors scroll. If playback must continue while visitors open other pages,…
You can build a small, single-owner fundraising site with WordPress pages and a payment form, but a multi-creator crowdfunding platform needs a plugin…
Elementor can create custom content layouts without a post feed. Build the structure with Flexbox or Grid containers, add image, title, subtitle and l…
Easy Digital Downloads uses one base currency by default, so showing live prices in several currencies needs a currency-conversion extension or custom…
You can search and replace WordPress database text with WP-CLI, but take a backup first and use a serialisation-aware method. A raw SQL replacement ca…
WooCommerce does not automatically add free gifts based on cart conditions. You can use a hidden gift product with a 100% coupon for a basic manual of…
WooCommerce can process booking payments, but it does not manage appointments, time slots, or availability by itself. Use a booking plugin with WooCom…
You can display a public X profile or list on WordPress without a plugin by generating an embedded timeline and placing its code in a Custom HTML bloc…
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.