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All guides →WooCommerce includes cheque payments, so you do not need a plugin for the basic setup. Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Payments > Take offline payments…
WordPress does not calculate multi-level affiliate commissions by itself. You need an affiliate system that records parent relationships, calculates e…
You can track ad clicks and conversions in WordPress with Google Analytics 4, UTM-tagged links and event tracking. Impressions for self-hosted banners…
You can track ad clicks and campaign traffic with GA4, but reliable impressions and conversions need extra event setup. Use Google Tag Manager for a m…
WordPress has no built-in affiliate-program system. For a small programme, you can assign unique WooCommerce coupons and reconcile sales manually, but…
AffiliateWP can track the first subscription payment, but recurring commissions need a recurring-referrals add-on or custom automation. The manual rou…
You can add social sharing buttons with the Sharing Buttons block supplied by Jetpack, or use a dedicated sharing plugin for floating buttons and per-…
WooCommerce can manage stock without another plugin. Enable global stock management, turn it on for each product or variation, then set quantities, ba…
WordPress can build a landing page with a normal Page and the block editor, so you do not need a plugin for a simple page. Use a focused layout, set t…
Create a clear WordPress site with pages for capabilities, products, industries, quality, case studies, careers and contact. The manual block-editor r…
Create a clear WordPress site with pages for your products, services, capabilities, about information and contact details. Use WooCommerce if customer…
WordPress lets you bulk edit selected posts and pages from their list screens, including status, author, comments, pings and taxonomies. For titles, c…
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.