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 →WooCommerce does not include a complete loyalty points programme. You can manage simple repeat-customer rewards with coupons, but a proper system for…
WordPress does not translate arbitrary form plugins by itself. For a simple form, create a version for each language and place it on the matching tran…
WordPress does not include a complete front-end user dashboard, so you need existing membership or LMS features, custom development, or a dashboard pl…
WordPress includes a Table block for simple tabular data, but it does not provide a general chart builder in core. Use a Custom HTML block with an ext…
Oxygen Builder can create advanced layouts without a plugin by combining Sections, Divs, Flexbox, CSS Grid, reusable classes and breakpoint-specific s…
Gravity Forms provides multi-page navigation but no built-in control for animated page changes. You can add a fade or slide with custom CSS and JavaSc…
Gravity Forms includes an Entries screen for administrators to browse, filter, view, and edit submissions in WordPress. It does not provide a complete…
WordPress does not sell recurring memberships or restrict content by payment status on its own. You need a membership plugin, or custom code connectin…
Gravity Forms can limit the total number of submissions, but it does not natively reduce stock for individual products or choices. For simple forms, t…
WooCommerce can run a small dropshipping operation without a specialist plugin, but you must manually maintain supplier stock, forward paid orders and…
WooCommerce does not include RedSys by default, so you need a payment gateway module. The official Redsys WooCommerce module is suitable for a normal…
A full, automatically updating Facebook feed usually needs a WordPress plugin connected to a public Facebook Page. You can embed individual public pos…
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.