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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 →You can generate an affiliate QR code without a dedicated WordPress plugin: copy the affiliate’s tracked referral URL, add campaign parameters if need…
Zapier can send new affiliate registrations, referrals and payout events to your CRM, email platform, spreadsheet or accounting app. You can build thi…
WordPress has no built-in feature that automatically recommends related galleries. For a small site, add linked gallery cards below each gallery manua…
WordPress can import a photo collection, but it does not sync Lightroom collections by itself. For occasional uploads, export the photos, upload them…
Elementor can create image galleries without another plugin. Add its Basic Gallery or Gallery widget, choose your images, set the columns and image li…
WordPress can link gallery images to their media files or attachment pages, but it does not provide a universal deep-link URL that opens a chosen imag…
WordPress can create responsive image galleries without a plugin. Use the built-in Gallery block, choose an appropriate image resolution, set sensible…
AffiliateWP core lets you read affiliates, referrals, payouts, creatives and visits through authenticated REST endpoints. Creating, updating or deleti…
You cannot create a proper multi-vendor auction marketplace with WooCommerce alone. Use WooCommerce for products and checkout, a marketplace plugin fo…
You can create a startup website in WordPress without a special plugin: choose a suitable theme, create your core pages, set a static homepage, build…
You can build a complete WordPress site without coding by choosing a block theme, creating your pages, and designing the header, footer, colours and l…
WordPress can show a few properties as normal pages, but a proper real estate site needs structured listings, custom fields, search filters and usuall…
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.