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 →You can create an organic farm website with WordPress blocks and a suitable theme; no page builder is required. Create pages for your farm, products,…
Create the shop with WooCommerce, add your beauty products and categories, then design the homepage, navigation and product pages with your theme or E…
You can create a product landing page by customising WooCommerce’s Single Product template, creating a product-specific template, or using a page buil…
Create a small WordPress site with a focused homepage, separate HVAC service pages, service-area information, reviews, contact details and a request-s…
You can customize a WordPress blog through Appearance > Editor for block themes or Appearance > Customize for classic themes. Use the built-in control…
You can design a colorful personal blog without a plugin by choosing a suitable theme, setting a small colour palette, adjusting typography, and arran…
You can create a magazine website in WordPress without a plugin by using categories, featured images, a static homepage, and Query Loop or theme layou…
WordPress can handle a straightforward photography portfolio without a plugin: upload your images, create project pages and add Gallery blocks with li…
You can create a minimal WordPress blog without a plugin: choose a simple theme, set your site identity, create a blog page, and keep the navigation s…
You can create an editorial magazine website with WordPress core by organising posts into categories and building the homepage with Query Loop blocks,…
You can create a content roundup without a plugin using WordPress blocks, headings, images and links. Build each item in a consistent layout, check ev…
Back up both your WordPress files and database, store copies away from the server, then restore the files before importing the database. The manual ro…
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.