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 →Optimise WooCommerce product pages with unique titles, useful descriptions, clean URLs, descriptive image alt text, accurate price and stock data, int…
You can build a tech startup website manually with WordPress, a block theme, pages, patterns, and the Site Editor. For a faster launch, use a startup-…
Create a small set of pages, choose a block or compatible startup theme, set a static homepage, and build the layout with WordPress blocks or a page b…
You can add browser-based text-to-speech with JavaScript, but it will not create downloadable audio files and voice support varies by browser. For mul…
WordPress block themes can create responsive menus with the Navigation block, including a mobile overlay and menu icon. Classic themes usually depend…
WordPress does not include general like and dislike voting for self-hosted content, so you need a plugin or custom code. A manual build uses buttons,…
You can create a simple coming soon page by publishing a landing page and assigning it as your static homepage. That does not hide the rest of your si…
WordPress can hold family biographies, photographs and historical stories using ordinary pages, but a clickable family tree with relationships, search…
WordPress can handle a multi-author site without a plugin when writers use the dashboard: assign Author or Contributor roles, add an Editor to review…
You can create a basic conference website with WordPress pages, a navigation menu and an external registration form. If you need event calendars, tick…
WordPress can handle the university’s public pages, but courses, quizzes, progress tracking, enrolment, and restricted student access require an LMS o…
You can create a custom WordPress settings page without a plugin by adding an admin menu item, registering settings and fields, then rendering a form…
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.