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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 need an LMS and commerce setup because WordPress alone cannot handle course access, progress tracking, instructor dashboards, payments or revenue…
To build a website with Elementor, install Elementor, create your pages, set global colours and fonts, build each layout with containers and widgets,…
You can build the basic church website with WordPress pages, a block theme and the Site Editor. Events, sermon archives, forms and online donations us…
Save the design as an Elementor template, copy its generated shortcode, then paste that shortcode into a WordPress Shortcode block, widget or Elemento…
WooCommerce does not watermark product images by itself. For a few products, edit copies of your images before uploading them; for an entire catalogue…
You can create an industrial business website in WordPress without a specialist plugin by using a suitable theme, clear service and product pages, a q…
You can create a landing page in WordPress without a plugin by adding a Page, choosing a suitable template, and building the layout with blocks. You m…
You can add simple page-load animations in WordPress with a CSS class and custom CSS. Scroll-triggered effects need JavaScript or an animation plugin,…
WordPress can automate simple tasks through built-in plugin settings, hooks and WP-Cron, but cross-plugin workflows usually need an automation plugin…
For a short maintenance window, WordPress can serve a custom page from a maintenance.php drop-in in wp-content, activated with WP-CLI. For longer or b…
Build the site around what buyers need to verify: your capabilities, industries served, equipment, certifications, projects and a clear quote request.…
Create the desktop layout first, then check tablet and mobile views and adjust columns, spacing, typography and visibility at each breakpoint. WordPre…
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.