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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 →To add one interactive location map, copy Google Maps’ Embed a map iframe and paste it into a WordPress Custom HTML block. For multiple markers, filte…
WordPress does not provide a built-in way to segment members for marketing emails. Export member data from your membership system and build segments i…
WooCommerce does not include built-in back-in-stock notifications. For a small shop, you can collect consented email addresses and notify customers ma…
WooCommerce core can calculate tax, but it does not provide a VAT number field, VIES validation, or automatic reverse-charge handling. For a complete…
WooCommerce does not provide a customer-facing order editor in the standard My Account area. For occasional changes, edit the order yourself from WooC…
Gravity Forms cannot automatically capture abandoned form data without its Partial Entries add-on or another form-abandonment tool. The manual Save an…
Build the design around clear categories, high-quality product photography and a simple mobile shopping path. You can create the layout manually with…
WordPress can store classified ads as a custom post type, but it does not provide front-end submissions, listing moderation, faceted search, maps or p…
You can build a professional WordPress website without coding or a page-builder plugin. Choose a suitable theme, create focused pages, set your homepa…
You can build a basic service directory with a listing post type, service and location taxonomies, custom fields and an archive page. For front-end su…
You can create an IT startup website in WordPress without custom code by building pages with blocks and editing the site-wide header, footer, colours…
WordPress does not include a front-end content editing form by default. You can build one with a custom plugin using WordPress post functions, capabil…
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.