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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 has no universal booking-to-calendar sync, so your booking plugin must provide a Google integration, an iCal feed, or an API connection. Use…
WordPress does not provide a complete newsletter list and sending system by itself. Use your email marketing provider’s hosted or embedded signup form…
WordPress does not provide one universal event report. Use your event plugin’s booking or attendee records, and WooCommerce order reports when tickets…
WordPress does not include multi-day event scheduling, ticketing or daily check-ins by itself. For a simple event, publish a page with the dates and s…
You can create a roofing company website in WordPress without a page-builder plugin: choose a suitable theme, create service and project pages, build…
Create the site around the questions visitors ask first: when services happen, where the church is, what to expect, and how to get involved. WordPress…
Build the site with WordPress pages, a block-based layout, project photos, service-area information and prominent quote buttons. You can do the design…
You can create an architecture portfolio in WordPress without a plugin by building project pages, adding image galleries and arranging them through yo…
You can create a fashion magazine in WordPress without a plugin by using posts, categories, featured images, the Site Editor and Query Loop blocks. Bu…
You can build an IT services website manually with a WordPress block theme, pages, patterns and a contact-form plugin. Create a static homepage, servi…
WordPress can display podcast episodes with its built-in Audio block, but a public podcast also needs a valid RSS feed and reliable audio hosting. You…
You need a booking plugin for live yoga class reservations, capacity limits, payments and reminders. A form plus email or a spreadsheet is fine for a…
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.