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 clear WordPress site with pages for your products, services, capabilities, about information and contact details. Use WooCommerce if customer…
WordPress lets you bulk edit selected posts and pages from their list screens, including status, author, comments, pings and taxonomies. For titles, c…
WooCommerce lets you change logos, colours, fonts, subjects, headings and footer text from its email settings. For deeper layout changes, use hooks or…
WordPress does not provide a complete multilingual website system by itself. You can duplicate pages and link language versions manually, but a transl…
Build a WooCommerce store by installing the plugin on WordPress, running its setup wizard, adding products, and configuring payments, tax and shipping…
Most WordPress hotel booking plugins can send confirmation, cancellation and payment emails from their own settings. For reminders before check-in or…
Gravity Forms lets you manage submissions in WordPress, but it does not provide a built-in front-end entry layout builder. You can customise existing…
For occasional bookings, create a Zoom meeting and add its join link to your booking confirmation or service instructions. For regular or one-to-one a…
You can bulk change basic course data through your LMS or WordPress list screen, but the built-in tools usually cover only status, taxonomy, or select…
WooCommerce lets you select several orders and bulk-change their status or remove personal data. It does not natively bulk-edit addresses, payment met…
WordPress’s Table block is fine for a small, mostly static table. For records that need regular editing, importing, filtering, or bulk updates, store…
WordPress lets you select multiple users and change their role, delete accounts or send password-reset emails. It does not natively bulk-edit profile…
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.