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.
- Guides
- 28
- Steps written
- 154
- Tools compared
- 30
- Topics
- 12
Latest guides
All guides →You can create a small portfolio with WordPress pages and Elementor by building project pages, linking them from a grid and checking the mobile layout…
You can create a basic photography portfolio in WordPress without a plugin by combining Pages, the Media Library and the Gallery block. For masonry gr…
You can create the clinic website with WordPress pages, a block theme or Elementor, and a clear mobile-first layout. Add a booking plugin or external…
You can build a basic car dealer directory with WordPress custom post types, fields and taxonomies, but native WordPress does not provide vehicle filt…
You can build a basic intranet with WordPress, but WordPress alone does not provide a complete members-only network. You need access-control and colla…
WooCommerce does not provide a general conditional-content rule builder in its core settings. For one or two simple messages, add content with a WooCo…
WooCommerce does not provide colour, size, or image swatches in core; variable products use dropdowns by default. Create correctly configured attribut…
WooCommerce lets customers add a selected variation to the cart, but it does not provide a native single-form bulk order table for one variable produc…
WooCommerce now has an experimental wishlist feature, but it only works for logged-in shoppers using a block-based product template. For guest wishlis…
WooCommerce can hide selected products with its built-in catalog visibility settings, but it has no complete catalog-mode switch. To remove prices, pu…
A plain WordPress file link does not provide a reliable after-download email trigger. Use Download Monitor to record the download, then either connect…
You can customise a WordPress theme from the Site Editor or Customizer, depending on whether it is a block or classic theme. Use built-in design contr…
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.