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 build a WordPress website visually without a plugin by activating a block theme and using Appearance > Editor to design pages, templates, head…
WooCommerce can save products for later, but it does not provide a customer-facing way to share and restore an entire cart. Use the native Save for La…
WordPress does not provide proximity search, geolocation listings or map displays as a complete built-in feature. You can build them with custom post…
WooCommerce can create and print UPS, USPS, DHL and FedEx labels through WooCommerce Shipping in supported US stores. After buying a label, tracking i…
Use an AI coding client to draft WordPress PHP, JavaScript and CSS, but keep the site in local or staging development and review every change. The man…
Elementor does not create event listings by itself. Use your event plugin’s shortcode in Elementor’s Shortcode widget, then style the surrounding layo…
WordPress does not include event bookings or waitlists by itself. For a small event, collect overflow signups in a form and promote people from a date…
You can create a small car listing website manually with a vehicle custom post type, custom fields, templates, filters, and enquiry forms. For dealer…
You can build a basic news or magazine website in WordPress without a plugin by using posts, categories, featured images, navigation and Query Loop se…
You can build a small property catalogue with WordPress custom post types, fields, taxonomies and templates, but advanced search, maps, agent profiles…
You can style the general event template with Divi Theme Builder, but it may not expose Modern Events Calendar fields or booking controls. For full dr…
WooCommerce does not create a Google Shopping XML feed by itself. For a small catalogue, you can maintain a Google Sheet or XML file manually, but an…
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.