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 the pages and media, but a proper property directory needs structured listings, custom fields, filters, maps and enquiry forms. B…
Build the store with WordPress and WooCommerce, then shape the layout around categories, product archives and clear product information. You can do th…
You can build a WooCommerce eyewear store without a specialist plugin: use variable products for frame colours, sizes and lens options, global attribu…
You can build a basic online store with WordPress and the free WooCommerce plugin. Add products, configure payments, taxes, shipping, pages and emails…
Create the store with WooCommerce, then add jewellery products, configure variations, payments, tax and shipping, and run a test order. A general Word…
WooCommerce can handle a kids clothing and toy store without custom code. Set up categories, global attributes, variable products, stock, payments, ta…
You can create a pet store with the free WooCommerce plugin, a suitable WordPress theme and your product, payment, tax and shipping details. The manua…
You can build the layout with WordPress core using pages, blocks, templates and navigation. The manual route is fine for a small municipality, but eve…
WooCommerce does not create a multi-vendor marketplace on its own. Install a marketplace extension such as Product Vendors, Dokan or WC Vendors, then…
You can customize a WooCommerce store through the Site Editor on a block theme, or through Appearance > Customize on a classic theme. For deeper chang…
You can build a custom WordPress website without a page-builder plugin by choosing a suitable theme, creating your pages, setting the homepage, and ed…
WordPress manages revisions natively: open a post or page, compare saved versions, and restore the one you need. Use wp-config.php to limit storage, b…
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.