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 →Create a Home, Services, About, Insights and Contact page, then set Home as a static front page and connect the pages with a simple navigation menu. Y…
You can build individual WordPress pages with Elementor Core, but a fully custom site-wide design usually needs Elementor Pro or an add-on for headers…
WordPress connects to external apps through its REST API. Use an application password when an app needs to read or change WordPress data, and send web…
WordPress does not reliably identify every unused file by itself. For a small library, review unattached media and delete confirmed items from Media >…
You can accept simple booking requests with a WordPress form and manage the calendar yourself. For live availability, payments, reminders, recurring a…
WordPress can create a responsive image gallery without a plugin, but its core Gallery block is not a full slider with autoplay and slide controls. Fo…
WordPress can publish your lessons, but it does not handle paid enrolment, student progress, quizzes or certificates by itself. For one simple course,…
You can improve local SEO in WordPress without a plugin by correcting your business details, creating useful service and location pages, improving tit…
WordPress creates a basic XML sitemap, but it does not automatically add Google’s video metadata. For a few stable videos, you can create and upload a…
You cannot force instant indexing, but you can remove common blockers and make new URLs easier to discover. Check WordPress visibility, link to the co…
WordPress does not include visitor analytics by default. You can add a Google Analytics 4 tag manually through a child theme or custom plugin, but con…
WordPress does not process payments through a form by itself. For a fixed price, you can submit the form and send the visitor to a hosted PayPal payme…
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.