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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 →You can collect testimonials manually by asking members for permission and creating approved testimonial posts, then display them with a category arch…
WordPress does not have a universal membership-to-Slack connection. You need a membership plugin that supports Slack or webhooks, or custom code that…
WordPress does not include an advanced form builder, so you need a form plugin first. Use its built-in conditional logic, validation, calculations and…
WordPress can organise uploads into year-and-month folders, but it has no built-in descriptive folder system for the Media Library. For a small librar…
To sync WordPress memberships with email lists, map each membership level to a list or tag, then either export members to CSV for occasional imports o…
WordPress does not protect files just because the download link is on a members-only page. Store files in a protected location and check membership on…
WordPress does not calculate membership sales tax by itself. Paid Memberships Pro can apply a simple state rate, but multi-jurisdiction tax needs Stri…
WordPress does not provide passwordless member login out of the box. You need a custom authentication plugin or a membership add-on that emails a shor…
WordPress cannot do this on its own. Your membership plugin must cancel the recurring payment while leaving the membership active until its next billi…
WordPress has users and roles, but no built-in system for one account to sponsor and manage several member accounts. You can track small groups manual…
Oxygen can design Gutenberg blocks and full pages, but Oxygen Classic requires its separate Oxygen Gutenberg plugin for this workflow. Create the layo…
You can plan content with a spreadsheet and schedule each finished post using WordPress’s built-in date and time controls. The manual route is fine fo…
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.