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 →You can customise a WooCommerce store without a plugin by using the Site Editor with a block theme, or the Customizer and theme settings with a classi…
Prevent broken internal links by choosing a stable permalink structure, creating links through WordPress’s page search instead of typing relative URLs…
Translate the pages that your menus link to, then create or synchronise a menu for each language and add a clearly labelled language switcher. Check s…
WooCommerce can send one recovery email for eligible checkout orders, but it does not recover every anonymous cart or run a full campaign by itself. U…
WooCommerce does not provide an admin screen for conditional fees. For one simple rule, add a PHP snippet using WooCommerce’s cart fee hook; for multi…
WordPress does not automatically send form submissions to an email list. You need a form integration, webhook or custom API code to map the email fiel…
You can publish a basic course with WordPress pages, media and navigation, but a private, trackable course needs an LMS or membership plugin. Use page…
WordPress does not provide profiles, groups, activity feeds and private messaging as one built-in system, so you need a community plugin. BuddyPress g…
PeepSo’s core community features do not provide a complete member photo-album system on their own. Use the PeepSo Photos feature, configure its upload…
WordPress does not provide friend requests or connection lists by itself, so you need a community plugin or custom development. BuddyPress is the prac…
WordPress core can handle idea content and comments, but it has no built-in idea submission and voting workflow. You can build one with a custom post…
WordPress core does not provide member profiles, activity feeds, groups or social interactions, so you need a community plugin. BuddyPress is the manu…
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.