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 →WordPress does not process payments through a form by itself. For a fixed price, you can submit the form and send the visitor to a hosted PayPal payme…
WordPress does not provide course star ratings, review averages and learner eligibility controls by itself. You can use comments for simple written fe…
You can create a fashion lifestyle blog with WordPress using a block theme, the Site Editor, and standard posts, categories, featured images, and navi…
To accept tour bookings in WordPress, use a booking system that manages tour dates, places, customer details, payments and confirmation emails. A form…
You can create a construction business website with WordPress using a block theme, core blocks and a form plugin for quote requests. Build the key pag…
Create Home, Portfolio, About and Contact pages, then add each project with images, descriptions and a featured image. WordPress can handle a small po…
You can use WooCommerce to sell approved over-the-counter products, but prescription medicines need a properly licensed pharmacy, compliant prescripti…
WooCommerce includes a manual bulk editor for assigning or removing product categories from selected products. For large catalogues, repeated category…
WordPress core can publish property pages, but it does not include a proper property post type, advanced filters, map search or listing inquiry workfl…
You can create a furniture store with WooCommerce without custom code: install WooCommerce, organise your catalogue, add product variations, configure…
WooCommerce can handle an electronics store without a special store plugin. Set up products, categories, global attributes, filters, payments, tax, sh…
WordPress does not include a booking calendar or availability rules, so you need a booking plugin or a theme with booking features. Set your hours, se…
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.