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 →Build a custom WordPress website by planning its pages, choosing a suitable theme, creating the content, and adjusting templates, colours, typography…
WooCommerce cannot calculate a live price from typed measurements on its own. For fixed sizes, use variations; for customer-entered length, width, are…
You can navigate much of WordPress admin with Tab, Shift+Tab, Enter and arrow keys, while the block and site editors add dedicated shortcuts. Press Ct…
WordPress cannot calculate commissions or send affiliate payments by itself, so you need an affiliate management plugin. With AffiliateWP, connect Pay…
Back up both your WordPress files and database before resetting anything. You can reset manually by creating a clean installation or clearing the data…
WooCommerce’s built-in product blocks and [products] shortcode create product grids, not full product tables. For a basic catalogue, you can build a t…
WooCommerce does not provide a dashboard setting for conditional cart notices, but you can add one with PHP on the classic cart page. For product, cat…
WooCommerce alone can sell a membership product, but it does not create membership plans with automatic content access, expiry or member discounts. Fo…
WooCommerce uses one shipping package by default. You can split the cart manually with the woocommerce_cart_shipping_packages filter, but conditional…
You can customize a WordPress design without code using Appearance > Editor on a block theme or Appearance > Customize on a classic theme. For deeper…
WordPress does not include built-in menu rules for membership levels. You can manually swap separate menus with theme code, which is fine for simple l…
WordPress does not include a built-in post-view limit. You can build one with custom code that tracks visitors and resets their allowance, but a membe…
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.