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 core does not provide member profiles, activity feeds, groups or social interactions, so you need a community plugin. BuddyPress is the manu…
For simple sharing, let members paste YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud or other supported media links into community posts. If members must upload audio and…
WordPress cannot create a full social network on its own. You need a community plugin for profiles, groups, activity feeds and messaging; BuddyPress i…
WordPress does not include a complete community gamification system, so you need either custom development or a gamification plugin. The manual route…
WooCommerce supports text reviews and star ratings, but it does not provide customer photo uploads in core. Enable native reviews first, then use a ph…
WooCommerce’s default thank-you page can be changed with hooks or an upgrade-safe template override. For different pages by product, category, payment…
WordPress comments are not a proper forum, so you need a forum plugin for topics, replies, member accounts and moderation. The manual route is to conf…
You can create a basic education website with WordPress pages, blocks and a suitable theme, without writing code. For online lessons, enrolment, quizz…
To build an online store with WordPress, install WooCommerce, choose a compatible theme, add products, configure the shop pages and design the catalog…
You can accept simple one-off donations with a PayPal button or payment link, without a WordPress plugin. For card payments, recurring gifts, receipts…
WordPress cannot handle hotel availability and nightly reservations on its own. Use WooCommerce with a hotel booking extension, define rooms, rates an…
You can create a simple portfolio in WordPress without a plugin by building Home, Work, About and Contact pages, adding project images, setting a stat…
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.