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 professional business website in WordPress without a page builder by using a suitable theme, pages, blocks, global styles and a clear…
You can create a simple sports club website with WordPress pages, posts, a navigation menu and a block-based layout. If you need fixtures, player prof…
You can showcase your work without a plugin by creating project pages and displaying them with WordPress’s Gallery block. For a portfolio that grows,…
You need an LMS plugin or theme for proper lessons, quizzes, enrolment and progress tracking. WooCommerce can handle payments, but it must be connecte…
You can set up a basic WooCommerce store without custom code: install WooCommerce, run its setup wizard, add products, configure payments, taxes and s…
For a host or domain move, copy the complete WordPress files and database, then test the clone before changing DNS. If you are changing membership plu…
WordPress does not natively sync membership status with Discord. The manual method is to invite members and manage Discord roles yourself; automatic r…
WordPress does not include membership pricing controls, so your membership plugin must handle the charge. Set the initial payment, recurring amount, b…
WordPress does not natively convert membership prices by visitor location. For a small site, show manually calculated approximate prices beside your b…
WordPress can assign roles and capabilities, but it does not include membership levels or automatic role changes when a subscription starts, changes,…
WordPress can schedule content for fixed dates, but it cannot natively release lessons a different number of days after each member joins. For signup-…
WordPress does not provide membership checkout fields by itself, so your membership plugin must handle the address. In Paid Memberships Pro, you can b…
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.