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 create a personal blog and portfolio in WordPress without a page builder: use Pages for your home, about and portfolio content, Posts for arti…
To back up a WordPress website properly, save both the database and all site files, including uploads, themes, plugins, and configuration. You can do…
WooCommerce does not manage a marketing list by itself. Connect it to an email service, add a consent-based signup form to your shop and checkout, the…
WordPress does not include a support-ticket workflow system, so you need a ticket plugin or custom integration. The manual route uses documented ticke…
For a small support site, add an FAQ page with WordPress's Details or Accordion blocks. You need a plugin when visitors must search a larger FAQ libra…
WordPress has no built-in support ticket system or recurring-ticket feature. The manual route uses WP-Cron plus your ticket plugin's documented ticket…
You can build a small WordPress knowledge base with pages, parent pages, menus and the Search block. For a larger support library with article categor…
You can print a support ticket by opening its individual WordPress page and using your browser’s print command, then saving it as a PDF. For cleaner l…
WooCommerce handles common manual order actions without a plugin: open an order to change its status, send order details or add a note, or use bulk ac…
WooCommerce payment gateways normally update order statuses automatically through return URLs, callbacks, or webhooks. Configure the gateway first, th…
LearnDash does not natively sync course enrolments, completions, and lesson activity with a social community. You can link course pages to community g…
WooCommerce does not provide warehouse-level stock for one product out of the box. You can manage small inventories manually with separate products or…
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.