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 →To build a WordPress site with Elementor, install a compatible theme and the Elementor plugin, create your core pages, then design them with global st…
WordPress can display uploaded or embedded videos, but it does not provide a complete YouTube-style sharing system. For user uploads, profiles, modera…
You can create a basic pricing table without a plugin by building plan cards with the Columns, Group, List and Buttons blocks. For responsive comparis…
You can build a responsive WordPress website without a special plugin. Choose a responsive theme, use flexible block layouts, set readable typography…
For a small number of testimonials, build a page with WordPress Quote, Group, Columns and Image blocks. If you need sliders, ratings, filters, reusabl…
Gravity Forms does not provide a full coupon system in the core form builder. For a simple fixed discount, use a text field with conditional logic and…
WordPress does not create a multilingual front end by itself, so you need either a multilingual plugin or separate WordPress sites linked together. A…
Translate theme and plugin strings with WordPress gettext files: edit a PO file, compile its MO file, and place it where WordPress expects it. For a f…
WordPress does not provide a generic save-and-resume feature for front-end forms. Use a form builder with saved drafts, add browser storage for same-d…
WooCommerce does not include a true configurable composite product type in core. You can use a grouped product for a simple collection, but a plugin i…
WordPress does not translate media by itself. With WPML, you can translate image titles, alt text, captions and descriptions in the content translatio…
For translation jobs, WPML can export XLIFF files and import the completed translations. For strings, use PO files. Moving posts, custom post types, t…
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.