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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 →WooCommerce now includes a dedicated Brands taxonomy, so you can create brands, assign them to products, and give each brand its own archive page with…
Use WordPress’s built-in Posts > Categories screen to create a clear hierarchy, then assign categories from each post’s editor sidebar. The manual rou…
LearnPress does not process every payment method by itself. For a simple setup, use its built-in PayPal or offline payment option; for cards, currenci…
WordPress does not provide complete cookie-consent management by itself. You must identify the cookies your site uses, keep necessary cookies running,…
WooCommerce includes Analytics reports and CSV exports, but it does not provide a general built-in schedule for emailing sales summaries. For recurrin…
WooCommerce does not include a full ticket queue by default. For a small shop, manage requests through a support inbox and record replies as private o…
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…
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.