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 can handle user accounts and basic roles, but it does not include paid memberships, recurring billing or membership-level content protection…
WordPress does not include a store locator with nearest-location search, filters and map markers. You can build one with a custom post type and mappin…
You can build a construction company website without custom code by creating core pages, setting a static homepage, and using WordPress blocks for the…
You can create a photography portfolio in WordPress without a plugin by using a suitable theme, a static home page, and Gallery blocks for each projec…
Install the WooCommerce plugin on WordPress, run its setup wizard, add products, configure payments, taxes and shipping, then place a test order. WooC…
You can design a professional WooCommerce store without writing code by using a block theme, the Site Editor and WooCommerce’s product, cart and check…
You can create a technology business website in WordPress without a page-builder plugin by using Pages, a block theme and the Site Editor. Build the c…
You can build a basic childcare or school website in WordPress without a page builder: create pages for programmes, fees, staff, admissions and contac…
You can build a SaaS startup website in WordPress without custom code by creating focused pages, setting a static homepage, and designing the header,…
WordPress does not include an AI writer in its core editor. The practical route is to generate a brief or draft with an AI tool, paste it into the blo…
Install WooCommerce, run its setup wizard, then configure your store details, products, payments, taxes, shipping and customer emails. Test checkout w…
WooCommerce can automatically send order, refund, review-request and some abandoned-cart emails from its own settings. For timed post-purchase sequenc…
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.