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 build a medical website with Elementor using a compatible WordPress theme, structured service pages, clear contact calls to action and respons…
You can create a basic yacht rental website with WordPress pages and a booking request form. For live availability, deposits, automatic confirmation a…
You can build a horror gaming website without a plugin by using a block theme, the Site Editor and standard WordPress blocks. Create a dark homepage,…
You can design an esports site with WordPress blocks, pages, posts and a suitable theme, but tournaments, teams, players and match data need a dedicat…
Create the site in WordPress with a clear home page, service packages, galleries, testimonials, an about page and a contact form. You can build it man…
Create the pages first, choose a charity-appropriate theme, then build a focused homepage with your mission, impact, campaigns and a clear Donate butt…
WooCommerce can sell digital products by itself, but it cannot manage multiple independent sellers, vendor dashboards, commissions and payouts without…
You can build a small property website with WordPress pages, images and contact details. If visitors must search by price, location, property type or…
You can create a gaming community website with WordPress, BuddyPress for profiles, groups and activity, and bbPress for forums. The manual route works…
You can create a gaming website manually with a WordPress theme, pages, blocks and the Site Editor, without a plugin for the basic layout. The fast ro…
WooCommerce can take the payment, but it does not create appointment slots or manage availability by itself. For occasional bookings, sell a virtual s…
WordPress does not include appointment waitlists, so the manual option uses a booking form, spreadsheet and email follow-up. For automatic cancellatio…
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.