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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 →Create the desktop layout first, then check tablet and mobile views and adjust columns, spacing, typography and visibility at each breakpoint. WordPre…
WordPress does not provide course lessons, quizzes, enrolment tracking or paid access by itself, so you need an LMS plugin or theme. The manual route…
Start with the booking plugin’s own honeypot, CAPTCHA or anti-spam setting. If it has none, you need an addon or custom development because WordPress…
To sync bookings to email lists, use your booking plugin’s Mailchimp integration or connect its booking event to the Mailchimp API. A manual CSV impor…
To display tracked affiliate information, your site needs an affiliate system such as AffiliateWP to identify the referring visitor. You can build a c…
WooCommerce does not provide a full built-in system for branded invoices, packing slips and labels. Use a document plugin, then customise its template…
WordPress does not create affiliate accounts or track referrals by itself, so you need an affiliate management plugin. The simplest route is its built…
You need Easy Digital Downloads with the Recurring Payments extension to sell subscriptions with automatic renewals. Configure a supported payment gat…
WordPress already blocks logged-out visitors from wp-admin, but you should still limit admin capabilities, enable two-factor authentication, disable d…
You can create a minimalist WooCommerce store without an extra design plugin. Choose a simple theme, limit your colours and fonts, configure the shop…
You can build a basic ISP website in WordPress without a specialist plugin: create pages for coverage, plans, support and contact, then assemble the l…
You can build a professional portfolio with WordPress pages, image galleries and a clear navigation menu. For separate project entries, use a portfoli…
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.