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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 →A car dealership website needs more than standard WordPress pages: you need structured vehicle listings, custom fields, search filters, individual veh…
WordPress does not provide a freelancer community, portfolio system or multi-vendor marketplace on its own. Assemble BuddyPress-style community featur…
WordPress does not include rental bookings in its core features, so you need a booking plugin or rental theme. Set up each property, availability rule…
Gravity Forms does not include anonymous front-end editing for completed submissions. You can build a secure, expiring token system with custom code,…
You can send event updates manually by building an upcoming-events list with Events Manager and copying it into each newsletter. For recurring campaig…
WooCommerce alone does not give vendors a frontend dashboard for managing products, orders, and store data. You can build one with custom account endp…
You need a marketplace or vendor-management plugin because WooCommerce alone does not calculate vendor commissions or send payouts. The manual route i…
Gravity Forms can organise long forms with Section fields and conditional logic, but it does not provide native click-to-collapse accordions. For real…
Gravity Forms 2.9 and later lets you add selectable images with its built-in Image Choice field. For older versions, product fields or more styled rad…
Gravity Forms does not include a dedicated front-end tooltip setting. Use a field description for simple contextual help, or add custom HTML, CSS and…
You can host Google Fonts locally by downloading the required WOFF2 files, defining them with CSS, and removing the original Google stylesheet. If you…
WordPress does not connect forms to accounting software by itself. Use a form plugin’s native accounting add-on, send submissions through an automatio…
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.